Rattlesnake

[duckman1911]

Originally Posted by sugardad

Snakes creep me out, only reptile on earth that does. We worked on our lease last weekend and didn't come across not even a cottonmouth in the basin. Went back to the camp to pick up Sunday afternoon and a 6-7ft egg/rat snake came out of no where on our slab by the camp door, I was actually calm about, but it kept trying to go under the camp, I had a briar hook trying to scoop it up and go throw it in the woods a few 100 yds away, well it kept striking at me after bout 5 minutes I had enough so I killed it. I know that's a good snake to have around but done found 2 in my camp last year and didn't want my wife and kids to meet up with that next time they come for the weekend. Sorry snake guys....

Got no problem killing one if it could cause an issue. Scaring the family is an issue in my book. Other than that I'm not bothered by them. Cottonmoths are a different story though. I despise those tempermental bas tards. Yeah that may make me a hypocrite but I'm fine with that. Just something about a nasty cottonmouth that makes it need killin. Pretty and mean is one thing but ugly and mean can't be tolerated.