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First off, I'm working at a survey firm that my dad owns, and we were doing a boundary survey today.

 

It was pretty rough, nice and hot, and we were tromping back through the woods. We also have an office phone with one of those cameras built into it.

 

I was leading the other two guys through the woods and I stopped about a foot from a log. They asked me why I was stopping and started to walk past me. I told them to look and I pointed to a crack in the log. I took this picture with the phone.

 

 

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Turns out this was a cottonmouth, gaurding it's young that was in the log. Talk about freakin feisty... He knicked the ankle of my boot, when I stopped. I was the only one wearing snake boots too. I'm glad to know that they really work.

 

Those boys best be glad they got a dad-blame country boy leading them instead of some city-dwelling yankee. Or else they be dead!

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If I would have stumbled onto that thing I would have achieved a vertical leap worthy of record books then I would have smashed it with a log or rock. :lol:

General Lee 01 Senior Enthusiast

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I took this picture with the phone.

 

 

rhilton_cottonmouth.jpg

I can't read this post without thinking about those commercials with the Sprint PCS guy. :cool:

 

"Can you hear me n- OH SH*T!" :lol:

 

Pardon my ignorance/forgetfulness (Whatever you want to call it), but we don't have cottonmouths around here, are they poisonous?

The SPEEDY Senior Enthusiast

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Pardon my ignorance/forgetfulness (Whatever you want to call it), but we don't have cottonmouths around here, are they poisonous?

They are poisonous enough to kill you, and if I'm not mistaken they are a little aggresive.

 

That thing looks pretty big too. Any idea how long she was?

 

Last year at the deer lease in west/central Texas, I was in the work shop messing around and I heard a sound like a June Bug's wings buzzing down on the ground, so after a while I stopped what I was doing and looked down and there was a 12 inch rattle snake backed up against the work bench next to my foot. Couldn't have really hurt me cause I had boots on but it sure scared the crap out of me.

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I'd say it was about 3 to 3.5 feet long, hard to say, cause it was curled up.

 

This one was QUITE agressive, didn't want me or the other guys near it's log. As I said, knicked me on the ankle of my boot. (If any of you guys are wondering, LaCrosse snake boots really do protect against snakes :lol: )

 

Gave20, I doubt you would've done more than piss the snake off if you hit it with a log or a rock. As big as it was, it'd be like shooting a doberman with a paintball gun.

 

I had a blame machete, and was a little scared to get too close to it. Not to mention if I missed, bye-bye life. When you're a good 2 or 3 miles hike from the truck, it's best to make rational descisions :cool: I was jumpy the rest of the day!

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i used to do survey work and ive ran across all kinds of snakes ill never forget the time that i stepped over a log and there was a rattler between my legs and i froze the guy i was working with came up with a 38 and shot it and yes i actully pissed my pants then one time we got treed by a boar and the 38 did nothing to it we had to call the boss to come kill it

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That'll give you the shakes for the rest of the day for sure. We don't have C'mouths around here but I got bit by a 2ft copperhead when I was in high school and still have a scar on the back of my leg. I'm not afraid of snakes but I give the poisonous ones a wide berth.

 

I run into a timber rattler once or twice a year in the spring/summer months so I'm always on the lookout when I'm on foot in the woods or along creeks and rivers.

 

BTW Rhilton, that's a d**n good photo too. Quick thinking with the camera. :D That snake was doing her job and doing it right, wasn't she? Glad you didn't get nailed! :D

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