You haven’t seen any poisonous snakes in Texas.
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Snakes early this year...
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Yes, they are. Farking HUGE. My wildlife book says they run 6 to 9 inches. I swear we have a 12-incher living out back of our house. This is not my picture, but this is the dude:
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Western Green Snake. Rough Green Snake. Harmless
You know better than that. Those are HIGHLY poisonous. They actually shoot an acidic poison from their eyes. Be very afraid!
Axxe55
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Had one bite me many years ago. Very similar happened to me as did Hoji. Bad bugs.
I think I caught a little something from looking at the picture.
I dont know how many rattlesnakes I've seen hunting in AZ. Never heard 1 rattle. Saw most as I was watching where I stepped or reached. A rule most folks learn as kids in the outdoors.
I've seen Gila Monsters a few times. In the wild that's a rare privilege.
Shot one rattle snake in 40 years of hunting in AZ. I took a break from rabbit hunting and sat on a palo verde tree that died and fell over. Looked all around before I sat as they can almost dissapeared in shadows n such.
After about 2 minutes a small diamond back, about 2 feet but fat and big enough, was about 10 feet from me that I didn't see started moving right towards me.
This is early spring cause you dont hunt rabbits in the summer in the desert. Besides being nasty hot the meat is nasty. Anyways that bastard was moving fast for how cool it was and by the time it clicked in my brain what was happening I couldn't get up without falling back over the log and decided being face to face wasn't the best course of action so i grabbed my old JC Higgins 12 gage reached out and he got a face full of 6 shot mag at about 6 inches. Never found any remnants of the head but I assume it couldn't see well and was headed for a heat source.
Oh, I had one incident where I damn near shit my self. I had a job as a security guard for thus resort manufactured home community which was a few miles north in the desert from phoenix. I was sitting in the gate shack one day and felt something on my foot. I looked down and all I saw was bright red black and yellow bands slithering across my foot. I froze and it took my brain a few seconds to process that 1 this is too big for a coral snake, 2 the old red n black saying meant further proof it's not a coral snake...although that's not always true cause a couple coral snakes are only red n black with no yellow..., and 3 it's not headed up your leg so let it go.
Talk about an adrenalin rush.
Snakes are perfectly fine as long as they aren't in my space, and I determine what's my space.
I've seen Gila Monsters a few times. In the wild that's a rare privilege.
Shot one rattle snake in 40 years of hunting in AZ. I took a break from rabbit hunting and sat on a palo verde tree that died and fell over. Looked all around before I sat as they can almost dissapeared in shadows n such.
After about 2 minutes a small diamond back, about 2 feet but fat and big enough, was about 10 feet from me that I didn't see started moving right towards me.
This is early spring cause you dont hunt rabbits in the summer in the desert. Besides being nasty hot the meat is nasty. Anyways that bastard was moving fast for how cool it was and by the time it clicked in my brain what was happening I couldn't get up without falling back over the log and decided being face to face wasn't the best course of action so i grabbed my old JC Higgins 12 gage reached out and he got a face full of 6 shot mag at about 6 inches. Never found any remnants of the head but I assume it couldn't see well and was headed for a heat source.
Oh, I had one incident where I damn near shit my self. I had a job as a security guard for thus resort manufactured home community which was a few miles north in the desert from phoenix. I was sitting in the gate shack one day and felt something on my foot. I looked down and all I saw was bright red black and yellow bands slithering across my foot. I froze and it took my brain a few seconds to process that 1 this is too big for a coral snake, 2 the old red n black saying meant further proof it's not a coral snake...although that's not always true cause a couple coral snakes are only red n black with no yellow..., and 3 it's not headed up your leg so let it go.
Talk about an adrenalin rush.
Snakes are perfectly fine as long as they aren't in my space, and I determine what's my space.
Yep. Primarily insect and lizard eaters. No venom
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I’ve posted this before but this was Easter Sunday ‘19, right outside our front door. He measured right at 26”.
I’ve posted this before but this was Easter Sunday ‘19, right outside our front door. He measured right at 26”.
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Before or after he got guillotined?
I over celibrated you birthday yesterday, to the point of hair of the dog this morning.You haven’t seen any poisonous snakes in Texas.
He got a shotgun blast, didn’t quite cut him in half but stopped him immediately.
The wife walked out the front door and came right back in and said there was a snake. I expected a garter snake or something but opened the door and saw that tail sticking out.
That's a big copperhead.
Some of us would be just fine with it. Ball Pythons make great reptile companions. My daughter has several, also. One was a "rescue" we drove across town to get from some kids that were not caring for it. He is now at least six years old.
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