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Offline CptTrips

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Suprise!!!!
« on: August 09, 2009, 09:19:20 PM »
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I'm out at my property today and I bend over to pick up a small piece of ply and found this fella curled up underneath right at my feet.  Of course I'm not even wearing jeans and boots.  I'm tromping out in the brush in shorts and sandles like some goofball.  Its good to know thro that I can still move as fast as I did when I have a reason.  :rofl

Creepy thing is still squirming and rattling at me:


Starting my kill record:





Now before the PETA tards jump on me, I don't just go around killing every snake I see.  If I don't recognize the kind of snake, I'll just shoo it away.  But if its a rattle, or copperhead, or cottonmouth, its dead on sight.  No debate.

 :uhoh,
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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2009, 09:34:13 PM »
Nice kill.  Remember to eat it. :aok
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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2009, 09:36:41 PM »
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Offline Maverick

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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2009, 09:41:31 PM »
The snake wasn't rattling. It was singing "Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit!"
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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2009, 10:39:25 PM »
Quote from: USRanger on August 09, 2009, 09:34:13 PM
Nice kill.  Remember to eat it. :aok

Rofl.  Hooah!

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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2009, 10:43:29 PM »
Oh god, I hope McFarland or whatever his name was doesn't see this.
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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2009, 10:44:11 PM »
Oh man; PETA is gonna have you on every tub of yogurt for a year because of what you did to that poor snake.  :D
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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2009, 10:44:26 PM »
Turn it into a luxury condom and sell it on e-bay.

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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2009, 10:44:42 PM »
SNAKE KILLER!

























JK.  Yea, you got dam lucky there.  what species is that?  from the looks of the plants in the back round it looks like you are in the southwest.  so i am assuming that may be a diamondback.  
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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2009, 10:50:57 PM »
Quote from: oakranger on August 09, 2009, 10:44:42 PM
JK.  Yea, you got dam lucky there.  what species is that?  from the looks of the plants in the back round it looks like you are in the southwest.  so i am assuming that may be a diamondback.  

YEp.  In North Central Texas.  That is a Diamond-back rattle snake.  A young one, but still over 3ft.

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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2009, 10:59:27 PM »
Good lord man!  STAY INSIDE!!  :eek:
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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2009, 11:42:34 PM »
PETA is dumb, but I did read an interesting article about rattlesnakes and artificial selection.  Some species rattle more easily than others, and, obviously, humans tend to kill the ones that rattle more.  However, the species that don't rattle so easily are more frequently the ones that bite people, simply because of the lack of warning.  You don't have to be a scientist to understand that logic. :P
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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2009, 11:55:51 PM »
Quote from: AKWabbit on August 09, 2009, 09:19:20 PM
But if its a rattle, or copperhead, or cottonmouth, its dead on sight.  No debate.


Statements like this are one of the VERY few places where I can sympathize with animal rights groups. Killing a snake just because it's venomous is needless. Now if it's about to strike you, a family member, pet, etc. is one thing. You're defending yourself, that's fine.  If for whatever reason you like the taste of snake meat (I understand snake tastes a lot like chicken, never tried it myself, tho) and are out actually hunting them is ok, too. But seeing one sunning itself on a log thirty feet away is no reason to go grab a shotgun and start blasting just because it's there.
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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2009, 07:52:56 AM »
I can agree with Saxman but I understand the logic of people that kill snakes like that. It is the chance to take something out before it has a chance to get you that most people start with.

My oldest son was cutting the grass here the other day and saw something slithering out of the bushs that he said looked like a worm. I am about 100 feet away around the house with my 6 year old son and we are getting ready to start pulling some weeds out of flower beds....anyway my oldest comes running with something in his hand and yelling that he had caught a snake. At first all I saw was the body and yelled for him to drop it because from 20 feet away the coloring was just like a copperhead...which we have had all over our lawn. Anyway upon further investigation by me I see a ring just behind its head and then I know it is a Northern Ringneck (also very prevalent here) and tell him he got lucky because it wasn't venomous.
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Re: Suprise!!!!
« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2009, 08:49:49 AM »
Quote from: Reschke on August 10, 2009, 07:52:56 AM
Anyway upon further investigation by me I see a ring just behind its head and then I know it is a Northern Ringneck (also very prevalent here) and tell him he got lucky because it wasn't venomous.

Then again, he may have already known it wasn't. I knew how to tell the difference even between a coral snake and the mimics when I was six.
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