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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410185
05/27/25 08:07 PM
05/27/25 08:07 PM
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Had a rattler strike my snake guards in San Angelo Texas turkey hunting last thing he did 16 rattles on him guess it was a good one

Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410188
05/27/25 08:13 PM
05/27/25 08:13 PM
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In my younger days i worked as a ranch hand in Montana, the ranch owner and i went to town for a haircut and some shoes
for a couple horses. For whatever reason we took his wife car,and a rattlesnake was sunning itself on the gravel road,
so he hit the brakes and slid over that snake. we got out of the car,and i pick it up and put it in the trunk.The local bar had
a contest for the most rattles ( a sixpack for the week,and a case for the month)!
So anyway we stopped @ the bar and opened the trunk up and was the snake all coiled and buzzing.
I took a tire iron,and made sure it never buzzed again.
I believe that snake had 13 and a button! ( we won the sixpack)


jarentz
Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: jarentz] #8410189
05/27/25 08:17 PM
05/27/25 08:17 PM
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Coldspring Texas
Savell Offline OP
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Originally Posted by jarentz
In my younger days i worked as a ranch hand in Montana, the ranch owner and i went to town for a haircut and some shoes
for a couple horses. For whatever reason we took his wife car,and a rattlesnake was sunning itself on the gravel road,
so he hit the brakes and slid over that snake. we got out of the car,and i pick it up and put it in the trunk.The local bar had
a contest for the most rattles ( a sixpack for the week,and a case for the month)!
So anyway we stopped @ the bar and opened the trunk up and was the snake all coiled and buzzing.
I took a tire iron,and made sure it never buzzed again.
I believe that snake had 13 and a button! ( we won the sixpack)


… good clean livin right there


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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410193
05/27/25 08:24 PM
05/27/25 08:24 PM
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Mine has got me in trouble a time or too……

Dang thing like to get out of its kennel and frighten people.


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just put your ear to the ground , and follow along

Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Vinke] #8410214
05/27/25 09:16 PM
05/27/25 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Vinke
Mine has got me in trouble a time or too……

Dang thing like to get out of its kennel and frighten people.

You say the goofiest (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman). I bet you’re a ton of fun to shoot whiskey with lol. If you ever find yourself in SE Alaska, let me know

Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410216
05/27/25 09:25 PM
05/27/25 09:25 PM
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Back in the 70s, my brother and I were fishing for native brook trout. He was walking ten feet in front of me, he stepped right over top of a timber rattler on the trail. I saw it, a few feet in front of me. Never rattled.

In the early 80s, in the same area in north central Pa ( Cameron County ) I went trout fishing on a July afternoon. At the end of the day, when I took off my hip boots, there was a snake fang stuck in rubber, half way between my ankle and knee. Never saw or heard the rattlesnake.

Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410225
05/27/25 09:43 PM
05/27/25 09:43 PM
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I have had a few over the years out West but the closest was in West Texas near Del Rio. We had flown to a fire and I rolled on my back under the skid on the helicopter to hook up the Bambi bucket and was about 12 inches from a large and angry rattler. I had another snake of some sorts drop out of a PJ in Utah on the top of my pack. I sure shucked that pack in a hurry!


I have nothing clever to put here.





Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410232
05/27/25 09:52 PM
05/27/25 09:52 PM
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Many of my venomous snake stories (and there are many) involve a dead snake. The snake would have to talk for ya'll to hear a truly exciting story.

I sent several nice timber rattlers to GritGuy a few years ago. Those were the ones I had time to skin. BTW...Nice trade GG!

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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410235
05/27/25 09:56 PM
05/27/25 09:56 PM
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Here's a few that I still had the pics of on this phone...for viewing pleasure...

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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410248
05/27/25 10:16 PM
05/27/25 10:16 PM
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…. Yall got a pretty timber over that way Swamp

… aside from the cotton mouth inches from my face … the second scariest was froggiggin… I shined two big bulls from the road … couldn’t walk over to them on land due to switch cane so slipped down into the slough … as I passed a spot that jutted out from beaver stacking limbs.. I heard something… shined the light just as a cottonmouth slid off directly into my crotch … stood real still as it slithered between my legs

… after it passed through I eased on and got both those frogs


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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410249
05/27/25 10:20 PM
05/27/25 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Savell
…. Yall got a pretty timber over that way Swamp

… aside from the cotton mouth inches from my face … the second scariest was froggiggin… I shined two big bulls from the road … couldn’t walk over to them on land due to switch cane so slipped down into the slough … as I passed a spot that jutted out from beaver stacking limbs.. I heard something… shined the light just as a cottonmouth slid off directly into my crotch … stood real still as it slithered between my legs

… after it passed through I eased on and got both those frogs

Nerves of steel!!!


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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410253
05/27/25 10:24 PM
05/27/25 10:24 PM
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… figure if you’re still you got less of a chance to stir them up and have them aggressive… worked in both situations

… also got hit on the hand by a copperhead strike … but was just a glancing blow as I pulled my hand back … he didn’t get a fang in me


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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410254
05/27/25 10:28 PM
05/27/25 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Savell
… figure if you’re still you got less of a chance to stir them up and have them aggressive… worked in both situations

… also got hit on the hand by a copperhead strike … but was just a glancing blow as I pulled my hand back … he didn’t get a fang in me

No copperheads here at the Ga-Fl line, but a couple counties north there are some. Further you go north...the more copperheads. Not sure why they're not here.

We have 3 rattlers, the cottonmouth, and the coral snake.


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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410255
05/27/25 10:31 PM
05/27/25 10:31 PM
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Cutting a big pine close to a power line and had a big copperhead crawl out of the pine straw between my feet. I was at that point where I couldn't leave the saw or the tree would of went into the power line. Luckily it kept crawling and I was able to get the tree on the ground. He didn't survive the encounter. I have a lot of respect for copperheads. My great grandmother died from a copperhead bite.
Had lots of close calls with cottonmouths while beaver trapping. Running traps off nights one morning and almost grabbed one by mistake thinking it was a stick until it moved. Started bringing a better headlight with me after that.


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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410258
05/27/25 10:32 PM
05/27/25 10:32 PM
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… got a lot of corals here …. Luckily it’s hard to get bit by them

… I’ll kill them in my house slippers lol

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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410259
05/27/25 10:35 PM
05/27/25 10:35 PM
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Had this guy crawl out of the weeds just after I had set a couple of beaver traps on each side of the break.


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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410270
05/27/25 10:46 PM
05/27/25 10:46 PM
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Have a cousin that worked in a coal mine. Once a month they would have a cookout for the birthdays that month. They always cooked as much exotic stuff they could get. One guy brought a huge rattler and they cut his head off and after he quit squirming they laid him out on a table and was getting ready to skin him, then the guy that brought the snake said he wanted those rattles. He took a knife and just touched it to the rattles and that snake instantly came back and struck him in the face. The guy said knowing they had cut the head off it still scared him bad. If a guy has a weak heart, bit or not it could still kill ya, lol.

Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410273
05/27/25 10:50 PM
05/27/25 10:50 PM
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Lmao …. Good story foxpaw


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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410290
05/27/25 11:48 PM
05/27/25 11:48 PM
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Lufkin …. You ain’t got any snake stories?


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Re: Close Call Snake Bite Stories [Re: Savell] #8410297
05/28/25 12:06 AM
05/28/25 12:06 AM
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…. You went and got too good to talk to people a little south of the trinity or what ?


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