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Found a unicorn. #6668219
11/17/19 02:55 PM
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First one I've seen in this area.

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Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: warrior] #6668224
11/17/19 03:05 PM
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Cute little fella.


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Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: warrior] #6668225
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. [Re: Chuckles84] #6668230
11/17/19 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Chuckles84
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. [Re: warrior] #6668231
11/17/19 03:10 PM
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That one would be part of the most northernmost documented population in the state.


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Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: warrior] #6668255
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. [Re: warrior] #6668276
11/17/19 04:23 PM
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The main snake of our County it seems. See 5:1 on them vs rattlesnakes, and least in my County.

Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: warrior] #6668287
11/17/19 04:36 PM
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........ok so..... being from the frozen swamplands , I have to ask.
What type of snake is it, and why your posts title?


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Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: warrior] #6668299
11/17/19 04:49 PM
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It's a cottonmouth. Their natural range is mostly further South. They are rarer the farther North you go.

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Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: warrior] #6668303
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Would love to have that skin, it’s got wallet for wife written all over it.

Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: warrior] #6668315
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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.

Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: KeithC] #6668324
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Originally Posted by KeithC
It's a cottonmouth. Their natural range is mostly further South. They are rarer the farther North you go.

Keith

Thanks Keith!


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Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: warrior] #6668453
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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


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Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: warrior] #6668487
11/17/19 07:53 PM
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That map is incorrect for georgia. This one is more accurate. [Linked Image]

It was found at x. I live at o. Interesting geographical note. That line in front of my location is the divide between the Flint/Chattahoochee and Ocmulgee/Altamaha drainages. It's also the route of the old Atlanta/Macon rail line of Seige of Atlanta fame. Basically any water falling in my yard goes to the Atlantic anything falling across the tracks in front of me to the Gulf of Mexico. So theoretically I'll never see a moccasin on my property but the Methodist church across the tracks might. LOL


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Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: Wanna Be] #6668491
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
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. [Re: warrior] #6668523
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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. [Re: warrior] #6668528
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Originally Posted by warrior
Originally Posted by Chuckles84
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. [Re: warrior] #6668600
11/17/19 09:57 PM
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If you know the terrain of Georgia that map makes perfect sense. The areas in white are all up hill from the upper coastal plain. While it's pretty flat right out my front door it's definitely downhill towards the Flint or headed towards Macon. North of Atlanta is all uphill heading into the southern Appalachians.
The area to the west is the Coosa/Tallapoosa drainage between the Talladega range and the Cusseta in North Georgia.


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Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: warrior] #6668656
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Hopefully we don't have them in Virginia in the blue Ridge mountains.


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Re: Found a unicorn. [Re: run] #6668658
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Originally Posted by run
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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