Is this a bad one or a good one?

trottman

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This little sob was hidding under that log when i went to pick it up. Scared the **** out of me when i saw he curled up there. So i popped him in the head with a 22 pistol.

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It's a copperhead.

They'll definitely scare you when you come up on them unexpectedly and they are venomous.

There are no reported deaths in Missouri EVER from a Copperhead bite.

I typically move them along when I see them. I only kill ticks and mosquitos.:D
 
copperheads are good... all snakes are good.. I just dont want them around me... Im sure they eat frogs, mice, rodents, alligators, deer, elephants, and small children.
 
TTrottman your posts while few and far between only get better with time.

Bong story

Hospital Story

Snake story

the list is endless
 
Dude...Trottie...Listen to me...If only now...


All snakes are bad however next time, we'll take a kimber stainless II .45 to get them. Snakes freak me out and we need to get rid of all of them. Did I say snakes freak me out :D
 
bummer you shot it

solid snake though

Ive been looking for copperheads since I moved here and haven't seen one yet
 
Any river you should find some this summer Leighton. That is, if you don't go back for the summers. Meramac I see them every year, along with the huzah (sp). Most ponds with high grass should have some too. Take a drive out to Troy and go down one of the country roads. Almost every property there has a pond for their cows.
 
they are all over around me. no water, just bluffs. I shot this one, because it scared me and wouldnt move even after i prodded it with a stick. I acctually touched it when i went to pick up the log, that scared the **** out of me too. I think it liked being nesseled up in those long wood shavings that i made when i was too lazy to spilt wood with the splitting maul. i never knew a saw could make shavings like that till i cut the logs going with the grain not against it.

This is by far the biggest one i have seen in my area. most are only a foot long and skinny. this one is a good 2 feet mabe 2 and 1/2 feet long and fat.
 
He didn't move, and he was under the log because it is still too cold for them. They are just now getting out of hibernation. More than likely you could have picked it up with your lips and it probably wouldn't have so much as blinked. It doesn't mean you should though of course:)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12478683#post12478683 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Chelsey
Unfortunately banded water snakes are frequently assumed to be copperheads...they are not. I'm hoping that you are not thinking that these are the copperheads Paul :)

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Here's a google link to more pictures:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Nerodia sipedon sipedon&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

They do vary in color quite a bit.

My apologies if I'm mistaken Paul :)

Did I mention snakes freak me out :lol:
 
We should have pizza night at my house. I have a 6 foot red tail boa. I had a Green Tree python for a while too.
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Here is my Red Tail
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Definitely a copperhead. I have almost sat on them many times while fishing the Mississippi River:lol:

I would not have killed it though, just moved it along like Capo said, they do serve a purpose.

As for Paul's comments, I think he is confusing the water snake with the copperhead too;)
 

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