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About a month ago, this showed up at my back porch, getting heat signature's from my wife's cat.

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Biggest cottonmouth I've ever come across, and I've seen my share. This was a 5-foot, fat grand-daddy. As far as I was concerned, this was a home defense moment.:ROFLMAO: I grabbed my HD gun, my 1911, went out on the porch. He was about 3 feet away. He started moving and I shot him twice in the body. Then I followed behind him as he moved and shot him two more times in the body. He came up the steps of the porch and down off the side into my wife's pepper plants.

I went inside, got my M1 Carbine--which I always keep loaded--came back out and waited for him to present his head. He did and one round did the job.

I wanted the carbine for the headshot because the barrel gave me a bit more distance from his business end.

Then, my dog got out, grabbed the dead snake by the tail and started whipping him around spewing nasty snake blood all over the porch and the sliding glass doors.

Some afternoon.
 
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I Have big rattlers, pygmy rattlers, water mocasins, copperheads, and an occasional coral snake on my property. We have water everywhere. We have dogs, cats, and lots of grandkids. The key to venomous snake survival here is for them to keep their distance from the house. I keep a .410 Snake Charmer and a .410 Bond Derringer handy for snake duty. I on average kill one a year but more when there is a hurricane and flooding in lower areas.
 
The dang things are dangerous. If your favorite dog gets bit, you are looking at $3k and up in vet bills. A human being bit will result in several days in the hospital, a big bill, and possible long term complications. A bite can be fatal to a small child. I am not interested in relocating a venomous snake found on my place. On the other hand, we have many non- venomous snakes that are welcome under my porch.
 
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a cottonmouth will not be easy to relocate if you can do it. It is one of the few snakes that is irritable from the nanosecond you both realize you are in proximity to one another. We have them a plenty at the deer lease in E Tx along the river bottoms. counted 26 in one day scouting for hogs driving on a 4 wheeler. we dont walk around without snake boots.
in the wild, I leave venomous snakes be. only a protected species of rattler and non-venomous will get relocated if close by a house. venomous near the house go bye bye.

this rattler was 3' foot behind me for 20 min while doing some work. didnt realize it till I turned around. he never rattled. took a few years off my life with the shock o_O:oops:
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KillerFord1977 said:
a cottonmouth will not be easy to relocate if you can do it. It is one of the few snakes that is irritable from the nanosecond you both realize you are in proximity to one another. We have them a plenty at the deer lease in E Tx along the river bottoms. counted 26 in one day scouting for hogs driving on a 4 wheeler. we dont walk around without snake boots.
in the wild, I leave venomous snakes be. only a protected species of rattler and non-venomous will get relocated if close by a house. venomous near the house go bye bye.

this rattler was 3' foot behind me for 20 min while doing some work. didnt realize it till I turned around. he never rattled. took a few years off my life with the shock o_O:oops:
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yup thats a OH FREAKING HELL moment
they blend so well
thats the one thing i feared at the hog lease
we had one FALL out of the tree just a few feet from our camo tent thing.. PLOOOOOP when it hit and slithered off

i think yellow jackets, cottonmouths and timber rattle snakes are all born from the same PISSED off attitude from day one
 
OldGrunt said:
And here is a good snake to have. A Texas Indigo. It was about 6 and 1/2 feet long. They eat rattlesnakes. In this case, it wasn't eating a rattlesnake. It was about 10 feet from my a/c condenser unit. I want these snakes on my property. And they are a protected species. This was about 3 years ago.View attachment 103671
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They are craaazy fast !!!
We have em in E tx as well. Watched one take down a rat snake. Fast as lightening
 
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