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My property has it’s fair share of snakes. This time of the year, I don’t venture beyond cut grass without wearing snake boots.

Sometimes in the fields, pine thickets, and bottom lands the brush is so thick I can’t see the ground and since stuff is always slapping against the boots, it’s impossible to say whether it was a vine, limb, or snake.

Snakes do startle me, but they don’t scare me. Almost all the time, I’m able to identify the species unless they are running away and then it doesn’t matter. Those I identify as poisonous, I do kill. Not because they represent a danger to me necessarily, but they and their offspring would to visitors to the farm. For instance, I know to be careful around the wood pile and I do remind visitors often - this is a farm.

My dispatcher of choice is a 5 foot hickory stick. It doesn’t have to be reloaded. But yes, I carry a firearm too for those times I might be wrong.

The non-poisonous I consider to be beneficial. They are mostly hunters of vermin and I leave them alone to do their thing
I’m old enough to remember [graduated high school in ‘62] so I’ve heard about the procedure and have had numerous opportunities to do the Lash LaRue bullwhip thing, but taking the chance of grabbing an eastern diamondback by the tail never appealed to me when there were better, less risky ways to take its head off.

Like they say...there are old pilots and there are bold pilots but very few old, bold pilots. Same applies to snake handlers no matter how devout their faith.
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Originally posted by semiannualchick:
If you find one on your property, do you kill it or leave it alone?
Any snake I come across, gets a rake or axe across it's head/neck. Smiler

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If the snake is a pit viper he doesn't have a chance...I shoot him. If the snake is non-poisonous, I preserve him for the valuable service he performs. Non-poisonous snakes help control rats and mice, plus some kill and eat their poisonous cousins. My grandfather kept a king snake in his corn crib and once fired one of his hired help for killing that snake.

When I was a child I used to play with those little green grass snakes. They would stay is my shirt pocket.
i have a wife who doesn't like snakes.
it doesn't much matter whether or not i tell her they are non poisonious. if there is a snake in the yard, it has to die.

by choice, i'd pick the path that most seem to like.. kill the nasties, leave the friendlies alone.

if i ever hope to see my wife un-clothed again, i can't choose that option.
sorry, snake lovers, i'm a weak minded, dirty old man. risking the possibility of being put on the anti-nookie list isn't worth saving our of your little slithery friends.
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Originally posted by unclegus:
I have a nice hat band from the copperhead I caught and killed last year. The rascal was/is 46 inches long.


When I run across a poisonous snake, taking care of business isn’t a bifurcated process. I circumvent the capturing part and go straight for the kill.

46 inch hatband! Gus, you’ve a big head! No offense. Really! I’m not about to p.o. an AC guy this time of year. Nice hat band, I’ll bet. I used to have one from a canebreak rattler years ago.
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Originally posted by budsfarm:
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Originally posted by unclegus:
I have a nice hat band from the copperhead I caught and killed last year. The rascal was/is 46 inches long.


When I run across a poisonous snake, taking care of business isn’t a bifurcated process. I circumvent the capturing part and go straight for the kill.

46 inch hatband! Gus, you’ve a big head! No offense. Really! I’m not about to p.o. an AC guy this time of year. Nice hat band, I’ll bet. I used to have one from a canebreak rattler years ago.


It is wrapped around the hat with the head to the front and tail out the back
We came across a nearly 4 foot rattler this weekend in the mountains, I wanted to kill it but the folks that were with me convinced me to leave it be (I still wanted to kill it but went with the popular majority at the time). They said 'there are 100 more out there for each one you see'. I said 'if we kill it there will be one less.'

I - DONT - LIKE - SNAKES!

Jeepin'
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Originally posted by KISSFREEK2002:
I dont like spiders or snakes. One less is one more that cant breed and make more.


Just had to bring up spiders, didn’t you?

I went to the doctor today for 3 spider bites...one behind the left ear and two on my left jaw. Never felt a thing then, but I sure do now. Back of my neck and lower jaw feels like a bad crick. It must have happened yesterday when we were moving ladder stands so that a TVA cutting crew could expand the footprint of a power line right-of-way. I was watching for poison ivy/oak but somehow missed the spider[s]. Oh well, no snakes.

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