Re: Found a unicorn.
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11/17/19 03:05 PM
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I would put him in the past tense real quick and in a hurry.
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Re: Found a unicorn.
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11/17/19 03:09 PM
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I would put him in the past tense real quick and in a hurry. Nope, I just hooked and moved him off to the side. JMO but I can think of no reason, well maybe to eat, to kill a snake of any type. Not when they are easily moved out of harms way.
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Re: Found a unicorn.
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11/17/19 03:50 PM
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I grew up in Nevada on ranches and farms, from little on we were taught that you’re obligated to kill every rattlesnake we found. Reason being we had a lot of kids and dogs running around and the nearest hospital with antivenom was a good two or three hours away if you can get to the highway right away and drive fast
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Re: Found a unicorn.
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11/17/19 04:51 PM
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Would love to have that skin, it’s got wallet for wife written all over it.
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Re: Found a unicorn.
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11/17/19 07:20 PM
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A range map (and a whole lot more information) on a "cottonmouth". I don't like the projection of the map (should use Albers instead of Geographic for CONUS maps) But I didn't make it. Interesting that the most northern part of their range is in the central U.S. https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?SpeciesID=1197
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: Found a unicorn.
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11/17/19 07:59 PM
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They are fairly docile and open their white mouthes (cottonmouth) to ward off danger or tell you to back away. The nonvenomous water snake everyone confuses them with are the curious ones that everyone thinks is out to get them. I’m in SWGA...both are very common down here. Only been struck at twice and once was a cottonmouth I never saw. He struck and hauled tail to cover. It was my stupidity for not expecting one in a ragweed field. One of the reasons I wear snake boots until we have several hard freezes...which isn’t too often. This one most certainly was. I had already passed by less than a couple feet. I spotted it on the return trip. It waited patiently for me to retrieve my camera and snake stick. Never once offered to coil or bluff strike. Even calmly rode the hook when I moved it off the trail.
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Re: Found a unicorn.
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11/17/19 08:39 PM
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Odd, I never would have thought anywhere in GA would be too far north for them. There are plenty in north Arkansas anyway.
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Re: Found a unicorn.
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11/17/19 08:42 PM
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I would put him in the past tense real quick and in a hurry. Nope, I just hooked and moved him off to the side. JMO but I can think of no reason, well maybe to eat, to kill a snake of any type. Not when they are easily moved out of harms way. I would never kill a non venomous snake, in fact I like to catch them and take them up to people who dont like snakes. Poisonous snakes are another thing, I wouldnt hesitate to put one in the past tense.
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Re: Found a unicorn.
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11/17/19 11:01 PM
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Hopefully we don't have them in Virginia in the blue Ridge mountains. To the best of my knowledge only the extreme southeastern portion of your state. Moccasins are a snake of slow moving swamps. They don't do fast, cold mountain waters.
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