Beautiful creature.

Prairie ?

… if so that is a biggin

Yes prairie. Close to Nebraska/ South Dakota border.

Looks like good coyote bait....

That's look real pretty on the back of a bow.

Gunsling on the hoof.

Moosetrot

Bang….Bang Bang Bang

Just kidding. I don’t mind snakes as long as I see them first. We have timber rattlers but they are extremely rare. One pops up in the county ever so often.

I caught and relocated 2 black snakes in the last week from my chicken coop.

That is a pretty snake. Me and a buddy were bird hunting the Rosebud Reservation (I think) and one of the dogs pointed. I walked up to the dog, expecting a bird to flush and a prairie rattler raises up and started rattling. I thought thats nice, gonna get me a nice skin. I killed that snake and didnt go ten ft and dog pointed another. We were in an old prairie dog town. It had come an early snow and then melted off and warmed up. There were one to five snakes around every prairie dog burrow. We ended up each carrying a dog under one arm and shotgun in another. A thousand wonders we werent all bit.