deer hunting with snakes

[Jeramie]

You know its funny. Ive lived and hunted Oklahoma all of my life. I have rarely seen a snake while hunting. If you dont go looking for them you shouldnt have anything to worry about. I hunt hard oaks and never run into them. Are they there? Sure.... but im not worried as long as I dont go sit on rock piles or flipping over dead wood.

I have to agree with swampman to a degree. If you dont mess with them you have very little to worry about.

That being said I would squeeze the trigger on a poisonus snake in a heart beat. The black and garder snakes are ok as long as they keep their distance....

[Doc]

I belive if you are going to kill a snake or anyother animal it should be for eating.

This is a restriction that is a bit out of order and unacceptable. This kind of thinking would make it wrong to hunt furbearers, or kill pests (rats etc.). I don't eat woodchucks, but I hunt them.

Further, I don't want anyone telling me that the only reason for hunting is for food. We have a whole honorable, traditional activity called trapping that kills a lot of animals that are never intended to be eaten. I have never heard anyone other than animal rights people or "closet" animal rights people condemn that activity.

We have enough people trying to put limitations on our hunting rights without us hunters starting to do it to each other.

By the way, it has been decades since anyone has found a poisonous snake in our area. This is most likely because of a combination of climate and the fact that everyone who ever found one in the past killed it. For that I am extremely happy! We have plenty of non-poisonous snakes to work on the rodents and insects. We really don't need the addition of reptiles that will kill or cripple our residents and domestic stock.

Doc

[rookieee]

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.

IF IT HAS FANGS AND ITS POISONOUS KILL THE DANG THING I HATE SNAKES HAVE TO HUNT AROUND THEM ALL THE TIME IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND SEEN A FEW COWS AND OTHER LIFE STOCK DIE DUE TO THERE BIT THE ONLY THING THERE GOOD FOR IS BELTS AND BOOTS

[MichiganHunter]

get a Taurus(SP) judge it's a revolver that fires .410 shot gun shells it's a little loud but it gets the job finished.

[bullfrog00]

I would venture to say that less than 50% of the snakes you see are venomous. Most people see a diamondback water snake or a kingsnake and call them (poisonous) here in missouri. Poor uninformed people there are roughly 15 types of venomous snake (counting sub-species) and over 50 types of non-venomous snakes. So the ratio of venomous to non-venomous is slightly skewed.

[Strut10]

I don't like to look at any of them. If I see one, I remove it from my eco-system. Being at the top of the food chain is cool like that.

[okiedog]

I don't like to look at any of them. If I see one, I remove it from my eco-system. Being at the top of the food chain is cool like that.

I like your way of thinking!

Looks like there are alot of us without proper head spacing:rolleyes::D

[MCH]

I would venture to say that less than 50% of the snakes you see are venomous. Most people see a diamondback water snake or a kingsnake and call them (poisonous) here in missouri. Poor uninformed people there are roughly 15 types of venomous snake (counting sub-species) and over 50 types of non-venomous snakes. So the ratio of venomous to non-venomous is slightly skewed.

I know my snakes pretty well and I would venture to say that 75% of the snakes I run into are venomous. Copperhead and cottonmouths outnumber most snakes in this area. I've let many a king-snake and water snake crawl, but I've left more of the other type laying on the ground to crawl no more.

[Strut10]

I like your way of thinking!

Thank you, kind sir.

[Gator]

I would venture to say that less than 50% of the snakes you see are venomous. Most people see a diamondback water snake or a kingsnake and call them (poisonous) here in missouri. Poor uninformed people there are roughly 15 types of venomous snake (counting sub-species) and over 50 types of non-venomous snakes. So the ratio of venomous to non-venomous is slightly skewed.

Not poor and not uninformed, actually quite educated on snakes, having grown up in Florida and now rewsiding in Oklahoma. Anyways, the majority of the snakes I see are venomous, copperheads and pygmy rattlers, and they shall all DIE!!!!! I have had to many close encounters with them to let them slither away;)

[wtnhunt]

I would venture to say that less than 50% of the snakes you see are venomous. Most people see a diamondback water snake or a kingsnake and call them (poisonous) here in missouri. Poor uninformed people there are roughly 15 types of venomous snake (counting sub-species) and over 50 types of non-venomous snakes. So the ratio of venomous to non-venomous is slightly skewed.

I know my snakes pretty well and I would venture to say that 75% of the snakes I run into are venomous. Copperhead and cottonmouths outnumber most snakes in this area. I've let many a king-snake and water snake crawl, but I've left more of the other type laying on the ground to crawl no more.

Yep, know em pretty well here too. The majority of the snakes we see here are either black racers or are venomous snakes and we have no shortage of them. See a few garter snakes and other small non venomous snakes from time to time, but the majority of the snakes we see are copperheads or water moccasins.