Identify this snake
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JeffG
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Forget the pic?
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Barry the Bear
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Yeah sorry put up now.
MCgunner
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It is NOT a copperhead. Looks like a species of rat snake to me.
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Barry the Bear
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Any ideas?
MCgunner
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For my above edited reply of rat snake, I was comparing it to snakes in a guide I bought at the food store while checking out called "Snakes of Central Texas". So, the rat snake was as close as I could match.
some version of a bull snake
https://www.google.com/search?q=tex...pJHUAhVIZlAKHWS_BMUQ_AUICigB&biw=1280&bih=900
https://www.google.com/search?q=tex...pJHUAhVIZlAKHWS_BMUQ_AUICigB&biw=1280&bih=900
MCgunner
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Well, this is the rat snake I was looking at. I'll admit I'm no herpetologist.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tex...m=isch&q=texas+rat+snake&imgrc=2C3gKH1xBldCIM:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tex...m=isch&q=texas+rat+snake&imgrc=2C3gKH1xBldCIM:
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Barry the Bear
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Didnt notice till I heard the crunch, I nornally do have a .38 with at least one little shotshell.
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Barry the Bear
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Well comparing the bull to the rat snake and comparing the carcass of the snake above,Im going to have to go with bullsnake, I am ashamed I have killed a non threatening creature accident or no.
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Barry the Bear
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No offense taken, just gotta be more vigilant in the future on my part.
JeffG
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Looks like a pine snake, got 'em here in Wisconsin. My only other guess would be a corn snake.
MCgunner
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I KNOW the important ones. There are only 4 here in Texas, cottonmouth, rattler (around here western diamondback), copperhead, and coral snake. We have mostly cottonmouths here for venomous snakes, but a few rattlers and copperheads. I'm sure there are a few coral snakes around, but I've yet to see one.
When I'm out back, I wear my snake boots. They paid for themselves once with a 3 ft rattler on my other place. There's BUNCHES of rattlers down there.
With snakes, defense beats offense. You sometimes won't know it's there until it strikes. Snake boots are good insurance.
When I'm out back, I wear my snake boots. They paid for themselves once with a 3 ft rattler on my other place. There's BUNCHES of rattlers down there.
With snakes, defense beats offense. You sometimes won't know it's there until it strikes. Snake boots are good insurance.
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Barry the Bear
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Your exactly right, I know the other three by heart, I admit I do not have alot of experience with copperheads, thats why I initially assumes so when I saw it afterward, I thought to myself its too big to be a garden snake and it aint the other three.I KNOW the important ones. There are only 4 here in Texas, cottonmouth, rattler (around here western diamondback), copperhead, and coral snake. We have mostly cottonmouths here for venomous snakes, but a few rattlers and copperheads. I'm sure there are a few coral snakes around, but I've yet to see one.
When I'm out back, I wear my snake boots. They paid for themselves once with a 3 ft rattler on my other place. There's BUNCHES of rattlers down there.
Meplat 308
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Nice pattern on the skin, that'd make a nice insert for a holster or knife sheath.
Dog Soldier
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We need a close up of the head. Most poisonous snakes in the U.S. are Pit Vipers the shape of the head and Pits near the eyes are heat sensors. The Coral is an exception.
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Fat headed snakes? Never heard that before? 
Bad Ninja
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I KNOW the important ones. There are only 4 here in Texas, cottonmouth, rattler (around here western diamondback), copperhead, and coral snake. We have mostly cottonmouths here for venomous snakes, but a few rattlers and copperheads. I'm sure there are a few coral snakes around, but I've yet to see one.
When I'm out back, I wear my snake boots. They paid for themselves once with a 3 ft rattler on my other place. There's BUNCHES of rattlers down there.
Actually,
There are only 4 types of poisonous snakes in the continental US.
Rattlesnakes, Copperheads, Cottonmouths, and Coral snakes.
Learn to recognize those 4 that live in your area.
Every thing else is non poisonous.
red rick
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A copperhead bit my 4 month old beagle last week in the running pen I use to train them in . My nephew was all around the snake , not seeing it and was luck he didn't get bit . He saw the puppy jump back and then saw the snake . The shotgun took care of the snake and the puppy was ok the next day . It bit her in the chest .
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