Snake Poll

[Cache]

After reading the thread about Longspur's Rattlesnake, I thought it might be interesting to see what the consensus would be about killing snakes.

[Bruin]

Any man that is afraid of snakes, is a whimp and a sissy. (Proper terminology was not used because this is a family site.)

The LAST thing I am worried about when in the woods is a snake. Spiders, now that is a different story. Spiders can get in your hair, lay eggs, and drive you insane.

[huntbigbucs]

cottonmouths have a nasty habit of dying around me due to .40 cal lead chunks falling on them. Other than that, snakes get a free pass

[Mr. Chitlin]

If they are a threat, adios. Otherwise,I let 'em slide.

[buckhorn]

Poisonous snake only die around the house. The particular pine thicket I hunt is infested with them little ground rattlers. Since I have found them anywhere from the ground to 3 feet up in the brush, none of them get a free pass.

You would be surprised how lethal a load of rat shot out of a Ruger single
six, 22 mag is.

[WinchesterModel70]

Originally Posted by Bruin

Any man that is afraid of snakes, is a whimp and a sissy. (Proper terminology was not used because this is a family site.)

The LAST thing I am worried about when in the woods is a snake. Spiders, now that is a different story. Spiders can get in your hair, lay eggs, and drive you insane.

I'll pick up five spiders but I don't even want to look at a snake. Nope, I don't care for the slithery little 's.

[bell987usn]

I can care less about a snake and spider. I hate both been biten by both.

[44]

Like I said on the other thread. Non poisonous snakes will always live to see another day and poisonous ones no matter where I'm at will eat lead or a stick. Only way poisonous snakes live is if they got away. Spiders don't bother me one bit but I have seen some people freak out more than you could imagine.

[JED]

I have been bitten twice by snakes (not counting used car salesmen as snakes) so if it is poisonous and I can help it is dead.

Now I can understand the fear of spiders. Obviously most of you missed on the news where the giant spiders are turning over 18 wheelers on the interstate and knocking airplanes out of the air. So I guess maybe spiders are the most lethal.

[seymore whitetail]

Any snake I see always seems to have lead poisoning!!

[possum]

I'll kill them in a yard type situation but other than that unless they present a threat they're safe.

[huntindoc]

A large copperhead or any rattlesnake in the yard is history. Small copperheads get relocated to the woods. Any non-poisenous snake is welcome in my yard. Poisenous snakes away from the house get a free pass as well.

[wookalark]

If I'm hunting i usually let all of them go....but any other time I kill them all..

[Buck]

Any poisonous snake dies around me.The king snakes and garter snakes get a free pass.Unless I'm showing someone the trick of grabbing a garter snake by the tail and popping its head off.

[stealthycat]

Kill snakes only when in yards or near inhabited areas

That would be the laws - every other option and you're a poacher and law breaker and your'e reacting out of unfounded fears and just being silly to be honest

FYI

[wookalark]

It feels good to be a Gangster.....

[Hobbshunter]

Only poisonous ones in the yard.

My wife will occasionally ask why I'm not killing some big ol' black or king snake around the house, and I tell her they eat the poisonous ones.

[F B]

Dang. I was just about to come to grips with the fact that Im a poacher and a lawbreaker and now I gotta deal with being silly too...

[Buck]

And thats news to you? I been tellin you that for years. Stealthy I will go a week without killin a snake if you wont turn me in to the man. I could go to prison for killin as many as I have.

[monsterman]

Dang,,,,,,,,,,sorry guys i am a silly lawbreaker,,,,,and do not really care what anybody thinks about it. There is no such thing as unfounded fear.

[coonnutz]

Used to ride the irrigation ditchs down south and do some cottonmouth exterminating

[F B]

I wonder how some of these guys would feel about killin' snakes if they spent a little time in the rice fields with you Buck? They might just see things from a little different perspective.

I was up at his farm a few years ago helping Buck do something at one of his wells.

He picked up a piece of plywood that was laying there and 4 cottonmouths were under it. How can somebody tell him he cant or shouldnt kill em and why would he give a rats rear end if they did?

He has to check those wells at night when he's pumping water and it would be bad enough knowing that I had killed 4 snakes there that morning but it would be even worse knowing that I saw 4 snakes there that morning and didnt kill em and wondering where they were at now.

Used to ride the irrigation ditchs down south and do some cottonmouth exterminating

I used to work on a minnow farm and Ive done the same thing many times.

I couldnt even guess how many snakes I shot and killed back then. Some people may not believe it but I have no doubt it would be well over a thousand.

And Im proud of every damn one of em.

[loki]

I kill poisonous snakes. I let the non-poisonous snakes live. All snakes have a function to fullfill in the wild. They cut down on the number of rodents, among other things.

[gsb77]

poisonous snakes and poisonous spiders get the same treatment wherever i find them.

[BDW]

Just about any snake around my house or in the yard gets killed. I pretty much leave the rest of them alone.

[daverhonda73]

NO snakes will be tolerated on my property!

[headhunter_60]

Originally Posted by stealthycat

Kill snakes only when in yards or near inhabited areas

That would be the laws - every other option and you're a poacher and law breaker and your'e reacting out of unfounded fears and just being silly to be honest

FYI

Haven't you seen snakes on a plane? Terrorist could use them... In all seriousness though I will kill a cottonmouth regardless, have been chased before and its no fun, and a copperhead got away from me at my lease because I didn't have my big boots on, it was running away but it turned and struck quicker than any snake I've ever seen, I let non venomous snakes go unless I'm startled and hit then or draw and shoot out a reflex movement

[sdhhunter]

only inhabited areas not in the woods.

[JED]

It would bother me if I let a poisonous snake go and then some got bitten in the vacinity fo where I let the snake go.

[bigmac7825]

I havn't seen but one snake near my house but the darn thing got away but since my incident with the copperhead during turkey season a couple years back I get rid of em if they are within 10 yards of me. I got lucky that day.