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ACinSC 
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Posted: 10 Apr 2024 at 4:36pm |
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Saw 3 today from the seat of my D 15. Only one hung around for a picture. Favorite son should post the pic soon if anyone is interested. Thanks
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WeisAC2
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Posted: 10 Apr 2024 at 5:09pm |
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 10 Apr 2024 at 5:36pm |
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I don't mind snakes as long as they keep their distance. What kind is it? Normal to see them out like that?
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ACinSC
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Posted: 10 Apr 2024 at 5:47pm |
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Son thinks it's a copperhead. Pretty normal to see a few snakes at our place about this time of year. Two other ones were black snakes.
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Posted: 10 Apr 2024 at 5:52pm |
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Have only seen garter and bull snakes near me. Iowa has timber rattlers and are protected. Never seen one and won't mind if I never do
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Posted: 10 Apr 2024 at 6:10pm |
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Yeah that looks like a Copperhead to me too. We have them here too which we're not far from you guys in SC. We usually see rat snakes and king snakes around here. Won't hurt you but they can sure make you hurt yourself.
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ACinSC
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Posted: 10 Apr 2024 at 6:29pm |
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Yeah, we see a few timber rattlers too . Should add they have no protection around here, but we don't always kill them.
Edited by ACinSC - 10 Apr 2024 at 7:16pm
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Posted: 10 Apr 2024 at 8:14pm |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2024 at 9:26pm |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2024 at 4:39am |
Can't help but like America's storyteller... That reminds me of a dead snake I saw on the internet, some time ago...
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Posted: 11 Apr 2024 at 5:55am |
This picture of garter snakes was taken in my lawn a few years ago. I believe the result was more snakes...
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ACinSC
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Posted: 11 Apr 2024 at 6:49am |
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Few years back I was discing a road/firebreak. Got off the tractor. When I stepped down felt something hit my leg. I'd stepped down on a green snake 🐍 and he didn't like it. Glad it wasn't a rattlesnake.
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Posted: 11 Apr 2024 at 7:00am |
We were in the red rock area (Sedona) of Arizona a few years ago. Being uninformed (dumb) tourists we wandered out on some of the walking trails to explore.
Whan we were telling some locals about it, they asked if we had a snake bite kit. They said there are a lot of rattle snakes in those areas.
It was on that trip that I learned that one of the reasons cowboys were cowboy boots is to protect them from snake bites.
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ACinSC
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Posted: 11 Apr 2024 at 8:05am |
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Knew a guy that got hit by a rattlesnake. Snake didn't hurt him as he was wearing snake boots, but he twisted his ankle so bad he was laid up for a while.
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Posted: 11 Apr 2024 at 8:15am |
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We only get little brown wood snakes, garters, corn snakes, rat snakes, water snakes and a couple of racer species around here. Nothing venomous. Expert mousers. Nothing makes me smile like seeing a blue racers head sticking up out ofnthe grass with a mouse hanging out of it's mouth.
We have a rattler, the Eastern massasauga, but sightings are extremely rare, I have only ever seen one and it was a yearling, and I used to look for snakes as a kid because I've always thought they were cool.
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Posted: 11 Apr 2024 at 8:18am |
 ACinSC wrote:
Son thinks it's a copperhead. Pretty normal to see a few snakes at our place about this time of year. Two other ones were black snakes. |
Edit. Had to go look up copper heads. We don't get them around here. That is indeed a copperhead.
Edited by AC WD45 - 11 Apr 2024 at 8:21am
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 11 Apr 2024 at 8:52am |
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That's a copperhead and a pretty large one. With the weather getting warmer they are moving about and they are hard to spot in the brown leaves left over from the winter. We have plenty in our area also.
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Posted: 11 Apr 2024 at 3:21pm |
Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote:
That's a copperhead and a pretty large one. With the weather getting warmer they are moving about and they are hard to spot in the brown leaves left over from the winter. We have plenty in our area also. |
Yes definitely a copperhead. They’re a bit cranky when they first came me out for the spring.
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Posted: 11 Apr 2024 at 7:38pm |
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Had a pair of Copperheads tucked up under my rear tractor tire last year. Fortunately saw them before I stepped forward to get up on the tractor. They tend to have a short life expectancy after I see them, especially if anywhere near the house.
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Posted: 12 Apr 2024 at 9:33am |
The young copperhead will have a green tip on their tail. The venom of the young copperhead is more potent than the older copperhead.
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 12 Apr 2024 at 12:37pm |
Clay wrote:
The young copperhead will have a green tip on their tail. The venom of the young copperhead is more potent than the older copperhead.
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I have some ammo with green tips. It’s deadly too. 
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Posted: 12 Apr 2024 at 3:02pm |
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Im with Thad and Scott ..... shoot first ( or rake / hoe/ stick) and ask questions LATER !!
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Posted: 13 Apr 2024 at 1:06am |
Yep, definitely a copper head and YES, extremely rare up around this/our area. Wonder where he came from?? Yes, YOUNG snakes have a more potent venom than older snakes, but who cares?? I used to trap/collect rattlers eons ago when we could get (back in the 50s and 60s) $$$ from the county ag dept for the rattles off of em. They thought that you had to kill the snake to get the rattles, but noppppe.......cut em off, collect the $$$ and they''d grow back and you could do it again. Was a pretty lucrative business back in the day...
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