Copperhead meets Glock 27.
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Nice shooting.
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Nice shot!
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I'd have the skin made into a wall hanging
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Im a reptile enthusiast and ive always wanted to see one of these in the wild. Never been able to find one. Its seems like the people who always come across these animals are the ones who always feel they have to kill them.
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Hey Piece Of Meat, if you want to play with one of these fellas you give me a shout next time your in Kentucky. I can put you on copperheads, cottonmouths, Pygmy rattlers, and timber rattlers. On the family farm copperheads grow to 4ft plus and are super fat. I guess they live off of bats and other critters in and around the moths of caves.
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Lately, have had a rash of copperheads
Killed 2 out at the kennels last yr, ran over one with the lawn mower, one of the dogs killed one this yr. good thing they arent as excitable as rattlers, i've almost stepped on em x2 before i noticed em.
Killed 2 out at the kennels last yr, ran over one with the lawn mower, one of the dogs killed one this yr. good thing they arent as excitable as rattlers, i've almost stepped on em x2 before i noticed em.
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Good shot and they are really out around the western part of our County where a friend killed 14 of them with in 50 feet of his house so far this year.
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Awesome WestK 
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Deltaboy,
Sounds like your friend needs a few cats and maybe some chickens or guinea hens!
I come across some big rattlesnakes but have yet to find sizable copperheads here, luckily.
Sounds like your friend needs a few cats and maybe some chickens or guinea hens!
I come across some big rattlesnakes but have yet to find sizable copperheads here, luckily.
I know that some cats and dogs kill rattlesnakes and copperheads, but will chickens?
I'd think that chickens are pretty susceptible to snake venoms. Some pit vipers definitely eat birds, so the venom has to kill the bird before it flies away.
The best known example may be the Golden Lance-Headed Pit Viper, Bothrops insularis, which lives on an island off of Sao Paulo, Brazil. These are related to the typical lance-headed pit vipers, like Bothrops atrox on the mainland. Commonly called Barba amarilla (Yellow beard) for its yellowish throat, it causes many fatal snakebites throughout Latin America.
I'd think that chickens are pretty susceptible to snake venoms. Some pit vipers definitely eat birds, so the venom has to kill the bird before it flies away.
The best known example may be the Golden Lance-Headed Pit Viper, Bothrops insularis, which lives on an island off of Sao Paulo, Brazil. These are related to the typical lance-headed pit vipers, like Bothrops atrox on the mainland. Commonly called Barba amarilla (Yellow beard) for its yellowish throat, it causes many fatal snakebites throughout Latin America.
I have never needed to kill a semi-poisonous snake, let alone suffer hearing damage over it. Snakes have about a thousand brain cells and move at about 5mph. They also want nothing to do with you. By the time you have noticed the presence of a snake (in the western hemisphere, anyway), there is no danger of an accidental misunderstanding.
I might even rather get bit by a copperhead (at least anywhere below the knee, lol), than to shoot a G27 without ears on! But if I have seen the snake, it's no contest. I will suffer neither.
Chickens will definitely kill and eat snakes, lol. Even smaller birds than chickens will pwn a copperhead. Many rodents smaller than a rat will also destroy a copperhead. Copperheads prey on smaller mammals and birds that are asleep and unawares.
Haha, for some reason I'm reminded of an incident what when I was around 6 or 7. I was sitting outside, and a wasp landed on me. Even at that age, I knew perfectly well a wasp has no reason to sting me, unless I accidentally provoke it. For whatever reason, I decide to watch my visitor, in no hurry to shoo it away.
About this time, my mother comes outside. She sees it and immediately screams and tell me to hold still. Before I can even get any words out, she's coming at me while rolling up the magazine she had in her hands. She repeatedly swats the wasp... just good enough that is stings me 7 times before it dies. That was a sad day for me. Wasp and I both suffered cuz my mother was ignorant. If the wasp had bothered me, I would have flicked it away with one fingertip.
They also want nothing to do with you. By the time you have noticed the presence of a snake (in the western hemisphere, anyway), there is no danger of an accidental misunderstanding.I might even rather get bit by a copperhead (at least anywhere below the knee, lol), than to shoot a G27 without ears on! But if I have seen the snake, it's no contest. I will suffer neither.
Chickens will definitely kill and eat snakes, lol. Even smaller birds than chickens will pwn a copperhead. Many rodents smaller than a rat will also destroy a copperhead. Copperheads prey on smaller mammals and birds that are asleep and unawares.
Haha, for some reason I'm reminded of an incident what when I was around 6 or 7. I was sitting outside, and a wasp landed on me. Even at that age, I knew perfectly well a wasp has no reason to sting me, unless I accidentally provoke it. For whatever reason, I decide to watch my visitor, in no hurry to shoo it away.
About this time, my mother comes outside. She sees it and immediately screams and tell me to hold still. Before I can even get any words out, she's coming at me while rolling up the magazine she had in her hands. She repeatedly swats the wasp... just good enough that is stings me 7 times before it dies. That was a sad day for me. Wasp and I both suffered cuz my mother was ignorant. If the wasp had bothered me, I would have flicked it away with one fingertip.
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wow you sound pretty tough. semi-poisonous?? Well they do kill people on occasion and I would like to see you tell someone who has been bitten by one how it not really a big deal. And we have lost 2 dogs over the years to them. I got no problem shooting one on my propertyI have never needed to kill a semi-poisonous snake, let alone suffer hearing damage over it. Snakes have about a thousand brain cells and move at about 5mph.
I might even rather get bit by a copperhead (at least anywhere below the knee, lol), than to shoot a G27 without ears on! But if I have seen the snake, it's no contest. I will suffer neither.
Chickens will definitely kill and eat snakes, lol. Even smaller birds than chickens will pwn a copperhead. Many rodents smaller than a rat will also destroy a copperhead. Copperheads prey on smaller mammals and birds that are asleep and unawares.
Haha, for some reason I'm reminded of an incident what when I was around 6 or 7. I was sitting outside, and a wasp landed on me. Even at that age, I knew perfectly well a wasp has no reason to sting me, unless I accidentally provoke it. For whatever reason, I decide to watch my visitor, in no hurry to shoo it away.
About this time, my mother comes outside. She sees it and immediately screams and tell me to hold still. Before I can even get any words out, she's coming at me while rolling up the magazine she had in her hands. She repeatedly swats the wasp... just good enough that is stings me 7 times before it dies. That was a sad day for me. Wasp and I both suffered cuz my mother was ignorant. If the wasp had bothered me, I would have flicked it away with one fingertip.
Here is what semi venom can do to you
Bee stings can kill people, too. I don't draw and shoot bees on sight.
Sorry for your dogs. I still wouldn't shoot a snake without putting on ears first, and I could figure out a dozen easier ways to kill a snake by the time I could find a pair of ears.
If I ever shot a snake, it would be with a 22LR rifle.
I promise, that guy in the pic didn't see the snake coming and/or he was allergic. Copperheads CHEW on you for awhile to get that much poison in. They don't even have fangs. If you are aware of it, and you are a fit adult, you have nothing to fear from a copperhead. There is no more problem, unless you make it, by losing your wits... or unless, as you have pointed out, it's a problem on your property for w/e reason, be it dogs or children.
Pretty tough, maybe. I have never been afraid of snakes or bees or spiders. I have been bit and stung. I just don't see the resulting temporary pain as being anything to matter. I could do far worse to a snake or a dog or an insect just by choosing to.
I'm not a tree hugger. I just don't see how shooting snakes is effective. Besides the fact that they eat disease spreading crop-killing rodents, there are 100 more where you shot that one snake. It's like my mother out for the blood of one wasp because it landed on me. If you have a nest under your roof, kill 'em. But making it personal against one dumb animal that isn't bothering anybody is not productive when you suffer hearing damage to do it. That is a stupid reaction.
Now a mouse in my house? That I WILL shoot. With a pump pellet gun.
Sorry for your dogs. I still wouldn't shoot a snake without putting on ears first, and I could figure out a dozen easier ways to kill a snake by the time I could find a pair of ears.
If I ever shot a snake, it would be with a 22LR rifle.
I promise, that guy in the pic didn't see the snake coming and/or he was allergic. Copperheads CHEW on you for awhile to get that much poison in. They don't even have fangs. If you are aware of it, and you are a fit adult, you have nothing to fear from a copperhead. There is no more problem, unless you make it, by losing your wits... or unless, as you have pointed out, it's a problem on your property for w/e reason, be it dogs or children.
Pretty tough, maybe. I have never been afraid of snakes or bees or spiders. I have been bit and stung. I just don't see the resulting temporary pain as being anything to matter. I could do far worse to a snake or a dog or an insect just by choosing to.
I'm not a tree hugger. I just don't see how shooting snakes is effective. Besides the fact that they eat disease spreading crop-killing rodents, there are 100 more where you shot that one snake. It's like my mother out for the blood of one wasp because it landed on me. If you have a nest under your roof, kill 'em. But making it personal against one dumb animal that isn't bothering anybody is not productive when you suffer hearing damage to do it. That is a stupid reaction.
Now a mouse in my house? That I WILL shoot. With a pump pellet gun.
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Gloob, cpperheads bite a fair number of people in Alabama every year, mostly ladies working in their flower beds. Killing one down here is really not a big deal. Neither is firing a shot every now and then without hearing protection. Copperheads do have fangs, tiny needle like fangs that inject the poison. I could have killed it with a stick but I had my gun and I like to shoot and snakes are a good excuse to shoot.
Gloob, cpperheads bite a fair number of people in Alabama every year, mostly ladies working in their flower beds. Killing one down here is really not a big deal. Neither is firing a shot every now and then without hearing protection. Copperheads do have fangs, tiny needle like fangs that inject the poison. I could have killed it with a stick but I had my gun and I like to shoot and snakes are a good excuse to shoot.
I stand corrected on the fangs. I was into snakes when I was a child. I seem to falsely recall copperheads as having a different kind of fang than other poisonous snakes. Rather than a hollow tooth that injected poison, a series of teeth that had grooves, through which the venom was "poured" rather than injected.
I can't believe this is my imagination. It must be a different snake!?
Well, marano, I have no problem with killing of a copperhead snake. They are poisonous and they can bite, but I don't see them as much different than bees. I don't kill bees, either. Now, mosquitoes? Sure, I'll go out of my way to swat a mosquito.
I can't believe this is my imagination. It must be a different snake!?
Well, marano, I have no problem with killing of a copperhead snake. They are poisonous and they can bite, but I don't see them as much different than bees. I don't kill bees, either. Now, mosquitoes? Sure, I'll go out of my way to swat a mosquito.
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