A beautiful snake

[steve white]

Shot my first doe of the season in S.C. a couple of weeks back. Got out of the stand, put one of my tags on her, walked back to the stand and this one was waiting for me by the stand.

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I saw a video of one swimming in the edge of the surf in South Carolina.
Beautiful state, the epitome of southern charm--unless they don't want you there--I was told proudly in Myrtle Beach that they had gotten rid of MS13 gang in ONE day! Good for them.

 

[WAB]

This dude is between 7 and 8 feet. He had a suspicious wide section about 30” long. I suspect that another snake was in the digestion process.

 

[Zinz]

We have big Indigo snakes in south Texas and they definitely eat rattlesnakes. I caught and handled this one. It was about 7’ long and isn’t nearly as big as I’ve seen in the brush country.

Ed

 

[Hooknbullet2]

I saw a Blue Indigo today while I was shredding a sendero in South Texas. They are good snakes to have around.

 

[CBH Australia]

I saw a Blue Indigo today while I was shredding a sendero in South Texas. They are good snakes to have around.

If there is such a thing but yeah. Best to have the non venomous ones eating the venomous ones.

 

[Hunt anything]

If there is such a thing but yeah. Best to have the non venomous ones eating the venomous ones.

We have several species of non venomous snakes in the US that thrive on eating venomous snakes. Here in the south east we have 3 species of king snakes, scarlet, speckled and eastern along with the indigo snake that get really big 8 feet plus and can pretty much eat any snake they want.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

According to old folks around here the common black snake will either kill or drive away rattlers and copperheads.

 

[Hunt anything]

Those black snakes are belligerent S.O.Bs

 

[BryceM]

Snakes out away from things are actually sort of cool..... until they surprise me. Then, no thanks!

On my very first trip to Africa we were running through knee-high grass to get in front of some kudu on the move. My very tall and very athletic PH was in the lead. I saw him levitate, straight up and as my mind was working on understanding why...... suddenly I was up in the air. Truly, I had no idea why I was up there either. Nothing had registered in my brain yet.

A second or two later, I realized we passed by a big cape cobra that was about 12" from my leg. It was raised up, hood fully open, hissing quite loudly at me. By the time it registered, the danger was over, and we were moving away. I learned that my brainstem and spinal cord have their own agenda as far as snakes are concerned.

A couple of hours later the kudu was down, photos were taken, and we were headed back to camp. Sitting there sipping on my drink I had a full-body shiver as it replayed again in my mind.

 

[Field28]

Caught this little Garter inside the sales center where I am building. The agents were freaking out so much, you'd thought it was a mamba. Snakes are definitely crawling here in SC right now.

 

[Opposite Pole]

If there is such a thing but yeah. Best to have the non venomous ones eating the venomous ones.

Red-bellied blacks eat Brown snakes. Blacks are venomous but nowhere near as venoums as the browns.

 

[Flipper Dude]

A person I don’t know…standing on a property I’m not familiar with and employed by someone who might or might not frequent this website…seen holding a garden snake that identifies as a Timber Rattler.

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That’s Larry Csonka. I’m pretty sure.

 

[Certus]

You guys need to get over ya fear of snakes lol. Just because they exist on your land doesn’t mean you’ll get bit. I’ve read hunt reports of people killing then while out hunting to “avoid potential trouble” *facepalm*

Like @BlueFlyer we get eastern browns here. Heck I’ve had them under my front steps - just lock the dog inside for a bit and they’ll move on.
We also get crap tons at work - I work in long grass amongst vegetation. Never concerned about them.

Here’s a little chappy mentioned above.

 

[BlueFlyer]

Red-bellied blacks eat Brown snakes.

When I was growing up on the farm, it was all Red-bellied snakes. Now that the climate has changed to hotter and dryer the Red-bellies have gone and it is all Eastern Browns - Not happy!

 

[HankBuck]

According to old folks around here the common black snake will either kill or drive away rattlers and copperheads.

@Wyatt Smith - we have “plenty” of Black Snakes AND Copperheads on my property in VA: Black Racers, Black Rat, and the beautiful Copperhead.

 

[HankBuck]

Caught this little Garter inside the sales center where I am building. The agents were freaking out so much, you'd thought it was a mamba. Snakes are definitely crawling here in SC right now.

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@Field28 - those Big TONGs for that Tiny Garter Snake ?? I can only hope there is a Woman holding those tongs? Or someone “training” to be a woman

 

[HankBuck]

When I was growing up on the farm, it was all Red-bellied snakes. Now that the climate has changed to hotter and dryer the Red-bellies have gone and it is all Eastern Browns - Not happy!

@BlueFlyer — you guys get “Real” snakes — the dangerous types…not to be underestimated !!

 

[Sarg]

Not sure if anyone knows here but saw this pretty banded snake run over just out of
Lephalale Limpopo, buddy said it was a type of Spitting Cobra, I’m thinking Rinkhal ?

I normally get a photo holding them but was in a hurry this day.

 

[odonata]

I had waded through a creek to go check on the tree stand I took my first deer from last season. It looked like a jungle had grown up around it. I was standing in the water debating whether I wanted to walk over to it because I wasn't wearing my snakeproof boots which I always do when wandering through this area especially in the dark. I was thinking my chances of encountering a cottonmouth would be high.

I was not wrong...

I had this waiting to welcome me. For some reason, none of the other guys at the camp want to hunt out of this stand.

 

[Flipper Dude]

Freaking hate cottonmouths! If you are attentive, you can often smell them.

But I wouldn’t count on it.