Venomous Snake Encounters

Veblen · Sep 11, 2019

Anyone bump into rattlers or copperheads in MD this year while scouting or hunting? So far, I have been fortunate (i.e., no encounters), but I wanted to get data (e.g., terrain, region, time of day) from other hunters.

bigjohn · Sep 11, 2019

Copperhead on the mid shore yesterday. No longer with us

DCSCO · Sep 11, 2019

In NC, beating woods back with a lawn mower, saw a Copperhead slither into a wood pile. Keep a revolver with rat shot with me. We are at peak season for snakebites.

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Doco Overboard · Sep 11, 2019

They had a rattlesnake in the Home Depot in Pa the other day. It was about 3-4’ long. Somebody spotted it luckily before it was disturbed.

Derwood · Sep 11, 2019

Several copperheads in Dorchester fishing a few weeks ago.

tatoocrab · Sep 11, 2019

Got a cooperhead last friday north Calvert County used snake tongs and put in bucket with a lid.
Called DNR thinking they would relocate gave me a big NO. So illegal to kill in MD but I have to
take the risk of finding it a new home!

Bikebreath · Sep 11, 2019

bigjohn said:
Copperhead on the mid shore yesterday. No longer with us

What’s the point of dispatching if you can’t rid us of all of them?

Flametamer · Sep 11, 2019

Found another copperhead in the yard while mowing Saturday. Found and ate a rattler while in the mountains of Commiefornia last month. Tasty!

Alan3413 · Sep 11, 2019

tatoocrab said:
Got a cooperhead last friday north Calvert County used snake tongs and put in bucket with a lid.
Called DNR thinking they would relocate gave me a big NO. So illegal to kill in MD but I have to
take the risk of finding it a new home!

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Seems appropriate

BigRick · Sep 11, 2019

I find copperheads all the time near my house in Calvert. I simple scoop them up with a snake hook put them in a bucket with a lid and let them go in the woods far enough away from anything or anyone they could bite.

bigdv · Sep 11, 2019

I have black snakes, garter snakes, green snakes and ring neck snakes at my place in Calvert. Have not spotted anything venomous........... yet (although I believe ring necked snakes are slightly venomous)

Mike3888 · Sep 11, 2019

I came across this timber rattler in central pa a few weeks back, pretty common where I’m at. Probably 48” to 52” and fat as hell.

davsco · Sep 11, 2019

would love to see pics of the copperheads. sure you guys know what you're talking about, but every time someone points out a copperhead to me, it's a water snake. golfing with a guy a few weeks back, said one (water snake) was a water moccasin (out in canaan valley no less)...

Mike3888 · Sep 11, 2019

davsco said:
would love to see pics of the copperheads. sure you guys know what you're talking about, but every time someone points out a copperhead to me, it's a water snake. golfing with a guy a few weeks back, said one (water snake) was a water moccasin (out in canaan valley no less)...

Here is one that got under my tire last summer.

remrug · Sep 11, 2019

I have been hunting and fishing in Md since the 70s.In all those years,I have only seen 1 venomous snake.I was driving through Green Ridge in May about 25 years ago.There was a large snake sunning itself in the road.I got out and checked it out.It was definitely a rattle snake.It coiled up and buzzed at me.I pinned its head with a stick and was going to handle it,but since I was a good ways back in and was by myself,I just let it go.

I have seen plenty of other snakes,garters,blacks,water snakes,corn and milk snakes etc. But never found a copperhead.

PS Even tho Im not afraid of snakes, I wear snake boots when turkey hunting in warmer weather just in case

herkybird72 · Sep 11, 2019

Copperhead vs 9mm in my driveway

Striper69 · Sep 13, 2019

There are Timber Rattlers here In Nebraska/Iowa. I hunt in Nebraska and I'm wary of them when I hunt the cornfields this weekend.

delaware_export · Sep 13, 2019

This story from the Georgia hunting magazine site. Would stir folks up good first hand.

We had all kinds of snakes on the farm there, a lot of racers which are not poisonous. And saw lots of sheds from rattlers and copperheads. But only ever saw one copper head there myself. A little, one dead, run over on the road.

Unlike home in Delaware, hunting in places with things that could kill or eat ya, makes you think a little different about hunting.

https://www.gon.com/news/50-rattlesnakes-discovered-in-upson-county-hunt-camp

tatoocrab · Sep 14, 2019

Calvert copperhead release

Veblen · Oct 1, 2019

My first encounter of the year was at dusk on a road alongside a creek. Copperhead. What was scary was that I nearly stepped right on it; their pattern works well in shadows / low-light.

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