Snake season

Joe, Bleu told me you were so mean you would spit tobacco in a rattlers eye than grab him up and than bite his head off than pi$$ down his throat, if so I will bow to you as I would be on top of any thing I could get on, hate snakes. Poor sister got bitten by a brown recluse spider a few weeks ago in Missouri, just came back from visiting family there. She told me it had healed up some and let me tell you you could have put a golf ball in the hole and you would not have been able to see it
 
Since we are on the subject of snakes. Ran into this guy at a NSTRA field trial by Savage, MT a year ago. It was only a Bull snake.

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Dang, that's a big snake! Bull snakes can be a bit feisty too!:eek:

Just so I don't get a bad reputation, I am very kind to all snakes and spiders that I don't perceive as a threat to the safety of the family (dogs included in family). In fact, I have a contact at KSU Vet Med, I offered to trap the copperheads and give them to KSU if they could use them for anything. The response was, "ummm, no thanks." :laugh: So I guess I'm just collecting them until I get enough for a nice pair of cowboy boots at this point... :laugh:

There was a big hatch of baby toads here a couple weeks ago from the pond up the road. Baby toads were everywhere, thick as grasshoppers. So I'm guessing the increased activity of the copperheads was probably due to toad hunting. Ironic...:cheers:
 
I came back from a week on the road, and you are right,...baby toads everywhere.

I did also see some pretty big snakes on the road last night driving back to town. Must have been out trying to stay warm longer with the cool temps.
 
copheasanthunter said:
Joe, Bleu told me you were so mean you would spit tobacco in a rattlers eye than grab him up and than bite his head off than pi$$ down his throat, if so I will bow to you as I would be on top of any thing I could get on, hate snakes. Poor sister got bitten by a brown recluse spider a few weeks ago in Missouri, just came back from visiting family there. She told me it had healed up some and let me tell you you could have put a golf ball in the hole and you would not have been able to see it
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I have been known to catch a few while hunting dove. My buddy thought he might like to have it in an aquarium!!! LOL!! Needless to say we didn't make it home with the snake. He has a new home at an old abandoned farmstead just North of St. Francis. That was when I was quick as lightning and took catching snakes seriously. I was bit one time by handling a 6 foot Bull snake and he latched on to the meat of my thumb and had a heck of a time getting him off of there. Seen the most rattlers in S.D. hunting outside of Chamberlain in the hills. They were starting to den up and I heard my buddy going through the shells pretty fast. When I got there , he was just about out of ammo freaking out and just emptying his gun all around his feet. I got within 25 yds of him and the grass just lit up with rattles. They were every where. I backed out and my buddy shot his way out to me. You can't even tease GCB about snakes. It is like talking bad about his Mother!!! Something bad must of happened to him as a child!!!:D:D:D

This is how high Ol' Joe jumps when he see's a snake!!
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SetterNut said:
I came back from a week on the road, and you are right,...baby toads everywhere.

I did also see some pretty big snakes on the road last night driving back to town. Must have been out trying to stay warm longer with the cool temps.
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Think the only thing that will eat a toad is a Hognose although it is fun to watch a pup try. Was told copperheads like to eat cicadas when they are out. Was also told by an old guy that if you burn a copperhead that others will not come back...probably the same guy that saw 100 birds a day on walk in around Dodge area last year.
 
I hate snakes! Saw a timber ratteler once that must have been 10 feet long.:eek: They are pretty good eats though but skinning them is no fun.
 
I read two bites from Cotton mouths. I didn't think they were this far north. Wonder if they were in the KC area.......
 
You guy's can have them all!!!! I have never seen anything poisonous except rattlers and that is nice only to deal with one kind. There may be some others down South, but I have never seen any other kind that were poisonous!!! As long as I can see them, they are not a problem. Unless they are starting to den up and there are hundreds! Then panic sets in!! I had no idea you guy's had so many different serpents!!!!!!:eek:
 
Anybody know what kind of snake this is? It was in my driveway this morning. It was nice to find a snake that wasn't a copperhead... :laugh:
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I couldn't find it in a field guide. Wondering if maybe it is a juvenile version of something that looks much different as an adult.:confused:

The closest thing I can see for this region is the red milk snake, but I didn't see pic that looked quite like this one...
 
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Man you guy's got to many snakes!!! Looks like a Milk Snake?????
 
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looks like a king snake to me, be nice too it. the reverse colors would indicate a coral snake, one to stay away from.

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Gray banded king snake. Ours are just black and white but they have a taste for rattlers.:cheers:
 
quail hound said:
Gray banded king snake. Ours are just black and white but they have a taste for rattlers.:cheers:
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I don't think gray banded range in Kansas. Kings and Milk snakes are in the same family and have a wide range of color variations and they do eat other snakes including CopperHeads.. Here is a photo of a Central plains Milk snake.
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