troy fairweather
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I hate the copperheads only snake I've had the will try to attack you. I don't mind them to much but when a big copper head is chasing you off a river bank, then there fair game to kill.
The ground is still frozen but it will not be much longer.
In OK on the Texas boarder? We didn’t even have a single snow that didn’t melt when it hit the ground this year. Awfully muddy with all the rain lately but far from frozen earth.
I'm gonna cross visiting Thackerville, Oklahoma off my bucket list.
A couple of years ago my son came in the house and said there was a snake on the front walk. I went out and looked and sure enough it was a young copperhead. So I got a 5 gallon bucket and picked him up by the tail and put him in the bucket. Then drove over to the RR tracks a couple of miles away and released him. Everyone thought I was crazy.
a ruger sr22, not a rifle dispatched this one. i was out plinking alone in the desert and stepped right next to it. i jumped a mile high and it moved off. i lost sight of it, got more worried then saw it again. i emptied a mag of minimags into it and, worried about his cousins, moved off to a different plinking spot closer to the turnoff. look just past the sr22’s muzzle. i plink at that place regularly but have never returned to that same spot.
So I could see him crawling through the grass and then stop and curl up and then started to rattle. I gave him one barrel then the second barrel of my shotgun.
What? You didn't "pick him up by the tail" and release him a couple of miles away? It seems you're not so crazy after all!
Scraped out my britches and went home.
Or you could have saved some evidence of cowardliness by claiming, "I wasn't scared. I had to sh-- anyhow".
https://mnherpsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/Venomous Snakes/Venomous-2012.5.20-2-page-version.pdfMakes me glad I live in Minnesota.