Found a fat one

[Southern Sportsman]

I'm glad I don't get queasy about snakes, or I couldn't hunt this bottom. This was the most photogenic of the four I saw this afternoon.

 

[prstide]

That one has pretty coloring but man I hate those things!

 

[CHRIS WILSON]

Pretty and the reason I wear snake gaiters.

 

[thirdwilliam]

I would have to find another location if I found 4

 

[Remington700]

That's hunting in West TN! I grew up hunting the Hatchie bottoms and now hunt the Obion bottoms. Seeing snakes comes with the gig.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

I would have to find another location if I found 4

I'd hunt somewhere else if I found 1

 

[PossumSlayer]

Where is it's blood?

 

[knightrider]

I see one major problem with that pic

 

[Southern Sportsman]

Where is it's blood?

Never struck a turkey, so no blood shed.

 

[Gravey]

Looks hungry with his mouth open so I'd have had to have fed him.

 

[megalomaniac]

he has been eating well.

I'm up to 140 something miles hiked this spring, yet only seen 2 snakes. a garter snake and a black runner. Haven't even seen a single venomous snake, and I've been in some nasty bottoms in S Mississippi

 

[Southern Sportsman]

I haven't seen a lot. One rat snake during they juvy and these. I've hunted this farm for years. If it's a warm day, I'll typically see 2-3 cottonmouths per trip there on average.

 

[Carlos]

 

[Bgoodman30]

Another con to the last start but not nearly as bad as the mosquitoes!

 

[prstide]

I haven't seen a lot. One rat snake during they juvy and these. I've hunted this farm for years. If it's a warm day, I'll typically see 2-3 cottonmouths per trip there on average.

Hunted a farm for a good while that was loaded with 'em like that too. Happy to say I've since moved on to some higher ground with far fewer cottonmouths.

 

[Andy S.]

He's healthy, but as you stated, it comes with the territory we hunt. In west and middle TN, I see water moccasins the most, copperheads a distant second and rattlesnakes a far distant third, rarely seeing a rattler. There may be more on the landscape than I see, I just do not see them that often. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Southern Sportsman]

Made a pass through that farm again today starting around noon. Saw two racers on the hill before it drops into the bottom, but only one moccasin. But it was cooler, so the slow moccasin day didn't surprise me.

 

[Tweeter]

I would have to find another location if I found 4

And new underwear!!!

 

[Tweeter]

Looks hungry with his mouth open so I'd have had to have fed him.

A face full of #5

 

[Hymie3]