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- Thread starter OldAlien
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What a beautiful snake...
When I first bought my farm in Crawfordville I killed a small rattle snake. It was in my shop building and i killed it with a long metal pole. I had the farm for about 15 years and I never saw another rattle snake. I wish I had never killed it, but I was a 29 year old city boy from Atlanta and was totally freaked out by the snake and in the cowboy movies I watched as a kid and popular culture told me I should kill such creatures. I've only seen two other rattle snakes in the wild in Georgia since then. One was very large in Greene County and I got out and admired him from afar. The other was just up from the Ranger camp in Dahlonega, once again I admired him from afar.
I met an American Indian a few years back and when I told him I had killed a rattle snake he was appalled...bad medicine and all. He understood the circumstances after I explained them and said if I had thought about it more than 3 times over the years I had paid for it. I still feel bad about it and wish I had not done it and would encourage everyone who reads to think twice before killing such an amazing and beautiful creature. Just because they evoke fear in you and popular culture says they should be killed, doesn't mean you should....its....bad medicine.
I met an American Indian a few years back and when I told him I had killed a rattle snake he was appalled...bad medicine and all. He understood the circumstances after I explained them and said if I had thought about it more than 3 times over the years I had paid for it. I still feel bad about it and wish I had not done it and would encourage everyone who reads to think twice before killing such an amazing and beautiful creature. Just because they evoke fear in you and popular culture says they should be killed, doesn't mean you should....its....bad medicine.
I think the venomous snakes of the south are so pretty...maybe I will exclude the cottonmouth from that comment. I don't kill any of them...except for maybe a cottonmouth, lol.
That the biggest timber back I have ever seen
We call that a serpant .
Prolly call it steak if I see him first
Prolly call it steak if I see him first
Did not need to see that.
I'm always concerned about walking up on a snake during the warm months. Kind of helps knowing most snakebites occur while people are trying to mess with them, but still. Copperheads and Cottonmouths need to follow the rattlesnake's example and come up with an early warning system.
I'm always concerned about walking up on a snake during the warm months. Kind of helps knowing most snakebites occur while people are trying to mess with them, but still. Copperheads and Cottonmouths need to follow the rattlesnake's example and come up with an early warning system.
I was hunting in the north Georgia mountains years ago. It was bitter cold and late season. While walking down a dry creek bed I almost stepped on a copperhead sunning himself.
Fear is my 10yo son getting bit and we are an hour from a hospital. I dont feel bad about it one bit. I got struck while turkey hunting one morning, hunting by myself, half mile from truck, and a long way from any help. Thank goodness for snake boots. I kill the stew out of a venomous snake where I frequent.
