HUNTINGMAN Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 :(I went yesterday and drove the logging road that runs around the perimeter of the 360 acres I have to hunt on.Man has the farm really grown up this year,the cows are keeping the front feilds down good but in the woods in the back it is nasty.I more than likely wont be hunting in the woods at the back of the farm in early season because of snakes.My cousin has done killed a big rattle snake and a copperhead around his yard and another rattler and copperhead got away from him:eek:.I wear snake boots but am not willing to take the chance of geting bit,man I hate snakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clrj3514 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 i hate snakes too!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Swampman Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Most people are bitten while trying to kill snakes. If you're not going to eat it, please don't kill it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Where are you hunting at? If I were to not hunt for fear of snakes, I would not be hunting here until near the end of our seasons, have seen snakes out here as late as December. They are around, and often you do not see them. Early season the ones I dont see concern me a bit more than the ones I do see, try to be a bit cautious. This place with the river winding around us is pretty lousy with venomous snakes(cottonmouths, copperheads, and timber rattlers), but I have yet to step on one or have one strike at my boots, have been close though. I have watched cottonmouths slither by under my stand during the rifle season here. Only thing that really bothers me with them is getting down low tracking a deer in the thick stuff especially on warm days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Most people are bitten while trying to kill snakes. If you're not going to eat it, please don't kill it. WHAT THE?????? Ask around, I'll kill just about any dang snake I see, ESPECIALLY copperheads, I have had to many run ins with them not to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rem308 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 I have to agree with Gator. Between hunting, fishing, mountain biking, and hiking/scouting, I try not to let a snake get away. Many people will disagree with this, but that's just what I do. I consider this each persons choice, however. So if someone wants to let 'em slide, I don't mind. The same way that if someone wants to kill 'em, I don't mind either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FSU_Seminole Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 :(I went yesterday and drove the logging road that runs around the perimeter of the 360 acres I have to hunt on.Man has the farm really grown up this year,the cows are keeping the front feilds down good but in the woods in the back it is nasty.I more than likely wont be hunting in the woods at the back of the farm in early season because of snakes.My cousin has done killed a big rattle snake and a copperhead around his yard and another rattler and copperhead got away from him:eek:.I wear snake boots but am not willing to take the chance of geting bit,man I hate snakes. Hey man I'm with you. My property borders a swamp thats full of deer & people tell me all the time the only way you can kill a big buck is to get off the fields & head back into the swamp. THAT AINT GONNA HAPPEN in the early part of the year. I've killed some rattlesnakes where I hunt & I've killed some cotton mouths as well. I've seen cotton mouths under a bridge down this dirt road where I hunt. I've seen them sunning under this bridge like they are ants or something. I don't mess with them there, only if they are on my property. I don't hunt in a swamp in September or October in SC. I know some people that do but I'm just not going to go in there until the first hard frost. Call me soft or call me crazy but its some HUGE rattlesnakes & cotton mouths were I hunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Snakes, especially rattlesnakes, are just a natural part of the environment around West Texas. Some years I'll see a dozen or more while dove/quail/deer hunting, and other years I won't see any. If I see one near the camp house, I'll kill it. If I see one around the water hole where I'm dove hunting, that one's a goner too. Don't need to have any more Labs getting bit (we've had 2 over the past several years). If I happen across one out in the middle of the ranch, I usually just make a wide circle around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Swampman Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 "I'll kill just about any dang snake I see" Unfortunately, most people feel that way. It makes no sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisticwhitetails Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 WHAT THE?????? Ask around, I'll kill just about any dang snake I see, ESPECIALLY copperheads, I have had to many run ins with them not to. You sure lack proper head spacing. Snakes {all snakes} are an important part of the outdoors. To kill one without the sole purpose of eating it, is unsportsmanlike, shows a complete disregard for the outdoors and a general degree of ignorance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Swampman Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Amen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michiganbowhunter_SQ2 Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 P.E.T.S- People for the Ethical Treatment of Snakes :rolleyes: Kill em all I say, they are good for one thing and one thing only...target practice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sskybnd Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 my thing on them is, if there were they should be i wont bother them, walked up on two this year, going to the stand but seen them before i realy got close and just walked around them, last year we had to kill one that was trying to get into the camper, i dont like them either but they eat rats and mice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Swampman Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 It's also illegal to kill many snakes (including rattle snakes) in most states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOYTnMUZZYboy Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 I hate snakes!!!!! But if there not bothering me I won't bother them. Not that I see a bunch of them but the ones I do see are fun to watch. Had one this summer out by the end of drive way that seemed like he wanted to eat the tire on my truck. I got a stick and moved him away from the road and drive way. There very cool creatures! I treat them like the dogs around here. Never trust them, but dont harm them either. Just my 2 cents. Stay safe and keep an eye out for them. I think i can speak for all of us when i say none of us want to read about someone getting bitten by a poisons snake and getting hurt. So from one hunting brother to the next, stay safe ladies and gents! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predator Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Not much poisonous snakes around here in south Jersey but scouting this year I got a scare from the biggest black snake I've ever seen. Almost stepped on 'em, about 4 inches in diameter and about 8 feet or more long. Good thing my heart is OK. Luckily he behaved like most snakes and took off too fast to catch him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUNTINGMAN Posted August 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 In the last three years my cousin that owns the farm I hunt on has lost four beagles to snake bites and last year there was a little girl that just about got bit in his barn,this is in the south central part of KYin casey county.Everybody up and down the road that I hunt on says they are worse this year than they have seen in a long time.When I was down there the other day a guy came to my cousins house and said that the man that owns the farm across the road from him killed three behind his barn in the same day,all rattlers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngbuck30230 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 the only snake i like is a dead one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 You sure lack proper head spacing. Snakes {all snakes} are an important part of the outdoors. To kill one without the sole purpose of eating it, is unsportsmanlike, shows a complete disregard for the outdoors and a general degree of ignorance. No, I do believe that my head spacing is just fine. My question for ya'll is this, if you had a say a copperhead in YOUR yard, and you had animals and loved ones there what would you do? Would you let it go or kill it to prevent it from hurting someone? But I guess if I let it alone, and me or anyone of my 3 kids or friends that come out or even my dogs were to get bit, I am ignorant and unsportsmanlike. Sorry, but me killing a snake in MY yard is me being a responsible adult IMO. Oh, BTW, I did let about a 4' long black snake go the other day that my dog had cornered in the yard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCH Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 I kill every poisonous snake that I see. Not sure on Oklahoma regulations regarding snakes, but I'm pretty sure they're not on the protected list. If they are, we get at least 4 or 5 pictures in the local paper each week of people breaking the law.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisticwhitetails Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 No, I do believe that my head spacing is just fine. My question for ya'll is this, if you had a say a copperhead in YOUR yard, and you had animals and loved ones there what would you do? Would you let it go or kill it to prevent it from hurting someone? But I guess if I let it alone, and me or anyone of my 3 kids or friends that come out or even my dogs were to get bit, I am ignorant and unsportsmanlike. Sorry, but me killing a snake in MY yard is me being a responsible adult IMO. Oh, BTW, I did let about a 4' long black snake go the other day that my dog had cornered in the yard Your original post stated you kill every snake you see, didn't say anything about your yard. Removing possible nuisance snakes from populated areas is one thing. Killing every snake you see in the OUTDOORS is quiet another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyman Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 I personally don't do the Snake killing thing. I do hunt in areas where I am likely to see Copperheads, but i simply am not afraid of being bit. It is hard to argue with removing poisonous Snakes from one's yard, but to "kill every Snake you see" is indefensible in my book. If I'm afraid of Dogs, does that mean i can kill every one i encounter in the woods or my yard? I would venture to guess that many more people are bitten/killed by Dogs than Snakes in this Country. I won't attempt to live anyone else's life for them, just something to think about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Your original post stated you kill every snake you see, didn't say anything about your yard. Removing possible nuisance snakes from populated areas is one thing. Killing every snake you see in the OUTDOORS is quiet another. Most of the snakes I see ARE in my yard, so they actually are one in the same But to to call me ignorant, unsportsmanlike, and as having a total disregard for the outdoors is really and quite truthfully uncalled for. I am guessing that you didn't know that I have a real phobia against snakes did you, and that they scare the crap outta me. And I am betting that 90% of the snakes I see are in fact poisonious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisticwhitetails Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Most of the snakes I see ARE in my yard, so they actually are one in the same But to to call me ignorant, unsportsmanlike, and as having a total disregard for the outdoors is really and quite truthfully uncalled for. I am guessing that you didn't know that I have a real phobia against snakes did you, and that they scare the crap outta me. And I am betting that 90% of the snakes I see are in fact poisonious Gator, My comments were not directed at you personally per say, but rather the attitudes some people have towards snakes. If you indeed have a deep fear of them, I suggest you study them and learn all you can about them. If you do, I bet you will come away with a better understanding of the niche they play and why it's important. Replace your fear with respect and everyone wins {and lives}. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 You quoted me, therefore it appears as if your comments were directed AT me, hard to say otherwise. You can ask anyone here how bad my fear of snakes TRULY is, and they will tell you as much. As far as studying them, no thanks. I do know they have a niche in the outdoor society, but as long as they stay away from me, they can live. But if they come into my yard, or I see one on the road, or if my dog bays one up, sorry, lights out for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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