Weekly snake thread

If you guys were closer to Fayetteville, I'd say yes. Honestly I'd keep them for a few days and let them go in a remote wooded area nearby. I like to educate friends and family when I get certain snakes. I've not had much luck finding copperheads. Mainly black racers, rat snakes, worm snakes, ring necks, etc. You know, the boring stuff.
 
Here I was thinking you might be running a selective breeding program. Would be interesting to see what could be done with patterns and all given a few years of work.

I'll drop ya a PM next time I get my hands on one... Any others your after?​
 
I know a guy who has a "pet" copperhead. Last I saw it, it was a foot long or so.

They can be surprisingly docile and have a bit of a reputation for being easy to handle. I've personally seen people handle them like a ball python or other harmless snake.
 
He teaches animal care & vet tech stuff at the local CC & is all into herps. Not my thing at all, but still kind of neat.
 
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I try to get folks to use This as a tool for identification and it’s a great learner if folks will take the time to look at it before screaming copperhead at everything with a pattern
WAT?! we get horny toads here?
I've definitely seen a few types of skinks, a few green anoles, and a few different kinds of frogs and toads in my yard...
but horny toads? I'd be all kinds of happy if i had a bunch of them little buggers running around my yard.
 
Here I was thinking you might be running a selective breeding program. Would be interesting to see what could be done with patterns and all given a few years of work.

I'll drop ya a PM next time I get my hands on one... Any others your after?​
Kings, corns... If you make it down to Texas, New Mexico, or Mexico and run across a Trans-Pecos Rat Snake or a Gray Banded Kingsnake that'd be great!

I wish I had the time and resources to do a breeding program on those...
 
Kings, corns... If you make it down to Texas, New Mexico, or Mexico and run across a Trans-Pecos Rat Snake or a Gray Banded Kingsnake that'd be great!

I wish I had the time and resources to do a breeding program on those...
Are you breeding any local caught eastern kings?
 
My dog found this critter coiled up in the middle of the street 2 doors away. No strike that I saw and dog didn’t yelp when I jerked her away from it. She was danger close though!

Guessing <18” long. Slithered away immediately after we left the area. I went back for a picture once wife, daughter and dog were gone.

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Gooood copperhead, good.
6 feet from the back door.
Looks like maybe not too long ago his tail was still green? Kinda blackish... not that it matters now, lol.

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mentioned in a different thread.
Last night i heard a few gunshots and saw a neighbor with a flashlight walking around his porch/yard. then I got a call that he found a rattlesnake that needed to be dealt with, no big deal. they sent pictures to my wife's phone and it looked like maybe 3-4ft canebrake.
 
Gooood copperhead, good.
6 feet from the back door.
Looks like maybe not too long ago his tail was still green? Kinda blackish... not that it matters now, lol.

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That looks like a decent size Copperhead to me. Skin em out! I'm on high alert for these guys as they say the cicada crop will be pretty heavy this summer.


If anyone needs an fishing rod to snap their necks. I have a 2500 series penn rod that a buddy broke the top 10" off. It should still put a woopin' on a snake. Free.
 
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That looks like a decent size Copperhead to me. Skin em out! I'm on high alert for these guys as they say the cicada crop will be pretty heavy this summer.
He's done gone over the fence. I have too many projects as it is, lol.
Plus, I filled him full of holes before taking the shovel to him.
I'm hoping he's the one we uncovered Friday while doing a bit of cleaning before the conex arrived. I Jeppo'd with the 38. [emoji1787]
Tonight I used the 32SWL shotshells.

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He's done gone over the fence. I have too many projects as it is, lol.
Plus, I filled him full of holes before taking the shovel to him.
I'm hoping he's the one we uncovered Friday while doing a bit of cleaning before the conex arrived. I Jeppo'd with the 38. [emoji1787]
Tonight I used the 32SWL shotshells.

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@Jeppo 'd so ya used a glock? haha I understand. I've had 4 friends tagged by these guys. Painful and required a bunch of saline to flush but all have recovered. Two though they got hit by a wasp initially.
 
No pictures but saw my first copperhead on the property in the 20 years we’ve lived here. We’ve had plenty of black snakes and even a king once but this was the first copperhead. I nearly stepped on him doing some antenna work at the tree line. Backed away slowly and went in the house to come back with the S&W 64. A couple more of shot shells and tossed the body off into the woods. I don’t get close enough to them to use a shovel while they are still moving.
 
lol. Damn. Glad it worked out

not going to lie. pulled over early for a roadside relocate!

it didn’t show it could crawl out of the bucket until the bucket was slightly tilted in the front seat!!! LOL

was able to tail it and had a hammer in the seat as a makeshift hook
 
Damn, another one. This one was on my back steps; I was closing the screen door for the night and as I reached for the door to release the closer catch, I saw the last third of his body near the hinges side of the door.
Popped it with a 32SWL shotshell, he fell off the steps.
Got up close for the second shot.
Wife is a bit freaked out, so I dumped it in a bucket for the night. Otherwise I would have taken it to the fence and tossed it over.

That's 2 in 8 days, never had this many this close together.

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now you folks got me all nervous.
I let the grass grow too tall in part of my yard
can't just run the mower because there are some concrete and brick scraps over that way...
so now i gotta wade into hip high grass to stick my hands into a pile of bricks and concrete chunks.
maybe i'll just fire a couple shells of birdshot into the area preemptively.
 
now you folks got me all nervous.
I let the grass grow too tall in part of my yard
can't just run the mower because there are some concrete and brick scraps over that way...
so now i gotta wade into hip high grass to stick my hands into a pile of bricks and concrete chunks.
maybe i'll just fire a couple shells of birdshot into the area preemptively.

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now you folks got me all nervous.
I let the grass grow too tall in part of my yard
can't just run the mower because there are some concrete and brick scraps over that way...
so now i gotta wade into hip high grass to stick my hands into a pile of bricks and concrete chunks.
maybe i'll just fire a couple shells of birdshot into the area preemptively.
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mentioned in a different thread.
Last night i heard a few gunshots and saw a neighbor with a flashlight walking around his porch/yard. then I got a call that he found a rattlesnake that needed to be dealt with, no big deal. they sent pictures to my wife's phone and it looked like maybe 3-4ft canebrake.

Where?? While they are not rare, they are difficult to find.
 
Where?? While they are not rare, they are difficult to find.
It was sitting on a porch next to a 45acre plot of jungle alongside the cape fear south of fayetteville. Seen fox, deer, snakes, snakes, snakes, lizards, lizards, frogs frogs frogs, possums, raccoons, and more bunnies than you can shake a boomstick at. It's a bit of an adjustment for us ex-city people.
the bugs are also an adjustment...
 
It was sitting on a porch next to a 45acre plot of jungle alongside the cape fear south of fayetteville. Seen fox, deer, snakes, snakes, snakes, lizards, lizards, frogs frogs frogs, possums, raccoons, and more bunnies than you can shake a boomstick at. It's a bit of an adjustment for us ex-city people.
the bugs are also an adjustment...

I have looked for rattlesnakes North Carolina, in the mountains, and down east. I've yet to actually find one, to my dismay.

Out west? Different story. I've been in areas of the Southwest where western diamondbacks we're all over the damn place.
 
I have looked for rattlesnakes North Carolina, in the mountains, and down east. I've yet to actually find one, to my dismay.

Out west? Different story. I've been in areas of the Southwest where western diamondbacks we're all over the damn place.
One of the snakes I’ve always wanted to find. Southern Randolph county and southeast towards the coast is supposed to be slap full of timbers. Only ones Ive ever seen were found dead in the road
 
This was down by Plymouth/Jamesville under/around the boat dock. Daughter snapped a pic of it from a distance when her and her Poppy were loading the boat mid-day. I can’t tell what it is.


ETA: I think it’s a brown water snake but bc his head is just above the water it’s making it look like a triangular head.
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One of the snakes I’ve always wanted to find. Southern Randolph county and southeast towards the coast is supposed to be slap full of timbers. Only ones Ive ever seen were found dead in the road

They're supposed to be all over Camp Lejeune and also Fort Bragg, and in all of my time both places, Camp lejeune a whole lot more, I've seen tons of water moccasins and copperheads, but nary a rattlesnake.

Last year before we went to Oak Island on vacation, one or two days before, this street one block down from where we were staying, they killed an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, killed it because it was a threatening a pet, it took a picture and that thing must have been 7 ft long.
 
Saw my first black snake of the season a couple of days ago. It was very small. I imagine Mom was not far away. They are allowed to stay as long as they don't invade my patio space. Even then, they are encouraged to leave rather than dispatched. Did not get a pic, I don't carry my phone around everywhere.
 
They're supposed to be all over Camp Lejeune and also Fort Bragg, and in all of my time both places, Camp lejeune a whole lot more, I've seen tons of water moccasins and copperheads, but nary a rattlesnake.

Last year before we went to Oak Island on vacation, one or two days before, this street one block down from where we were staying, they killed an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, killed it because it was a threatening a pet, it took a picture and that thing must have been 7 ft long.
I had to make sure I wasn't incriminating myself, lol.
I killed a pygmy rattlesnake here the first year we moved in. It was down at the barn.

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One of the snakes I’ve always wanted to find. Southern Randolph county and southeast towards the coast is supposed to be slap full of timbers. Only ones Ive ever seen were found dead in the road
I used to fish Tuckertown a lot in the early-to-mid-90's, and saw big timbers swimming across the lake pretty regularly. It really surprised me how big they were, probably at least 5' long, and at least as big around as an average man's forearm. I might have just seen the same snake several times, because they all looked identical.
 
Damn, another one. This one was on my back steps; I was closing the screen door for the night and as I reached for the door to release the closer catch, I saw the last third of his body near the hinges side of the door.
Popped it with a 32SWL shotshell, he fell off the steps.
Got up close for the second shot.
Wife is a bit freaked out, so I dumped it in a bucket for the night. Otherwise I would have taken it to the fence and tossed it over.

That's 2 in 8 days, never had this many this close together.

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I know that feeling. I killed 9 copperheads in the yard last year. I killed two pairs on consecutive nights. Usually use a fiberglass rod but I when I started seeing multiples I brought the shotgun out. I’ve never seen so many in this area. This year I haven’t seen a one.
 
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