Weekly snake thread

About 20 yrs ago I was mtn biking and came around a corner to find a rattlesnake stretched completely across the trail, had to be 5 ft long. Was going too fast and only thing I could do was bunny hop over it.


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sr30 said:
About 20 yrs ago I was mtn biking and came around a corner to find a rattlesnake stretched completely across the trail, had to be 5 ft long. Was going too fast and only thing I could do was bunny hop over it.


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Bunny hopping a poisonous snake is a puckering experience. You are praying it doesn't get thrown up by hitting your back tire. I've jumped copperheads on trails around Raleigh.
 
sr30 said:
About 20 yrs ago I was mtn biking and came around a corner to find a rattlesnake stretched completely across the trail, had to be 5 ft long. Was going too fast and only thing I could do was bunny hop over it.


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I used to run into a lot of them while playing paintball in Virginia. If you saw one as you were hopping a log while running you somehow managed to sprint even faster.
 
Eggs, I assume? Opened it up with a 9mm hp and relieved it of it's head with an axe.

Saw a huge black snake earlier, gave it a free pass as I usually do.

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Killed this one INSIDE my shop...
Great, now every rope, chain, handle, and cord looks like a frikkin' snek...
PISEN!!
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Hadta cap a copperhead today with the Judge.
Seeing more snakes this year. Up till today mostly just black snakes, and we leave them alone at best or relocate them at worst.
Oh I do remember back in April..two timber rattlers, in the road. My neighbor had one curl up under a bush right next to her walkway...I mean right there. And she's got dogs and cats and horses..
The only time I ever see timber rattlers is out in the woods, and then just barely...if they move. They're shy and hide good. It's kinda odd to see them out wandering around.
 
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1911gobang said:
Killed this one INSIDE my shop...
Great, now every rope, chain, handle, and cord looks like a frikkin' snek...
PISEN!!
@fieldgrade
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Well, guess I'm never visiting your shop.

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Timber rattlers are cool customers... they find a rat hole to stake out, and won't budge fer nuthin'! You have to step on 'em to get 'em to move.
 
This guy was cruising from the barn toward the coop the other night. The wife redirected him with a rake and sent him on his way away from the pets.

Our 15+ year old barn cat finally expired and now we have some mice running around, and of course the snakes show up to eat them. Just eat and move along.

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Jayne, that might be an Indigo snake... real soft to touch, super fast, long and skinny, and dark all over, 'cept the mouth. Hard to tell, but that'n might have a white throat... rat snake, then... just not as stout as most.

I just found this new hatband while weedin' the garden this mornin'... it'll be my first try at preservin' the skin usin' antifreeze.

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JimB said:
We could use a thread titled "The Green Heron identifies that snake"
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He talked me into showing me the one between his legs one time….Muttered something about GIGAAAAANTUS PENI GRANDIOSO or something like that. Id never seen one that small around these parts. I expected more from him. @The Green Heron
 
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MacEntyre said:
Jayne, that might be an Indigo snake... real soft to touch, super fast, long and skinny, and dark all over, 'cept the mouth. Hard to tell, but that'n might have a white throat... rat snake, then... just not as stout as most.

I just found this new hatband while weedin' the garden this mornin'... it'll be my first try at preservin' the skin usin' antifreeze.

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How did you kill him? Not a mark on him….which is highly unusual around this group… they usually look like:

"I only shot him a few times"

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Sneakymedic said:
He talked me into showing me the one between his legs one time….Muttered something about GIGAAAAANTUS PENI GRANDIOSO or something like that. Id never seen one that small around these parts. I expected more from him. @The Green Heron
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just how does someone talk you into looking at their penis? I could really use this on my wife.
 
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How did you kill him? Not a mark on him….
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One whack behind the head with a flexible garden stick, ya know, the green plastic coated rod ya use to hold up mater plants?

Don't want no holes in me hatband... jus' sayin'.

Normally, I whack 'em with an old fishin' rod. Everywhere it hits 'em, it breaks their back.
 
Johnny said:
Why on earth would you want your wife to see The Green Heron's penis?
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You ever feel like it's too hot inside the house but when you step outside and come back in you able to tell it's much cooler inside than outside? Well, if she sees GH's tiny penis maybe she'll be reminded that mine is much bigger than she remembered when she last saw it 7 years ago and she'll want to mess with it again :) if it still works.
 
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Well, see….I had only two beers. He may or may not have been high on Oxy, or moonshine or Shrooms. He said… and I quote: "you know the CFF snake thread? and I said yes…then he said Lemme show you this rare WNC snake I have. And it happened.

Not slept since.

And we all lived happily ever after. In the nut house.
 
Inglis said:
What is this anti freeze method you use on snake skins?
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I've always skinned the snake, then nailed it inside-up on a board and salted it without exposure to the sun.
After it dries, I brush off all the salt and scrape off anything that isn't skin.
Over the life of that skin, preserved by salt, I have to apply mineral oil, or it will be dry and brittle.

Recently a fellow told me to try antifreeze instead. So, I skinned the snake and nailed it inside-up on a board,
and poured antifreeze on it. A few hours later, I poured some more antifreeze on it and rubbed it in.
Now I'm gonna let it dry and see if'n it works. It's supposed to prevent it from becoming dry and brittle.

For a hatband, I like to select the portion that I want (right side, left side, whole back, with or without the belly scales)
and glue or sew it onto a piece of leather.
 
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Sneakymedic said:
Well, see….I had only two beers. He may or may not have been high on Oxy, or moonshine or Shrooms. He said… and I quote: "you know the CFF snake thread? and I said yes…then he said Lemme show you this rare WNC snake I have. And it happened.

Not slept since.

And we all lived happily ever after. In the nut house.
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"Excuse me while I whip this out."
 
i double checked and made sure there were no snakes before i moved to clemmons - so, sorry i wont be contributing to this thread.
 
smithnwesley said:
i double checked and made sure there were no snakes before i moved to clemmons - so, sorry i wont be contributing to this thread.
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When folks would ask me at the dive shop if there were any sharks out there, I told them no, all the sharks are in the Pacific Ocean.
 
Friday said:
When folks would ask me at the dive shop if there were any sharks out there, I told them no, all the sharks are in the Pacific Ocean.
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We were surf fishing in Florida last month and a group of teenage girls came up to us and ask what we were doing. Guy I was with said "fishing" and one of them literally said "but this is where we swim and stuff, there are any fish here, right?" We laughed and said that maybe that's why we hadn't caught any. They seemed satisfied and went away.
 
smithnwesley said:
i double checked and made sure there were no snakes before i moved to clemmons - so, sorry i wont be contributing to this thread.
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You've been fed a line of sh*t.

So far this year, I have spotted three; a rat snake, a striped garter and one copperhead.
 
Eastern Indigo Snake is native to the southeastern coastal plain, including NC. It's a state and federal "threatened" species, pretty uncommon to see. What's unusual about them is their use of territory... one snake can range over 80 to 300 acres! They can get real big and well over 6' long, but usually ya see 'em 4' tp 6' and lean.

Sometimes they have a maroon chin, like this'n:

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At the Hammer house, if'n it slithers, it dies! Hate a snake! Had one living in the house for years! I think I've got another one.
 
MacEntyre said:
Recently a fellow told me to try antifreeze instead. So, I skinned the snake and nailed it inside-up on a board,
and poured antifreeze on it. A few hours later, I poured some more antifreeze on it and rubbed it in.
Now I'm gonna let it dry and see if'n it works. It's supposed to prevent it from becoming dry and brittle.
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Just checked it this morning... looks like the antifreeze soaked right through the skin, and it has left a sheen, kinda like varnish or linseed oil. I didn't touch it to see if it's hardening, but I'm sure it will. I also expect it to be very flexible when it's done drying.

Right now it looks like what you get when you cure a rabbit skin with a power washer and an egg yolk. Kinda a thin sheen.
 
JimB said:
We were surf fishing in Florida last month and a group of teenage girls came up to us and ask what we were doing. Guy I was with said "fishing" and one of them literally said "but this is where we swim and stuff, there are any fish here, right?" We laughed and said that maybe that's why we hadn't caught any. They seemed satisfied and went away.
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You big dummy's. Of course there aren't any fish there. That's like, the beach and everything. :rolleyes:

People are funny.
 
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