Look what the high water has flushed out

Yep, looks like the dreaded 'Driveway Mamba'. I'd give that one a wide birth for sure.


The shorter head and big eyes make it more nearly resemble a boomslang. They also tend to be a paler green than mambas, in some specimens. But does it have overtones of a spaceship alien, too? :D
 
.22 Mag in shot shell works great. A lot of experince!!!
I mow with with a revolver on me.

I hate copperheads.

Guy22
 
Boat half sunk. Filled up with water so badly that paddling was not an option. They waded out in waist deep water. His wife was mad at him for shooting the snake. He was mad at her for complaining.

Now they laugh about it. Not funny to them back then.

I still haven't lived down hitting a stump under water, almost flipping the boat and almost dumping wife in the lake, then pull starting motor with it still in gear, motor instintly catches and starts lunging forward and throwing wife out of boat into lake. She still won't go out inthe boat with me 15 years later.
 
Wait...What?

So I think that VM guy wouldn't shoot a snake because it reminds him of Justin Beaver....

GF

i wouldnt harm a snake or any thing else that isnt bothering me. why the propensity for killing?
 
Faulkner's post #1 is a pic of some type of non-poisonous water snake. A really big one at that. --shriek! Stiab's post #55 shows a very poisonous young cottonmouth. Note the black streak behind its eye. --two shrieks and a jump!

A snake will never catch me. I will be running over solid ground and the snake will be crawling through ----. However, a .38 shot cartridge from a 4" Model 10 has worked for me in the past. That is, in those few cases I have stopped running.
 
I know...

...a lot about the Great Dismal Swamp as I worked there for 20 years. Its other name is Washington, DC and it IS full of snakes. Guns aren't allowed there.
 
...a lot about the Great Dismal Swamp as I worked there for 20 years. Its other name is Washington, DC and it IS full of snakes. Guns aren't allowed there.

Unless you're one of the snakes. Then the laws don't apply.
 
I can promise you that the first pic is no Cotton Mouth.
Folks I grew up a snake killer and have had the pleasure of examining dead snakes up close--all kinds.
they are all poison til I kill em----keep your cards and letters---I kill snakes and best I can tell I have not put a dent in the population yet.
Most snakes have a triangular head---but when you see a rattler/Cotton Mouth/Copper Head up close you will never ever take a water snake fop poisonous.
Don't think for a moment a rattlesnake can't swim.
Blessings
 
Actually that happened to a local insurance agent. He and his wife were fishing on one of the local lakes and got next to some brush with their boat. A large cottonmouth fell into the floor of the boat. The man promptly shot the snake with his 38spl but it took three shots.

A few words of advice, bullets travel through snakes rather easily. They also make holes in a flat bottom wooden boat. Wooden boats sink faster than one can paddle.

...grab, toss, and Pray! Not necessarily in that order!!!
 
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