Re: Close call!!
[Re: Tactical.20]
#6857507
04/28/20 03:03 PM
04/28/20 03:03 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,005 Oregon
beaverpeeler
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,005
Oregon
|
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.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
|
|
|
Re: Close call!!
[Re: Tactical.20]
#6857515
04/28/20 03:08 PM
04/28/20 03:08 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 3,001 USA MN
Snowpa
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 3,001
USA MN
|
yup bad deal ,Guess you should go over and do a little exterminating
Never Confuse Stupid With Crazy
|
|
|
Re: Close call!!
[Re: Snowpa]
#6857687
04/28/20 06:31 PM
04/28/20 06:31 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,770 N.W. Iowa
Tactical.20
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,770
N.W. Iowa
|
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
04/28/20 06:32 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,770 N.W. Iowa
Tactical.20
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,770
N.W. Iowa
|
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]
#6857867
04/28/20 09:37 PM
04/28/20 09:37 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,241 The Hill Country of Texas
Leftlane
"HOSS"
|
"HOSS"
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,241
The Hill Country of Texas
|
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
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
|
|
|
Re: Close call!!
[Re: Tactical.20]
#6857879
04/28/20 09:52 PM
04/28/20 09:52 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 763 NW Oregon
remrogers
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 763
NW Oregon
|
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#ixzz6Kxid86c2Darn 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]
#6857891
04/28/20 10:04 PM
04/28/20 10:04 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 4,738 carolina, Alabama
The Possum Man
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 4,738
carolina, Alabama
|
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.
"If you're gonna be stupid you better be tough"
|
|
|
|
|