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re: snake id (almost stepped on it)
Posted on 5/14/13 at 9:49 pm to ISmellMischief
Posted on 5/14/13 at 9:49 pm to ISmellMischief
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You are lucky in a way. Those critters usually live close to a friend. Quite often there will be two of them in the area. I have heard of several snakes that live in pairs.
fml there are more?
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 9:52 pm to oleyeller
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fml there are more?
Yeah. I've always heard that for every one you see there are a hundred more you don't.
Sleep tight.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 10:03 pm to SmackoverHawg
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Yeah. I've always heard that for every one you see there are a hundred more you don't.
Sleep tight.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 10:13 pm to faxis
quote:I would have shite all over myself.
Being almost invisible I didn't spot one till I almost stepped on it, then I started looking around and they were all around me. At my feet. On the walls at eye level. Above me. I like to had a nervous goddamned breakdown walking out of the woods after that.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 10:30 pm to USMCTiger03
Yeah hate to tell you this copperheads usually travel in pairs
Posted on 5/14/13 at 10:45 pm to JAB528
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Copperhead
Pretty one, too.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 10:47 pm to faxis
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Most of the one's I've encountered in my life have been ALMOST stepping on them.
You often smell them well before you see them
Posted on 5/14/13 at 11:09 pm to Jester
That is not a sense I normally depend on when I'm looking for snakes.
I know what you're talking about because I've smelled it as well with cottonmouths, but I have never spotted one based on smell.
I know what you're talking about because I've smelled it as well with cottonmouths, but I have never spotted one based on smell.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 11:11 pm to faxis
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have never spotted one based on smell.
But I have smelled myself after I spotted one.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 11:15 pm to oleyeller
Man, that aint nothing but a little ole corn snake. Damn vaginas up in here. 
Next question, I'm assuming you picked a pic off the interwebs that looked similar to the one you just killed.
Next question, I'm assuming you picked a pic off the interwebs that looked similar to the one you just killed.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 11:20 pm to faxis
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I know what you're talking about because I've smelled it as well with cottonmouths, but I have never spotted one based on smell.
I have heard this but I'm very skeptical. I've been down wind of many cotton-mouths and never caught the odor.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 11:23 pm to Child of the Missip
I can smell cottonmouths and gators a long way off.
Posted on 5/14/13 at 11:26 pm to Child of the Missip
In my experience they don't stink till you piss them off.
Posted on 5/15/13 at 12:00 am to faxis
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I got trapped in a creek bottom with over a half dozen of those things around me with nothing but a bow. Was bow hunting and slipping down this dry creek bed and apparently they were having a goddamned orgy in it. Being almost invisible I didn't spot one till I almost stepped on it, then I started looking around and they were all around me. At my feet. On the walls at eye level. Above me. I like to had a nervous goddamned breakdown walking out of the woods after that.
I laughed b/c it happened to you, but frick a snake.
Posted on 5/15/13 at 12:15 am to brass2mouth
Dude that was one of those moments in nature where you find out who you really are.
I was alone. I had no gun. Was illegal back then to take a snake gun when bow hunting. And I had them both in front of me, and behind me. And I had no clue how deep they were because copperheads are damn near invisible in hardwood forests.
I moved REALLY, REALLY fricking slow getting out of there. Didn't kill any of them because it would have been a waste of time. I just needed to get the frick away.
I was alone. I had no gun. Was illegal back then to take a snake gun when bow hunting. And I had them both in front of me, and behind me. And I had no clue how deep they were because copperheads are damn near invisible in hardwood forests.
I moved REALLY, REALLY fricking slow getting out of there. Didn't kill any of them because it would have been a waste of time. I just needed to get the frick away.
Posted on 5/15/13 at 7:46 am to faxis
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In my experience they don't stink till you piss them off.
Not exactly pissed off, but close. The musk is a defense mechanism, so it definitely gets stronger when they are approached.
Posted on 5/15/13 at 7:47 am to faxis
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I moved REALLY, REALLY fricking slow getting out of there. Didn't kill any of them because it would have been a waste of time. I just needed to get the frick away.
Last time you've been within 100 yards of that spot?
Posted on 5/15/13 at 7:59 am to oleyeller
You should have skinned him out. That one would have made a nice belt or guitar strap.
Also, evidently this board is full of a bunch of pansies.
Also, evidently this board is full of a bunch of pansies.
Posted on 5/15/13 at 8:01 am to faxis
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got trapped in a creek bottom with over a half dozen of those things around me with nothing but a bow. Was bow hunting and slipping down this dry creek bed and apparently they were having a goddamned orgy in it. Being almost invisible I didn't spot one till I almost stepped on it, then I started looking around and they were all around me. At my feet. On the walls at eye level. Above me. I like to had a nervous goddamned breakdown walking out of the woods after that.
This is what nightmares are made of.
Posted on 5/15/13 at 8:11 am to oleyeller
copplehead (as a guy I used to work with would say)
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