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The Snake Boot thread got me to thinking.....
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01/27/15 05:34 AM
01/27/15 05:34 AM
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Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 25,757 Locust Fork, Alabama
BC
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Freak of Nature
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Posts: 25,757
Locust Fork, Alabama
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How many of you have ever had encounters with venomous snakes while turkey hunting. I've had three.
I was hunting in a swap in the early 90's. A big storm came through and the temps fell from the mid 70's to the mid 20's overnight. I got up and went anyway and I ran the same trail that I always do to get in there. After not hearing a thing I slipped back out on that trail and lo and behold there was a nice fat cottonmouth sitting right in the middle of the trail. He was so cold he couldn't move, so I pinned his head and picked him up and cut off his head with my pruning shears. He was easier to handle by picking him up than the try and kill him on the ground.
Around 2008 I was hunting in Chambers Co Alabama. I had been fooling with a henned up gobbler all morning and I could not do anything with him. He just wasn't leaving those hens. He was slowly making his way up a logging road that bordered a really thick pine plantation. He was going away from me so I was in a no win situation. I got up and started down the road and I got to a sharp curve and I could hear him drumming right around the bend. With no other option I just decided to bust up in his party and kill him as he bugged out. I started slipping up the road walking as stealthy and quietly as I could. All I could hear was Pffffffttttttt Doooooooooooooooom just around the bend and I was totally focused on that. Then I heard a noise at my feet and I looked down and a hissing Cottonmouth was backpedaling and striking at me because I stepped on him. I just lowered the barrel and turned him into shredded meat. Don't have a clue what happened to the turkeys.
The last one is kind of boring and happened in Perry Co. N2deer and I were walking to a spot to try and just before we got there we walked up on one stretched across the road. It was a 30+ inch Copperhead. One of the biggest I have ever seen. I picked up a big pine log and brought it down on it's head. That thing started flopping around and nearly flopped right under our feet. After we both retreated back a little bit he finally quit squirming and I put the kill shot on him with that pine log.
Other than those three instances I have never had a problem with venomous snakes while turkey hunting in three decades.
"Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters."
-- Archibald Rutledge
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Re: The Snake Boot thread got me to thinking.....
[Re: BC]
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01/27/15 05:38 AM
01/27/15 05:38 AM
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Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 20,321 Northport, AL
GomerPyle
Impatient Stinky Britches Wearin’ Off-Roadin’ Guru
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The encounters I know about (I've had a couple while bowhunting) aren't the ones that concern me........
There are 3 certainties in an uncertain world:
1. All Politicians Are Liars 2. All Gun Laws Are an Infringement 3. Taxation Is Theft
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Re: The Snake Boot thread got me to thinking.....
[Re: BC]
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01/27/15 05:40 AM
01/27/15 05:40 AM
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Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 20,321 Northport, AL
GomerPyle
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I will say, a buddy of mine who is responsible for getting me hooked on turkey hunting had a close call a couple yrs ago. he was turkey hunting and walked right up on a rattlesnake. was within a step of it when he realized it. he jumped back and shot it, then started wondering why it never rattled to warn him. upon closer inspection, the snake had been injured on its tail and had no rattles. it likely "rattled" at him but you couldn't hear it.
that's the kind of chit that freaks me out.
There are 3 certainties in an uncertain world:
1. All Politicians Are Liars 2. All Gun Laws Are an Infringement 3. Taxation Is Theft
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Re: The Snake Boot thread got me to thinking.....
[Re: BC]
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01/27/15 05:45 AM
01/27/15 05:45 AM
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Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 16,022 Hartselle Al.
n2deer
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Old Mossy Horns
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Hartselle Al.
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I have had three in about 12 years.
Only one was even somewhat close. And it didn't acknowledge me being there till my buddy cracked that noggin with some number 5s.
The other two were in the road sunning.
Do you want to hear him gobble, or do you want to kill him.
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Re: The Snake Boot thread got me to thinking.....
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01/27/15 05:47 AM
01/27/15 05:47 AM
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Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 26,516 Helena
3toe
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One other comes to mind. I had roosted a bird the night before. I got in on him well before daylight, probably within 75-100 yds of his tree. I got set up in the dark and waited on daylight. After about 20 min I heard the leaves rustling to my right, at maybe 6 ft away. That got my attention. Now it was a moonless night and pitch black so I couldn't see what it was. The rustling was slow and methodical, and was moving closer. I didn't want to use my light because I had set up so close to this bird. Well, when it was about arms length I said screw it, because I was convinced it was 8ft long rattleheadedcoppermoccasin. I hit it with the light and it was the one of the biggest beetles I have ever seen. He was promptly dispatched for scaring the crap out of me.
That bird never gobbled that morning and I never saw or heard him fly down. He may have moved trees for all I know during the night.
On a side note, I wear a rubber boot or snake boot primarily because they are high. Around where I hunt you will cross water at some point, creek and streams usually. Hiking boots are not an option most of the time, unless you like soggy feet.
Last edited by 3toe; 01/27/15 06:00 AM.
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Re: The Snake Boot thread got me to thinking.....
[Re: BC]
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01/27/15 06:02 AM
01/27/15 06:02 AM
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Posts: 14,661 Tuscaloosa Co.
N2TRKYS
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I hunt wet areas and I see alot of moccasins and copperheads. The ones I don't see are the ones I'm worried about. I don't go to the woods when they are crawling without wearing snakeboots.
I need knee high snake/waterproof boots.
83% of all statistics are made up.
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Re: The Snake Boot thread got me to thinking.....
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01/27/15 08:09 AM
01/27/15 08:09 AM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,186 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
Booner
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Posts: 12,186
Sylacauga, AL
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I ain't skeered of no snake.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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