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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: Jingles on April 19, 2015, 12:26:14 PM

Title: Shoot No Shoot????
Post by: Jingles on April 19, 2015, 12:26:14 PM: Ok how many would shoot verses not shoot
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Post by: RadSav on April 19, 2015, 12:32:32 PM: 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.
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Post by: lokidog on April 19, 2015, 12:32:58 PM: Depends how much it startled me. :chuckle: But probably not. I've always wanted to try rattlesnake though.
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Post by: Jingles on April 19, 2015, 12:47:33 PM: Problem with these cotton mouths is they have hit ya before you even know they are in the area
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Post by: lokidog on April 19, 2015, 12:57:15 PM: Where's the pic from? If I saw that snake here, boom since we are way out of its normal range.
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Post by: RadSav on April 19, 2015, 01:20:44 PM: 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 :rolleyes:
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Post by: raydog on April 19, 2015, 04:44:16 PM: This!
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Post by: Johnb317 on April 19, 2015, 04:53:50 PM: 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)
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Post by: floatinghat on April 24, 2015, 09:26:48 PM: 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.
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Post by: lamrith on April 25, 2015, 07:41:36 AM: Quote from: floatinghat on April 24, 2015, 09:26:48 PM

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...
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Post by: GBoyd on April 25, 2015, 08:15:01 AM: 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.
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Post by: greenhead_killer on April 25, 2015, 08:29:24 AM: I'm with Ray on this one. Torch it. Hate snakes
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Post by: jeffro on April 25, 2015, 08:57:33 AM: 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.
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Post by: fastdam on April 25, 2015, 12:24:43 PM: I would stomp it till its head was off. Then move on
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Post by: floatinghat on May 01, 2015, 12:14:48 PM: Quote from: jeffro on April 25, 2015, 08:57:33 AM
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
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on May 01, 2015, 12:23:06 PM: The only one I've ever seen flashed its white mouth at me from a face-level tree branch about 10 feet away while I was paddling front position of a canoe in a little stream in the Ozarks. I paddled hard in reverse and yelled "reverse", my partner did not and just yelled "what?" - so I whacked it with my paddle and beat it to death on the water with repeated paddle smacks. It was probably just being defensive, but I don't regret killing it.

I do like snakes, even the other venomous North American species - but even before that encounter I disliked cottonmouths, and that never changed.
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Post by: Woodchuck on May 01, 2015, 12:26:11 PM: frag it :tup:
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Post by: pianoman9701 on May 01, 2015, 12:26:49 PM: Kill it and then dine on it. :drool:
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Post by: mburrows on May 01, 2015, 12:29:37 PM: Quote from: jeffro on April 25, 2015, 08:57:33 AM
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.

What a genius..natural selection almost got him.
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Post by: Jonathan_S on May 01, 2015, 01:20:02 PM: "Leave them be, they eat mice"

Everything eats mice. Plus I'd rather have 1,000 mice in my barn than one rattler or cottonmouth.
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Post by: Hunterman on May 09, 2015, 09:28:42 AM: KILL IT!

Hunterman(Tony)
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Post by: ghosthunter on May 09, 2015, 10:08:23 AM: When hunting I generally have my rifle ,a judge , and my LCP.
If I see that I am unloading and going back to camp for more ammo. :yike:
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Post by: trophyhunt on May 09, 2015, 10:15:45 AM: Quote from: Jonathan_S on May 01, 2015, 01:20:02 PM
"Leave them be, they eat mice"

Everything eats mice. Plus I'd rather have 1,000 mice in my barn than one rattler or cottonmouth.
:chuckle: Have to agree with that!
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Post by: tgomez on May 10, 2015, 10:46:27 AM: He's getting a head full of 12 guage Winchester Super X 3". The only snake I like is "THE BLACKMAMBA" (Kobe Bryant) :chuckle: