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Offline firedup

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Why snake boots???
« on: May 10, 2011, 07:30:46 PM »
Poor ole Jeff is obviously under a lot of stress rite now so I thought I mite divert some of the focus for a sec...

This is why we wear our "knee hi's". These are WV pics. Thought I had a couple of pics Parrish's pet cottonmouth here somewhere but... :-\

This one was laying beside the road when I pulled up. Glad he was on the passenger side!


This one was set to nail one of my water samplers. Just saw him in the nick of time. He was head back and cocked.


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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2011, 07:34:44 PM »
We don't allow them up here in Marion county. *lol*
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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2011, 07:48:25 PM »
Never seen one in the woods and glad of it! My older brother hunted only 2 days this year, he saw so many snakes, he wouldn't go anymore.

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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2011, 08:04:02 PM »
I will not go turkey hunting without my snake boots. I had way too close a call with a cottonmouth as big around as my arm about 5 years ago in Mississippi. I was about two miles from the truck and stepping down in some water when my son saw his white mouth open and getting ready to strike. My son grabbed my arm and pulled me back. I had regular boots on that day and was had. Plain and simple.

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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2011, 09:33:51 PM »
I will not go turkey hunting without my snake boots. I had way too close a call with a cottonmouth as big around as my arm about 5 years ago in Mississippi. I was about two miles from the truck and stepping down in some water when my son saw his white mouth open and getting ready to strike. My son grabbed my arm and pulled me back. I had regular boots on that day and was had. Plain and simple.

Rickey Charlie Parrish and I were talking about cottonmouths today and he said the ones in Florida are real docile and not aggressive...  I know the ones up here are bad to the bones violent!!!

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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2011, 06:29:49 AM »
LT those are some nice un's! Be safe!

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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2011, 11:11:15 AM »
oh my----feel like I have been shot at !!!!!!  That Timber ran into a big stick didnt it ??? Only good snake in my world is a DEAD ONE !!!!
I have had my feet in alot of places this year, and this is a first....I anm yet to run into one so far----its a first and I know the odds are getting greater its about to happen...they are where I hunt, cant figure my not seeing one yet....
I hat those things---people say they are not aggresive....bull $#@$ !!!!
Glad it was on the passanger side man----
didnt need to see the pic though---I am shaking just from that---got ole no shoulders on my mind now !!!!
Keep a close watch where you are going and keep those boots laced up "high and tight" man !!!!

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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2011, 03:27:09 PM »
Jeff come to S.  Ga i  can  take  ya  ta  see  one....or   2... *lol*
how  bout  this lil  fella.... *lol*

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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2011, 04:49:07 PM »
lots of THOSE $#@ things are about the only thing that will keep me from wanting to hunt----
I would even pick up a DEAD one !!!!

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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2011, 06:27:36 PM »
lots of THOSE $#@ things are about the only thing that will keep me from wanting to hunt----
I would even pick up a DEAD one !!!!


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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2011, 07:07:23 PM »
i  was  2   ft  from  stepin  on  it  rabbit   huntin  luckily  it  was  Feb.  and  cool....im 6  ft   and  he   was   missin   bout  8  to  10  in.  of  him   in  the  pic

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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2011, 07:58:15 PM »
Good pics, LT


YUM,YUM looks like some good eatin' there Muddpuppi..fire up the grill!

Mike, I didn't say they were docile..I said they won't bite most of the time...but they act bad..just cause a snake is crawling toward you don't mean he is gonna bite you.
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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2011, 05:05:06 PM »
I will not go turkey hunting without my snake boots. I had way too close a call with a cottonmouth as big around as my arm about 5 years ago in Mississippi. I was about two miles from the truck and stepping down in some water when my son saw his white mouth open and getting ready to strike. My son grabbed my arm and pulled me back. I had regular boots on that day and was had. Plain and simple.

Rickey Charlie Parrish and I were talking about cottonmouths today and he said the ones in Florida are real docile and not aggressive...  I know the ones up here are bad to the bones violent!!!
I am a forester in Alabama and live one mile from Florida.The only docile cottonmouths I have ever seen were dead. I have never come up on one that wasn't ready for a fight.

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Re: Why snake boots???
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2011, 05:20:39 PM »
Good pics, LT


YUM,YUM looks like some good eatin' there Muddpuppi..fire up the grill!

Mike, I didn't say they were docile..I said they won't bite most of the time...but they act bad..just cause a snake is crawling toward you don't mean he is gonna bite you.

Charlie I think are cottonmouth and yours are not much alike...  darn things will literally chase you around here..  I hate them!!!  As RAJ said, a dead one is the only way they are docile here! 

Of course Gators don't bother you either :)