Got the crap scared out of me!

Sean Cochran

Sean Cochran

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So I was on the pipe rack today (I work in the oil and gas fields) looked down by my foot and saw this. :eek:
24" copperhead. I hate to kill anything but it was him or me.
 

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Yikes!

So, do you make any cable damascus blades? I wish I would have known I was going to be making knives when I was working the floor.
 
Oh, Yeah! Kill a harmless copperhead ( no one has been killed by a copperhead in over 50 years).....When your oil rig is over-run with field mice , don't come crying to me.:D

When I used to catch and sell poisonous snakes ,I wasn't afraid of them at all, but when one surprises you....all normal reactions are shit to the wind.:eek:
Stacy
 
I was bit by a copperhead about 15 years ago and the doctor didnt even give me anti venom, but still damn near gave me a heart attack. I got bit by a japanese hornet and my leg damn near fell off tho, I am still deathly afraid of snakes, even the ones that are harmless. I would seriously hurt myself trying to get away from one!
 
I've killed 3 rattle snakes in my yard this summer. I leave the non venomous ones alone but my Golden Retrievers are like my kids and the damn rattlers have to go.
 
A while back when visiting my grandparents in North Texas, my grandfather showed us a snake he had killed. He said he wasn't sure what kind it was and wanted me to take a look.

He found the snake while on his hands and knees, using his arms to scoop out dead leaves under his shrubs. He took a scoop, saw and felt a movement, and then found himself staring at the snake. :eek:

Turns out it was one of the largest northern black tip rattle snakes I've ever seen at just a bit over 4 feet and nice and thick (average size for these is 3-3.5 feet). He's a blessed man for sure, and I'm not sure how he didn't get struck. At 80 years old, that would have been a tough one to bounce back from, most likely.

While we're on the subject, I thought this picture might give some a good case of the willies:

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Having a hard time seeing it? :confused: Let's take a closer look:

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Every year in Sweetwater, they have an annual rattlesnake roundup. In the 51 years it's run, there have been over 123 TONS of snakes processed. The last several years they've averaged between 5000 and 6000 pounds of snakes. A number of years back, some yankee ecologists about busted a nut when they heard about how many snakes were getting killed. They threw a hissy about how it was destroying the rattlesnake population in the region. Of course, then they did a survey and found that it wasn't even putting a dent in the population. I want to say a fraction of one percent of the population were getting caught each year and were easily being replaced the next year with a growing population. There's just a few more snakes around the Abilene area than they thought. :)

--nathan
 
Stacy,
Yeah, yeah, yeah I know "...its more afraid of you than you are of it":)

I did hate to kill it, I dont like to kill anything that Im not going to eat. Snakes are very beneficial, my grandpa used to catch blacksnakes and put them in the corn crib of his barn to keep mice out of the feed. But this one did scare the shit out of me, just didnt know he was there.


Silver
That is a shit load of snakes! There is a little mom and pop store out in the country not to far from here, they have a pic in the store of the hill behind their house with about 20 timber rattlers piled up on a large rock.
 
And now I know why I work deep water. Of course if we have to abandon we've got sharks and barricuda's.:D
 
Sam, all snakes are protected in NY so it's SSS.
I once told my GF to just check the eyes .Safe ones have round pupils, poison ones have vertical slit.She said she wasn't about to get that close.
 
We have a little swamp rattler about 40 or 50 miles southwest of here called a
massauga and a few timber rattlers around Lacrosse on the Mississippi, and I can
assure you I'd much rather be in a cave full of bears than that snakepit
Ken.
 
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