Shoot No Shoot????

[Jingles]

Ok how many would shoot  verses not shoot

[RadSav]

Leave him to keep eating more mice/fish!  Now if he were a rattler...I might shoot since the only thing I'd use 'em for is traditional bow faces.  Cottons are too ugly for that!

Are you in the SE right now?  Didn't think there were any of those this side of the Mississippi.

[lokidog]

Depends how much it startled me.     But probably not.  I've always wanted to try rattlesnake though.

[Jingles]

Problem with these cotton mouths is they have hit ya before you even know they are in the area

[lokidog]

Where's the pic from?  If I saw that snake here, boom since we are way out of its normal range.

[RadSav]

I don't know if it is true or not, but when I was hunting Mississippi the locals told me their bite was 10X more dangerous than Copperheads or Diamondbacks.  But that the Cotton mouths were not aggressive like the other two only striking if provoked.  So not to worry unless I stepped on one or was messing with one.  They also said that the Cotton Mouth would usually dry strike as a warning first. 

Again, I have no idea if what they said was true or not, but it did make me feel a little better about walking to my stand

[raydog]

This!

[Johnb317]

I'm going to have nightmares just from the picture!
Had a big timber rattler cross the trail in front of us one time in Idaho.
Got off the horse, took a picture, and let him be. 
Not a fan of things that slither, or sting (different story)

[floatinghat]

Rattler I would let go.  I have some friends from the south who say CM are mean and will follow a short distance... Think its BS, but I would watch him.  If I saw him twice the second would be the last.

[lamrith]

Rattler I would let go.  I have some friends from the south who say CM are mean and will follow a short distance... Think its BS, but I would watch him.  If I saw him twice the second would be the last.

I have heard the same thing, CM are mean as hell and will charge/pursue for short distances.  They tend to attack rather than coil up and hide, and bite anything that comes near them...

[GBoyd]

Yeah, I would kill it. Maybe not the PC and ecological thing to do, but that's what we did growing up and it would be hard to break the habit.

A related thought though: I have a friend who doesn't kill scorpions. She just lops off the stinger with the tip of her machete. The theory is that they still hang around her house and eat bugs and occupy the niche so other scorpions don't move in. It seems to work.

If that were possible with venomous snakes, I would try that.

[greenhead_killer]

I'm with Ray on this one. Torch it. Hate snakes

[jeffro]

Maybe catch it and try to give it a kiss?

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/flo...snake/32503078
WIMAUMA, Fla. - A Hillsborough County man is recovering after being bitten in the face by a water moccasin.
Investigators say 18-year-old Austin Hatfield captured the 4-foot-long cottonmouth while swimming last week.
Friends say the teen was trying to kiss the snake when it struck, biting him on the lip.
Hatfield was taken to the hospital in critical condition but is expected to make a full recovery.
Cottonmouth snakes, sometimes called water moccasins, are extremely dangerous.

[fastdam]

I would stomp it till its head was off. Then move on

[floatinghat]

Maybe catch it and try to give it a kiss?

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/flo...snake/32503078
WIMAUMA, Fla. - A Hillsborough County man is recovering after being bitten in the face by a water moccasin.
Investigators say 18-year-old Austin Hatfield captured the 4-foot-long cottonmouth while swimming last week.
Friends say the teen was trying to kiss the snake when it struck, biting him on the lip.
Hatfield was taken to the hospital in critical condition but is expected to make a full recovery.
Cottonmouth snakes, sometimes called water moccasins, are extremely dangerous.

Nomination for a Darwin Award, that is among the stupidest things I have heard in awhile