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Stan, Billy videoed a huge Eastern last turkey season about a quarter mile from our dove field up near your way. He let it crawl away. 179 days until opening day of dove season, Sept 7th., high noon. Gil
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I don't kill 'em either, less they're real close to dwellings or where I work regularly. They've got a tough life, I admire them.
177 days and a wake-up. Seems like a lifetime!
Great show on NatGeo tonight about the Eastern, called "King Rattler". Very well done.
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snakewise, I'm with Stan. But you can't have them any place where there are unsupervised kids.
FBI Uniform Crime Stats lists the great majority of snakebites as "alcohol related." Bubba the Herpetologist? (Everybody knows beer gives you lightning fast reactions....the more the quicker!).
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FBI Uniform Crime Stats lists the great majority of snakebites as "alcohol related." Bubba the Herpetologist? (Everybody knows beer gives you lightning fast reactions....the more the quicker!). Bite is usually preceded with this or an equivalent spoken phrase: "Hey, y'all, watch this!"
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snakewise, I'm with Stan. But you can't have them any place where there are unsupervised kids.
FBI Uniform Crime Stats lists the great majority of snakebites as "alcohol related." Bubba the Herpetologist? (Everybody knows beer gives you lightning fast reactions....the more the quicker!). There was a gentleman on TV about a year ago who had been bitten on the tongue. Said there was a LARGE amount of alcohol involved. God looks out for fools, I guess. Could only imagine him walking into the ER with a turniquet (sp) on his tongue but he seemed okay when interviewed.
Last edited by Cary; 03/15/13 12:39 PM.
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Sometimes Nature's punishment fits the crime....
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Over the years I have noticed that many bites are indeed alcohol related, no surprise there, but many are children. Some reports say as many as half are children. It is not rare, either, for snake handling preachers in Virginia and W. Virginia to die from rattler bites. Children are the only innocents here, IMO.
I have been extremely blessed not to have been bitten. I am in snaky habitat much of the time, while farming here in Georgia and S. Carolina, and have had some real close calls with rattlers. The last close call was three years ago. I killed a big canebrake rattler under a center pivot, in tall thick ryegrass early one morning while starting up a pivot. I credit the fact that I saw him to a dream I had, two nights previous, about a rattler. It was on my mind and I was looking carefully. Ordinarily I don't look that close.
An old rattler is not aggressive at all, tho'. They will run if given half a chance. If you're in a place where there is food for them (mice, rats), be extra careful.
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I don't kill 'em either, less they're real close to dwellings or where I work regularly. They've got a tough life, I admire them.
SRH Back in the mid 70's when I lived in a mobile home on lot rented from a farmer in Peach County Georgia near Fort Valley I opened the back door to be greeted by the open white mouth of a water moccasin. I quickly closed the door to get my 12 gauge Ithaca pump and returned for the "dispatch". I did have to replace a couple of cinder block "steps" that I dispatched along with the snake. My steps counts as real close to my dwelling so I sent him to heaven. When my oldest girl was about four I took her fishing at a friend's pond and on our return to the car a 6' rattler was right by the drivers door of my car. I sent him to heaven with my .357. Otherwise I leave them to mind their own business.
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Parker Trojan and double on doves at Turnbridge Plantation, Levy, SC 
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Mills,nice shooting and gun. Gil 
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