Osage Roost
General Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: ronmexico on January 24, 2010, 08:35:22 PM
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my brother was down in sw georgia this weekend and about lost his dog. he, his 2 girls and his dog were walking down to the pond and murray (the dog) ran ahead of my brother and went onto the dock. as he did, my brother looked up and saw something laying on the dock, right where his dog just ran past. my brother yelled at murray, who turned around and ran right past the object, what turned out to be a snake. when the dog got back on land, my brother grabbed a large log and tossed it on the snake, which was a large cotton mouth. he then went up to it and beat it to death with a metal pole. fortunately it was 45 degrees and the snake was very lethargic. the snake measured 4 feet 2 inches long.
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Wow! That is unusual to see one at that temp!
Mike
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I can't stand those creatures......
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Blake thats crazy...so is the weather here in Savannah! I've been in shorts and flip-flops for the last week!. I think tomorrow or the next will be getting chilly though.
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Wow! That is unusual to see one at that temp!
Mike
i know, i had to take out a timber rattler 3 years ago in about the same temp. it was one of the colder opening weekends of deer season i can remember and i had shot a buck the day before and we lost the blood trail. the next morning when i finished my morning hunt, i went cruising around looking to see if i could stumble upon the deer. i had given my gun to a buddy, who was going to help load up a doe that another friend had shot. as luck would have it, i ended up walking up on a 3.5 ft rattler, which i turned my lost deer frustration on and beat it to death with a stick.
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I can't stand those creatures......
Killem all. *aah*
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Wow! That is unusual to see one at that temp!
Mike
That is for sure......... most of the time.
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I was crossing a creek down in a swamp in Mississippi three years ago on a turkey hunt in March. I was just putting my foot down and my son grabbed my shoulder. I was stepping right onto a cotton mouth. His mouth was open and ready to bite. He was about as big around as my forearm, and I am a big guy. It was real cool that morning and that was the only thing that kept him from biting me. I will not hunt down there ever again without snake boots. I did not have them on that trip.
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I can't stand those creatures......
Killem all. *aah*
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I was crossing a creek down in a swamp in Mississippi three years ago on a turkey hunt in March. I was just putting my foot down and my son grabbed my shoulder. I was stepping right onto a cotton mouth. His mouth was open and ready to bite. He was about as big around as my forearm, and I am a big guy. It was real cool that morning and that was the only thing that kept him from biting me. I will not hunt down there ever again without snake boots. I did not have them on that trip.
you are lucky. my brother said this one was about the size of his forearm as well. i've never seen a 4+ ft cotton mouth before.
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I despise snakes!!!! Big time !!! That could have been a big disaster!!!
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I was crossing a creek down in a swamp in Mississippi three years ago on a turkey hunt in March. I was just putting my foot down and my son grabbed my shoulder. I was stepping right onto a cotton mouth. His mouth was open and ready to bite. He was about as big around as my forearm, and I am a big guy. It was real cool that morning and that was the only thing that kept him from biting me. I will not hunt down there ever again without snake boots. I did not have them on that trip.
you are lucky. my brother said this one was about the size of his forearm as well. i've never seen a 4+ ft cotton mouth before.
They are rare at that size but have seen a few. A good friend of mine was bite by cotton mouth that was said to be that big when we were in the 8th grade. She was in the hospital for weeks and nearly lost her life. Was on a girl Scouting camp out.
Mike
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Man oh Man!!!!!
I hate snakes! *up* *up* *up* *up*
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Man oh Man!!!!!
I hate snakes! *up* *up* *up* *up*
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Jon
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I can't stand those creatures......
Meeeeeee toooooo!!!! *wha* Id still be there beating it with a metal pole!!!
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Did someone say SNAKE..........................................?
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/GR8CALLS/cb.jpg)
Bill
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Bill, I think I'd stillbe running if I came across that one. Getting the heebeegeebee's just looking at the pic. BTW, what's the yelper around your neck in that pic?
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Bill,
Where did you kill that one?? Man, I hate those things. That one has to be over 6 feet long.
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George
The #1 Slider by Frank Hegler.
The Cane Break pictured is one of the prettiest Rattle Snakes I have seen. For those of you unfamiliar w/ the Cane Break.........further North, we call them Timber Rattlers!
Bill
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That one came from Georgia!
Bill
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Gotcha Bill, Thanks.
Saw a few timber rattlers when I lived in Wisconsin, but none that big *fall*
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That one came from Georgia!
Bill
that's a big one.
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about wet myself there. You are CRAZY holding that thing...
I hate snakes!!!
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Yep Bill, I'd be smiling too if I got him before he got me!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mike