Taking out some brush and SNAKES with the B11 and Sarsquatch

[M67]

I would disagree that copperheads are usually found by water - they like rocky outcrops, at least up here...

I've found them in water before, usually sunning on the banks in the muck then swim off when they get startled (then BAM!! With a shotgun )

But, I've found them in rocky parts too (not that Indiana has a lot of rocky regions).

They'll go where the food is.

Now moccasins, yeah, I've only seen them in water. I've never even seen one ran over on the road.

 

[slight]

That just goes to prove why I should get a giant Busse: to protect myself from snakes and bears

 

[d762nato]

Nice blades man you really chopped down some brush in a hurry. Are you going to make some Mocassin stew.

 

[R0CKETMAN]

Wow, great pics. Looks deery too. Gotta love the B-11 and I hope you had on snake boots.

Well, copperheads like water and are usually found new bodies of water.

I would disagree that copperheads are usually found by water - they like rocky outcrops, at least up here...

I have seen/killed copperheads in various locations.

I agree with Trail and Lyon, found this one in my garage last summer. (I keep the door down at night).

 

[RedbeAR15]

Nice pics Lyontra! You need a job?

That's pretty impressive work especially in that Augusta heat.:thumbup:

 

[mymindisamob]

Great pics! I am a snake person and love them all, but mainly Constrictors of the larger variety. I have thinned Moc populations drastically though while living in the Southeast (I like my kids more than snakes). Some people claim they (Cottonmouth/Water Moc) are not aggressive, but I'm convinced they have never experienced them in person.

 

[Gravelface]

Well, copperheads like water and are usually found new bodies of water. Cottenmouths do not actually live in the water so I think you can classify them in the same group.
The other two venomous snakes in North America is the coral snake and the rattle snake.

I disagree wholeheartedly about this.....water moccasins habitat is mainly the water, so I would argue they do "live" there as most of their time is there and that is where you will find them. And copperheads, well I never ran into one in water as they are all over the forest. But this is my experience in Southern Louisiana.

 

[Ken44]

They are both vipers, but cottonmouths are known fish-eaters, where copperheads are not.

I would disagree that copperheads are usually found by water - they like rocky outcrops, at least up here...

This is true. I've been in this valley 26 years and have only seen a couple near the creek, or in the valley floor. I'm up off the floor on the rocky mountain, and see copperheads every year, and killed one on front steps just last week.
If you stack a pile of rock or concrete blocks around here there will be a copperhead there within a month. They don't need a large water source like a cottonmouth does.

Cottonmouths are very rare in this part of georgia, but the few that have been seen have always been in or right near the water.

 

[richstag]

I don't know much about snakes. I am in MD. I walk the woods in MD/PA regularly. I would say from my experience the copperheads like rocky areas.

The one time I was walking in the woods in SC, close to Georgia, where the OP is from, I saw QUITE A FEW moccasins. All of which were in water. There were wooden bridges that crossed streams (nature reserve). At each crossing when you looked down the streams were CRAWLING with moccasins. I would say they like water a lot more then the copperheads around these parts.

Just observational talk...is that a word??? lmao

okay spell check says it is, still not sure the sentence makes sense...

Anyhow, awesome pics!

Kevin

 

[Liu Kang]

I don't know much about snakes. I am in MD. I walk the woods in MD/PA regularly. I would say from my experience the copperheads like rocky areas.

The one time I was walking in the woods in SC, close to Georgia, where the OP is from, I saw QUITE A FEW moccasins. All of which were in water. There were wooden bridges that crossed streams (nature reserve). At each crossing when you looked down the streams were CRAWLING with moccasins. I would say they like water a lot more then the copperheads around these parts.

Just observational talk...is that a word??? lmao

okay spell check says it is, still not sure the sentence makes sense...

Anyhow, awesome pics!

Kevin

Are you sure they were not water snakes? You know that water moccasins are not up here in the northeast right? But there are quite a few watersnakes. I have caught plenty of them and kept them as pets before. They eat goldfish...

 

[richstag]

Dan, this was in SC, and it was a guided tour. The guide said they were. It was my only experience with them.

Around here all I see are the occasional copperheads, and really only when I go to PA. MD, mostly black snakes. I don't LOOK for them though, just look out for them.

 

[MikeH]

Rob; If you live in venemous snake territory, you learn to cope. My dad taught me how to watch for snakes well before I was five years old. The trick is that you don't walk while looking down right where you are stepping, you scan the trail about ten feet ahead. If the grass or the undergrowth prevents this, you use a walking staff of some kind to probe and warn off the snakes. It is true that they will avoid you if at all possible. I was five years old when I walked up alone on my first Rattlesnake, and I was indeed looking ahead far enough that I did not get in its strike range.

As for moccasins, you learn early to not run your boat up under vegetation overhanging the water's edge.

I still remember when, as a pre-teen, my best buddy and I picked up a cottonmouth in a minnow seine while wading a small creek. I believe we might have walked on water that day.

 

[lyontra]

Just for clarification I was at my parents land in central Alabama (30 mins west of Montgomery) when I took these pictures. Hope that helps for geographic location of the snake talk

 

[Flatsman007]

In south Louisiana here. I have to agree with Gravelface. Cottonmouths spend their life here oriented around water. The stripes you see are on juvenile snakes and they fade as they get older. To me they are quite harmless unless cornered or stepped on. The copper head to me is the most dangerous snake in the woods. In our area they like any high ground and they like to coil up and flatten out. They blend in well and are easy to step on. B11 sure gets the job done. Great pics.

 

[MikeH]

Just for clarification I was at my parents land in central Alabama (30 mins west of Montgomery) when I took these pictures. Hope that helps for geographic location of the snake talk

And all of my youthful snake experience was in central Alabama just east of Montgomery in Tallapoosa County.

 

[Green Recluse]

I know I won't be making friends here but more often than not if you leave a snake alone it will leave you alone. Kind of a shame they were just in your way. At least the INFI brought them to a quick end.

 

[Liu Kang]

I know I won't be making friends here but more often than not if you leave a snake alone it will leave you alone. Kind of a shame they were just in your way. At least the INFI brought them to a quick end.

I would have to agree, I have loved collecting snakes for such a long time. But I think lots of the deaths we hear about here is people killing them because it is too close to where people live. Well I would hope so. And it is true, if you read the stats, most people are bitten when they are trying to kill the snakes. They usually only attack when they feel they are in danger.

 

[slight]

they released some various poisonous snakes and mountain lions on the blue ridge parkway not too long ago. ive only seen one copperhead so far but i think the giant blacksnake in the barn keeps the other snakes away. We find his/or her shedd skin in the barns all the time. Im not a big fan of snakes but i dont mind tame ones and black snakes.

 

[lyontra]

Green Recluse- It's fine and you do make a very valid point. I only kill animals for meat unless there is a specific reason like coyotes or beavers. The exception is poisonous snakes. I just don't like them. One killed my dog when I was young and I have had a score to settle with them ever since then. The less poisonous snakes out where I am the happier I am and the less there are to crawl up towards the house near my family. However I don't kill non-poisonous ones. This one was easing his way across the road that same day and I just waited until he crossed and then headed on my way.

 

[Ian Allomes]

Rob; If you live in venemous snake territory, you learn to cope. My dad taught me how to watch for snakes well before I was five years old. The trick is that you don't walk while looking down right where you are stepping, you scan the trail about ten feet ahead.

Yep, What Mike says, look a bit ahead,
I've lived in snake country all my life and not had any problems. I've been bit once, but that was because I was fooling around with it. (Red Belly Black)

I did watch my mate pick up a Death Adder when we were kids, I don't think he really thought it was a snake, I think he thought it was a stick.
He was dead in eight minutes.

Love the pics.

I have a rule here with snakes, if they stay down around the creek I'll leave them alone. If they come up near the house they get a charge of #9 shot out of a 12ga.

I've had one dog killed by a snake (Western Brown) and one that survived (Blue Belly Black). Most of my dogs have developed a respect for snakes and generally keep away from them. I have had half a dozen horses killed by snake bite and many head of cattle. The horses get bit on the lips as they work their lips around, being selective eaters. Cattle generally always get bit on the tongue as they wrap their tongue around the grass while eating.
Ian.