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cool rattlesnake pic

Good pics, those mojave greens arent to be messed with! Awesome creatures, but dangerous.
 
Copperheads started coming in our plant down here in Arkansas. I think they are beautiful creatures!!!!
 
Wait til; one of them 'pretty' copperheads goes off on your A$$, the belt your buddies make out of it will be 'beautiful', your hospital bill not so much! There must be a whole lotta vermin in 'your plant' if they are coming inside to feed and find shelter.
 
1Tracker said:
Wait til; one of them 'pretty' copperheads goes off on your A$$, the belt your buddies make out of it will be 'beautiful', your hospital bill not so much! There must be a whole lotta vermin in 'your plant' if they are coming inside to feed and find shelter.
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I've found Copperheads pretty docile. I use to hunt rattlesnakes for $$ when I was in highschool (secretary use to make belts, hat bands and ear-rings from the rattlers); they were actually all non-aggressive until I started messing with them. Now, the water moccasins I've run across in GA and FL have all been mean bastards:eek:

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I've actually seen just the opposite. The cottonmouths will gape like crazy, but copperheads can vary, most thought are hopping off the ground mad when we come up to them.
 
Since there is sagebrush visible in the picture, it was probably close to Owens Valley. The trailhead to climb Whitney from Whitney Portal (the shortest route to the summit, only 11 miles one way) starts at 8360' and I don't recall seeing sagebrush there, although it is possible. I doubt it was taken above about 9500' (the first part of the trail is on a warm, dry slope), and note that he says he only climbed to 10,000'. Besides, if this picture was taken this week, it has been cold still up that high (solid snow cover reported from about 10,000 feet by someone who was there April 17). So the snakes wouldn't be out at that elevation yet.
 
Breeding season for the Copperheads. They are not a one bite and your dead snake unless your allergic to the venom. Will really mess up the tissue and muscle though. Most are caught and thrown back out.
 
Nice pic HD. I've never come across a rattlesnake in the wild. In Louisianna we came across a lot of Water Moccasins and Copperheads though.
 
Nice pix. Thanks! Behind our house, on the ridge, we have two Timber Rattlesnake dens. That's sacred ground.
 
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