Guest Swampman Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 You really should seek professional help. Groundless fears can often be cured. http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/problem_detail.asp?SDID=867:1738 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 You really should seek professional help. Groundless fears can often be cured. http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/problem_detail.asp?SDID=867:1738 This is what I found one day when changing my oil. Groundless fear I think not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 You really should seek professional help. Groundless fears can often be cured. http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/problem_detail.asp?SDID=867:1738 Who the heck are you to tell me I need help??????:mad::mad: Sorry, but my shrink disagrees with you, he says I am perfectly normal. :p Maybe it is YOU who needs help? :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michiganbowhunter_SQ2 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 LOL, this thread is getting ridiculous. I change my mind from my original post, they are good for more than target practice....Boots, belts, and wallets are nice to.:D Seriously folks, just drop it already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzy916 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 I belive if you are going to kill a snake or anyother animal it should be for eating. I have never killed a snake and i wont ever kill a snake. If snakes scare you that bad than maybe you shouldnt go out untill late season, they are everywhere in any state so by just not going some place that you do see them dont mean that a snake isnt going to be where you go to get away from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 We get snakes in the yard here, part of being out in the country, more often in the spring and fall. One year within just a few days time we had about a dozen venomous snakes between copperheads and cottonmouths around the garage, the yard area near the kids swingset, and the shed where I feed our horses. We had one that was actually on the concrete one afternoon after getting home, my middle daughter(4 at that time if I remember right) luckily was stopped by her older sister about 3 feet before getting to the snake. She was wearing open shoes, and the 12 inch copperhead easily could have bit her had she taken a few more steps. I am not going to say it is ok to kill them as laws are different everywhere, but I know what our game warden here told a class full of people when a question was raised about venomous snakes at the hunter safety course I took my daughter to a few years back. When I am out and about along the river I am pretty cautious especially this time of the year on up until it gets cold enough that they are not as active, and I typically will walk around any venomous snakes I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Givan Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 If I see a snake and its venomous then I kill it, no matter if its in the yard or in the woods a half mile behind the house. If it is just a garder snake or a black snake or a corn snake then it can live. The other day I saw a black snake curled around a mouse in our pasture field. I thought it was kind of cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianxt Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 ant got to worry about me killing no snake I run the other way screaming like a little school girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texastrophies Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 Good snake = dead snake. I will try to kill all snakes I see, with the exception of a Blue Indigo, because they kill rattlers, but I have never seen one of them. And I AM NOT eating them.:D:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flintlock1776 Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 :(I wear snake boots but am not willing to take the chance of geting bit,man I hate snakes. I have snake chaps and I would recommend that over just boots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR44 Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 Hey guys, I'm not fond of snakes either, but remember, they are only doing what we are doing = Hunting to survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 It's also illegal to kill many snakes (including rattle snakes) in most states. Yeah. And it's illegal to kill porcupines in some states too. Any dead snake is a good snake. ANY DEAD VENOMOUS SNAKE IS A PUBLIC SERVICE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turningcustomcalls Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 ant got to worry about me killing no snake I run the other way screaming like a little school girl. That's what I'm talking about! :eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 I hate snakes too! I'm lucky we don't have poisonous ones here, just garter snakes which won't hurt you. When I was a kid I'd pick them up and play with them. Now I get the shivers when I even see a pic of one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 I don't care for snake encounters either but I'm not about to let them dictate when and where I hunt. No way!!!! Like William said they can be active around these parts into December. I just avoid them when you see them. The ones I don't see...well they haven't bothered me yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Ugh, it wasn't just coincidence that Satan took the form of a snake. I hate those slimy buggers! Dakota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKAPP01 Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 man, snakes.......i've gotten over alot of fears in my day, and continually do it just to prove to myself i can do whatever i set my mind to....i have learned to accept them. they are ALL over where I antelope hunt.....however i have NEVER ran into a rattler......if i do? tough to say.....i like to say back away, but i have always wanted a snake skin......so i guess if i feel threatened, then i take action.....i had one about 2 months ago on the bike trail jump and try and bite me in the leg, granted it wasnt a rattler but i had no time to react. there are mountain lion sightings too where i hunt, but i've seen tracks in the snow......but never had an encounter....if i do, and get attacked, survival mode, but if for some freak reason, i were to die from a snake bite, or a mountain lion, at least i died doing something i loved and lived my life and was out there regardless of a "fear" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 OOOPS, I killed a pygmy rattler last night, little sucker tried to make a get away, AFTER coming after me, and I missed stepping on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathews4life Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 being from south louisiana and hunting all my life i've had my close encounters..i'm like gator and have a bad fear of snakes therefore any poisonous snake (or heck if its dark and it looks poisonous) that i come across is a goner whether i have to use a stick, gun, or even have shot them with my bow. I feel more secure walking to my stand in the dark knowing there's one less cottonmouth sitting on that waist high palmetto ready for me to brush up against. Another thing is my first yr of being a nurse I've taking care of quite a few snake bit hunters who all were bit while squirrel hunting and none of them were trying to kill the snake...i believe it was the other way around. And lemme tell you a snake bite is nothing fun to deal with. So i'm with all the other guys on here, only good snake is a dead one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Swampman Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 "Ugh, it wasn't just coincidence that Satan took the form of a snake." The church teaches that but I've never seen a snake that talked. The original Biblical word for serpent means "speaks with a lisp or hissing sound." My friend found this 72" Eastern Diamondback (already dead)this morning on the way to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKAPP01 Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 oh my NO THANK YOU! i would not want to encounter that thing......where is that snake from? i remember reptile gardens in the black hills when i was a kid offered rewards for certain type of reptiles and i believe one was like an 8ft rattle snake and they gave you like $35,000......or something like that. figures pry aren't totally accurate...but no thank you i've been bit by a venomous critter before, and i can say that it was the most scared i have EVER been for my life...natural thing to do is panic, and that i did. then the adrenaline kicked in and increased it. thought my heart was just going to explode on me.....i was stopped on the side of the interstate, couldnt talk i was hyperventilating, couldn't call anyone....no traffic coming to stop...somehow i made it through....darn brown recluse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntnMa Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 It's illegal to kill them where i hunt,so i won't do it, even had to let this record pigmy live, I wanted to get it mounted so bad, lol... but if one is in my yard and it's poisonious, it's dead......I'll eat the rattler, but thats the only kind... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okiedog Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 Good snake = dead snake. That pretty much sums it up for me as well. I don't have a fear of them.... I just don't like them:p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 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. Ragweed and poison ivy are important parts of the outdoors, as well. But they're nothing that a good dose of Roundup or a good old-fashioned pullin' won't fix. And BTW........I don't put either of them on my salads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mule659 Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 Snakes in general dont bother me at all but my best friend and hunting buddy it terrified of them. Last year on our way to hang treestands in Ausgust I stepped right on a copperhead...thank God that I decided to wear my 12" boots or I would have gotten it just above the ankle...as it turns out he got a mouth full of boot and a round from a .45 shortly after lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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