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Close call!! #6857501
04/28/20 03:00 PM
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8year old grandson in NC almost got bit in the face by a copperhead!! Luckily the snake missed!! So glad we don't have them here

Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857507
04/28/20 03:03 PM
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Rare for a snake to miss. Very lucky! (Or it was just a warning strike)

Last edited by beaverpeeler; 04/28/20 03:03 PM.

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Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857510
04/28/20 03:04 PM
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Those are some mean little SO...B’s! I’ll take Cottonmouths and Rattlesnakes over Copperheads any day! Glad he missed and your grandson didn’t take a hit.

Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857515
04/28/20 03:08 PM
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yup bad deal ,Guess you should go over and do a little exterminating


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Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857554
04/28/20 03:50 PM
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that boy must have mongoose like reflexes...glad it worked out

Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857574
04/28/20 04:23 PM
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Very lucky.


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Re: Close call!! [Re: Snowpa] #6857687
04/28/20 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Snowpa

yup bad deal ,Guess you should go over and do a little exterminating

I don't like nc, too long a drive too, hope they learn to watch for snakes.
A hit in the face kill a kid?

Re: Close call!! [Re: BillyTraps] #6857688
04/28/20 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by BillyTraps
that boy must have mongoose like reflexes...glad it worked out

He Maybe has never seen one in the wild

Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857706
04/28/20 06:52 PM
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Just talked to him on the video phone, he said it got about four inches from his face, he said it was a small one. So glad he didn't get hit, he was close to the ground looking at some ants

Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857867
04/28/20 09:37 PM
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I am sure glad he is Ok.
My eye picks up rattlesnakes but the only copperheads I've ever seen I dang near stepped on so I don't like them one bit


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Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857875
04/28/20 09:45 PM
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glad he's unhurt!

I grew up with copperheads.

only rarely heard of a timber rattlesnake.

where I live now... just the opposite!

Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857878
04/28/20 09:50 PM
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Glad it turned out good for the boy. Them copperheads got an attitude 24-7.

Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857879
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Some interesting facts and additional information.
Rattlesnake Statistics
Approximately 8,000 people a year are bit by venomous snakes in the U.S. 9-15 victims die. (FDA)
25% of adult rattlesnake bites are dry, with no venom injected. (Brown, 1997)
Rattlesnakes can only strike a distance equal to 1/2 their own length


Read more: https://www.desertusa.com/reptiles/rattlesnake-bites-spring.html#ixzz6Kxid86c2

Darn near stepped on a prairie rattler one time. Don't remember leaving the ground, but I landed about six foot away from where I was when I first saw it..

Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857882
04/28/20 09:56 PM
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Did you need a change in pants? Lol
Im so glad he wasn't hit, would it disfigure his face? Or kill him, hes a handsome lil devil

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I looked it up, rare to kill, but probably disfigurement, secondary infection, that would be bad on the face

Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857891
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every rattlesnake or cottonmouth ive ever run across just wanted away from me as fast as possible. copperheads wont run and will bite just because you got close enough. and they are the most camouflaged critter ive ever seen. About 2 years ago i started remaking a coyote set that had a possum in it and about halfway through i noticed a 2 foot copperhead start moving just enough i could see him. He had been there the whole time and i never noticed. Im usually really good at spotting snakes. I think i landed on top of the truck.


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Re: Close call!! [Re: Tactical.20] #6857943
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Lol dang id crap! Naseem was looking at some ants, probably kneeling down, and probably didn't see it til it missed his face, hes only eight years old, so lucky!!

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