Snakes Are Out!

Got all over a big fat cottonmouth today!

Global warming.

That sucks! Glad I live in Michigan. LOL

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Yeah with temps in the high 70’s and 80’s this week I expect to see a few. Went back to snake boots just in case.

Got this one early last week and killed a water moccasin Christmas Eve. Our Boykin Spaniel ran right past the moccasin. It was a little cooler then.

Still beats the snow.

Pretty early!!!

I knew I liked snow for a reason , snakes and mosquitoes thats my reason

Spotted this one just before Christmas. First I've seen in this area. I'm about as far north as they occur in Georgia.

Lol....I can take care of snakes.Hard to stop the cold weather and snow.

No way Josè.

No snakes here man!

I'll take 50 below and 3 feet of snow any day! You can have them things

No snakes either here in Maine.I would much rather have the snakes.I lived in Virginia for 8 years and had the snakes there.

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The older I get the more I hate winter and cold.My joints hurt more and more every year.Got it all set up so starting next winter will be in northern Florida hunting with side trips to Kansas and Arizonia.

Sounds Nice!

I am with you. I would drastically have to change my walking habits in the southern woods. Right now never give it a 2nd thought of stepping over a stone wall or log.

I have no desire trap in the vicinity of snakes. Worried about rattlesnakes if I decide to go on antelope hunt.

I'll keep the deep snow and below zero temps and you keep the snakes.

At six below they don't scare me much. They are moving real ssssllllooooowwww.

Snakes = $$$$$

you guys don't have blue eyed snow snakes? they are white and stay under the snow with just those blue eyes showing above it

We always had to take a shot of Jack or whatever for snow snake repellant at deer camp ! Got to watch out for snow snakes !!!

They can not move around under ice and must lie on top of it. Get bit and your blood will freeze and you will die within minutes

Thats it...done under icn"

Not real

Any of you guys ever skin the snakes? We usta' skin whatever ones died in the zoo, home tanned them with alum and sold them in the gift shop. Got $50.00 for 3 to 4 foot rattlesnakes and they often sold in one day. Little less for copperheads, watersnakes and any other snake that had a design. Solid color snakes brought less but still over $25.00. and this was pre-1990 dollars. Eric

Thats a pretty cool gig
I skinned a couple prarie rattlesnakes I killed out west as a kid. One had young...made some cool.paperweights.

I made this hat band some years ago. Hat is beaver and holding up pretty good too. A few stains on it.

The snake skin was tanned with that orange bottle trappers tanning formula. About ten years ago the rattles fell off but superglue has been working since then. Haven't had to re-glue them. After I sewed it into a loop for the band, I sprayed it lightly with polyurethane. Scales are still not falling off if anybody else wants to do it

I am too scared of those cold weather snow snakes to do one of them.

Really nice band Danny! Good work!

Sure could use 2 matched copperhead skins for bow backing! I'll pay!
We're lucky here- arsenic from smelting ore is all throughout the soul. Kills rattlesnakes. I'd WAAAYYYY rather have the arsenic than the rattlesnakes, and as a plus, yer kids have two heads when born- so much more to love.

Snicker...Have the doc throw in an extra stitch or three.

I tanned some rattle snakes while living in Virginia.

Look at that snake. It take some doing to get me in woods were them nasty things are at, are they aggresive ? I am thinking they are, water snakes are

I'm with you Pete I'll take the snow any day.

Moccasins are not aggressive. More of a don't give a crap attitude.

nope, I can always dress warmer and prep for snow, but humidity/heat/snakes/chiggers are the scourge of the south to me.

It's not simply dressing warmer the arthritis in my joints can't take the cold like I used to be able to.My body needs the heat and I feel awesome.

We harvest the nice ones, tan them and sell them to a Native American gentleman who makes the coolest knives up in the Dakotas.

Exactly, when he shows you his namesake just back on off and he will to.

yea they're not aggressive at all when your jumping up and down on top of them, haha.

Didn't see any snakes there today but saw two of the biggest red fox ive ever seen in my life there today going across the beaver dam, odd
site for down here. One had white tipped tail other one didn't, very pretty animals wish we had more of them here.