Post by: wolfbait on July 24, 2018, 04:50:30 PM
Still not as bad as the first year I lived here, with 78.
Talking to others around the Valley, seems they are having the same trouble. Time to visit the snake dens in the fall & spring.
Idabooner knows the country..
Post by: Woodhunter on July 24, 2018, 05:52:34 PM
I grew up in the SE Georgia pine barrens and swamps. Big Diamondbacks up to 8 ft long. The scariest were the big cottonmouths. Laying next to a log and you never saw one, the camo was excellent. Killed one that weighed 29 pounds.
Post by: Hilltop123 on July 24, 2018, 06:40:22 PM
Fangy types with venom?And this is why, when I got out of the Army. I swore to never go back to the South. Nice people, pretty country but you folks down there have a snake and bug problem. Bugs as big as a grown mans fist.
I grew up in the SE Georgia pine barrens and swamps. Big Diamondbacks up to 8 ft long. The scariest were the big cottonmouths. Laying next to a log and you never saw one, the camo was excellent. Killed one that weighed 29 pounds.
Post by: teanawayslayer on July 24, 2018, 07:58:45 PM
isn’t that the truth!Fangy types with venom?And this is why, when I got out of the Army. I swore to never go back to the South. Nice people, pretty country but you folks down there have a snake and bug problem. Bugs as big as a grown mans fist.
I grew up in the SE Georgia pine barrens and swamps. Big Diamondbacks up to 8 ft long. The scariest were the big cottonmouths. Laying next to a log and you never saw one, the camo was excellent. Killed one that weighed 29 pounds.
Post by: Man Tracker on July 24, 2018, 08:20:50 PM
Post by: pianoman9701 on July 25, 2018, 06:37:54 AM
Post by: wolfbait on July 25, 2018, 10:13:42 AM
The snakes I have been killing aren't the big ones we use to kill around here, and they don't seem to be rattling very long or very loud.
In August they don't seem to rattle at all, anyone else notice that?
This is the last one I killed yesterday by the door.
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Post by: pianoman9701 on July 25, 2018, 10:18:45 AM
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Post by: cbond3318 on July 25, 2018, 11:17:01 AM
Post by: Jonathan_S on July 25, 2018, 11:18:11 AM
Stay safe and strike first :guns:
Post by: optic2 on July 25, 2018, 03:21:32 PM
Post by: outdooraddict on July 25, 2018, 06:03:02 PM
Post by: wolfbait on July 25, 2018, 06:52:20 PM
Where in the world do you live wolfbait, did i read ur post correct, 78 the first yr? I will definitely stay far far away from that area.
Foothills of McClure MT, it's definitely slowed down around my place here since I moved here, I think they learn to go around.
First five years I lived here, I learned to never leave the door open on anything. Had one crawl up on the the axle of of the truck, it rode to town and back, and when I pulled into the yard, my dog started making a fuss, she stuck her head up under the front fender and yelped, I didn't know what from so I took a look and looked into the eyes of a snake at about 6 inches, I had a bald spot on my head for awhile where I scraped the fender pulling back.
Managed to get the snake out, 3 plus ft, then realized it had bit my dog just under the eye, she was in pretty bad pain for three days or so.
In the fall/spring there is a place on the upper end of the Golden Doe, where the ground crawls with snakes, I have heard of a few people who were going across that stretch and were afraid to move once the buzzing started, terrible feeling. Over the years I have rode through there in the fall and killed several with birdshot.
I have killed some huge ones on top of McClure in the late summer early fall bear hunting. Drops into Booth canyon which is also a snake infested mess, Booth use to me good deer hunting in the later part of the season when snow hit the high country.
Last time I hunted Booth I road in the night before, woke up just before daylight, saddle the mule and rode to a spot I like where I can really glass. Not long after daylight there was orange everywhere, never went back.
P-man, I haven't been hungry enough to consider eating a snake..
Post by: Woodhunter on July 26, 2018, 06:13:01 AM
Fangy types with venom?And this is why, when I got out of the Army. I swore to never go back to the South. Nice people, pretty country but you folks down there have a snake and bug problem. Bugs as big as a grown mans fist.
I grew up in the SE Georgia pine barrens and swamps. Big Diamondbacks up to 8 ft long. The scariest were the big cottonmouths. Laying next to a log and you never saw one, the camo was excellent. Killed one that weighed 29 pounds.
Yep. I was born in Brunswick, GA, right on the coast. Nice fishing but too many nasty critters. And too much social unrest.
My last duty station in the Military was McChord AFB, Tacoma. Like you, I did not want to go back to the south, I got a job in Port Angeles and stayed. This was in 1976.
Post by: pianoman9701 on July 26, 2018, 06:22:04 AM
They're pretty good.
Post by: yakimanoob on July 26, 2018, 08:49:49 AM
Joked with my wife that it's easy to forget that we grew up in the jungle, literally. We don't tend to use that term 'round these parts, but when I visited Nicaragua and went hiking in the official jungle, the similarities were striking.
Post by: Idabooner on July 29, 2018, 07:44:01 AM
I usually don't start killing snakes until August. I have been killing one a week for the last three weeks, and then today I killed two by the house, and missed another as it shot down a hole under the foundation.I used to own 80 acres of pasture next to where wolfbait's place is. We would get a snake or more every time we went up there, the place was crawling with them. Always carried a 357 or 38 loaded with #9 shot hand loads. The worst experience I had with snakes was when the kids and I were cutting some trail, the step daughter went exploring off a ways, I heard her screaming and screaming, I went tearing over there and she was two feet off the ground up on some brush, a big rattler buzzing right under her feet, had her in it's sights, no way I could get closer than 6-8 feet because of brush so I told her to look a way in-case of pellets ricochet from the brush. Got a good shot on the snake and no pellets in her legs.
Still not as bad as the first year I lived here, with 78.
Talking to others around the Valley, seems they are having the same trouble. Time to visit the snake dens in the fall & spring.
Idabooner knows the country..
Post by: outdooraddict on July 30, 2018, 06:06:58 PM
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Post by: bowhunterforever on July 30, 2018, 07:08:26 PM
Post by: magnanimous_j on July 30, 2018, 08:09:55 PM
Fangy types with venom?And this is why, when I got out of the Army. I swore to never go back to the South. Nice people, pretty country but you folks down there have a snake and bug problem. Bugs as big as a grown mans fist.
I grew up in the SE Georgia pine barrens and swamps. Big Diamondbacks up to 8 ft long. The scariest were the big cottonmouths. Laying next to a log and you never saw one, the camo was excellent. Killed one that weighed 29 pounds.
I can live with snakes, but God I hate bugs. Especially in the South, where a walk to your mailbox can get you a nice case of Lyme Disease.
Hard pass.
Post by: !Xabbu on September 20, 2018, 10:02:34 AM
Yep. I was born in Brunswick, GA, right on the coast. Nice fishing but too many nasty critters. And too much social unrest.
My last duty station in the Military was McChord AFB, Tacoma. Like you, I did not want to go back to the south, I got a job in Port Angeles and stayed. This was in 1976.
I first came to Port Angeles in 1976 and helped clean up the C141 inner Constance crash. Were you at McCord when that happened?