Watch your fingers!

[Ralph]

#6037

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAdMiL8lwEY/[youtube]

Just a reminder since we’re going to be out and about in warm weather. Rattlesnakes be my concern but a lot of you guys got these things plus rattlers and moccasins.

I’ve never tried putting a youtube video on here where it starts up so at least you know where to look for video. 😕

[Ralph]

#47221

I’ll be durned:D

[Doc Nock]

#47241

Yup. When I was in grade school, got to some Jamboree where they had a bunch of rattlers and copper heads.

Guy kept the one’s cut off head in a glass aquarium with a lid on it.

Told us that a snake’s muscular reaction will allow it to still bite you and inject venom for hours after dead…

And to bury a cut off head DEEP cause the severed head will bite you and inject venom, too! I was about 8 or 9 then and never forgot it! First I ever saw it first-hand! Neat clip!

[David Coulter]

#47243

Try to copy the link and paste it here. I want to take a look at this. thanks, dwc

[Doc Nock]

#47247

DWC,

On my browser, if I right click the clip here on TB, the first in a drop down i s Copy URL…

I did and pasted it in an email… It worked…took me right to the Utube location…fwiw! I’m n ot very computer savvy, but using Mozilla Firefoc might have made it simpler, don’t know.

[Etter1]

#47257

I killed two copperheads last year. De-headed both of them. Five hours later, you could still touch the headless snake and it would rear up and strike at me.

[Doc Nock]

#47276

I’ve had that headless version strike me too…mine was a rattler 30 yrs ago… I’d clean blow the head to smithereens!

The thing that scares the bejabbers outa me, especially with kids that want to poke & examine stuff, is that the HEAD can still BITE and supposedly, inject venom, when the head is severed from the body…:shock:

If I gotta get hit by a pit viper, I’d prefer it to be a headless one that merely leaves a bloody splotch on my hand, from it’s bloody stump!

[vajd]

#48501

I killed a copperhead last week in the back yard cutting grass. It was in side the fenced area where my dog roam so I’m glad I ran into first I’ve had two bitten over the years. The strange part was it was within three feet of where I killed the last copperhead, cutting grass last year. I miss my black snakes.

[James Harvey]

#48647

I try, really try to avoid killing snakes. They have a hard enough time here with cane toads without me adding to the death toll. I have killed a few all the same. The last one I killed was a few years ago, on Christmas eve.

I stumbled, drunk as a skunk, into my bedroom and even through my drunken glaze had the wherewithal to mutter “I didn’t leave a belt on the floor”. A quick flick (read manic sawing) of my pen knife later and there was now a wriggling body and lonely head on the floor, waiting for a more sober me to clean it up on Christmas day.

If I’d seen this video first I probably would not have left the head sitting on the floor 😯

[Doc Nock]

#48719

NOw I have to go google “Cane toads” and learn what “toad” kills snakes! :shock::?:

Some states here in the East now make it illegal to kill even poisonous snakes… The only people I know who kill them regular are those with camps and cabins and don’t want them around the buildings where the dogs and kids/grandkids can get into them.

We got a lot of them in PA, (rattlers and copperheads) but luckily, I’ve only seen a few in all my years afield.

I’d like to keep it that way!

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