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Title: SNAKES Post by: L3Outdoors on April 25, 2009, 12:10:39 pm Three in a day and a night, It started yesterday before we went hunting. My next door neighbor came driving in my drive way asking me if I could come shoot a rattler out of her garden, then last night while hunting we had a FNG with us on his second trip with dogs came about six inches from stepping on a five foot rattler when I stopped him mid stride before he could put his foot down. Then this morning while I am trying to sleep after finishing hunting at 7am my female Pit Sahara is barking like crazy so I walk out side and Riddick and Sahara where looking a the back porch like it was on fire. There he was about four feet away from the dogs curled up rattling his head off on the back step of my concrete porch. This was less than a hour ago and as far as I can tell nether one got bit but I am watching them close for any signs of a bite. Lucky Lucky Lucky any way ya put it.
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: dabutcher on April 25, 2009, 12:58:53 pm i've had 2 water mocassins since all the rain we've had.... i have a feeling they're gonna be pretty bad this year. i've never had water mocassins at the house this early in the year, they're usually not around til mid-May or June.
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: L3Outdoors on April 25, 2009, 01:59:26 pm Every one of these snakes was killed around water. My neighbors snake was under the sprinkler, and the snake in the dog pin was very close to the water facet that was leaking a little, and the snake the new hunter almost stepped on was on a tank dam.
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: shawn on April 25, 2009, 02:52:07 pm yeah we've already seen a bunch out in the woods the past couple weeks, saw 1 today.
they make me wanna scream like a girl...lol Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: ESTEBAN_B on April 25, 2009, 07:33:51 pm got one this morning! it was curled up on my truck's rim (water mocassin) while making a hunt with some buds!
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: jdt on April 26, 2009, 08:13:51 pm yesterday my wife must have backed over a baby copperhead when going to work ... 10 feet from the house , it was flat and dead , we have small boys that aint afraid of nothin , i pray that god watches over them when i m not.
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: cantexduck on April 26, 2009, 08:18:06 pm I dont do snakes. No matter what kind it is, after I get done screaming like a girl, it is one dead snake.
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: TT on April 26, 2009, 09:36:28 pm i stepped on a 4ft rattler the other day huntin, 13 rattles and a button
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: McCoy on April 27, 2009, 08:57:44 am On weekend hunt in lone oak , tx found 4 wm and 1 cottonmouth inside of a 1000 yds stepped on cm never saw till my little brother damn near got bit it struck but miss thinking about sticking to the fields this summer! Wish it was in the 30's again!
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: dabutcher on April 27, 2009, 09:09:21 am i've had another water mocassin in the yard, and my wife says she saw a copper head by the carport but i didn't see it so i can't comment on that. i'm a little nervous about this year being i got 2 little ones running around.
i've killed all 3 of the water mocassins but i just ain't never seen em this thick around my house. the back patch is shredded and my yard is kept cut. i haven't had any mice or rat problems cause i bait outside for em... ??? anyone got any suggestions to keep em away?? Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: shawn on April 27, 2009, 11:25:51 am I've heard sulfur, but I've never used it because of the smell...lol
I may change my mind, I saw a snake by my back fence yesterday, and the day before my american bulldog killed a baby snake. They are bad this year. Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: watsonstephen on April 27, 2009, 11:42:04 am I have killed several water mocisons around my house this year and had one get up around the motor of my 4 wheeler. Seen alot of copperheads also. I have been wearing snake chaps in the woods.
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: Bump on April 27, 2009, 11:42:47 am Took my dogs a few weeks ago to get a vaccine for rattlesnakes. I have never had a problem but wanted to be safe.
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: TEXAS*MCH on April 27, 2009, 12:19:04 pm About having one crawl up in your four wheeler.. had a 3ft wm crawl up on top of my fan on my honda took me 3 hours to get him out lol it got pretty gamey
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: hoghunterswife on April 27, 2009, 10:28:10 pm take moth balls and blend them up then mix with sulfur and put around the house just puur like u would fire ant killer and that should keep them away.
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: hoghunter_1985 on April 27, 2009, 10:47:08 pm I sure hope all of y'all talking about snakes are in Texas! I'm in Oklahoma and I don't like snakes either but if my hunting partner caddo co. hog dog sees all y'all talking about how bad the snakes are I won't get him out of the house until there is snow on the ground. Ha ha but seriously I hope everyone and there dogs stay unbit!
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: UNDERDOG on April 27, 2009, 11:12:46 pm We had two bit on Sunday.....
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: mex on April 27, 2009, 11:21:00 pm If its on land its a rattlesnake and if its in water its a mocassin!Kill'em all!
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: jdt on April 28, 2009, 07:00:48 pm im in tennessee , i log with mules and have a portable sawmill . this mornin i went to saw some logs for my house and was struck at by a cotton mouth laying under a peice of bark . i felt it hit my leg and thouht i was bit , its teeth were hung in my britches grabbed it right behind the head and cut its head off then quickly pulled my pants up and looked at my calf . it was scratched and had a little venom on it but the skin wasnt broke . ive been in the woods my whole life and never had nothing like that happen . my wife is out of town , when she gets back shell have a little extra laundry to do .
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: L3Outdoors on April 28, 2009, 09:39:51 pm Just killed another one in the dog pin. Had bought the snake away today but had not put it out yet. Killed snake checked all dogs no bites again lucky lucky lucky, put out snake away as I was taking the dead snake out of the pin. I will say this 45 ACP snake shot is the cats meow. Shot the snake from 30 ft and it rolled him good.
Title: Re: SNAKES Post by: Boar Collector on April 28, 2009, 09:42:30 pm (http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww116/blaine64/MyPictures007-11.jpg)
Shot this one 2 nights ago. Put him up against the BB gun to see hoe big he was. |