sinclair1
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You need some snake gloves
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Progression of a Timber Rattler bite
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You need some snake glovesI stomp around in flip flops and short pants, but my eyesight is getting worse so I need to take precautions. Not sure what they are because boots are out of the question. I had a near miss that would have been in the face. He was on a firewood pile.
No matter how good your eyes are, chances are you`ll never see the snake that hits you, till it moves to make the strike. Only the Good Lord knows how many all of us has walked by that never moved.
Speaking from experience, when you do step on a big rattlesnake, you will never forget that sensation under your foot. It can`t be described, but you know what it is.
oops1
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I like the idea of a jerky and sausage ad at the end of that snake bite pictorial.
That’s what I was thinking.. almost yaked a lil when I saw that
Same species by most modern accounts, but different subspecies, races,or varieties, depending on whatever the current classification is, and it changes from time. The canbrake is the southern flatland race of timber rattler. They look like that one in your pic, are usually gray to tan to pinkish, and almost always have an orange stripe down their back. They also have genetic differences and differences in venom with the straight species timber rattlers, besides the differences in color. Basically, all canebrakes are timber rattlers, but all timber rattlers aren't canebrakes.
The normal timber rattler is what we have here in the mountains, and through the northeastern states. They come in two color phases. The most common ones are an olive-yellow background color with a black tail. The other phase is almost completely black with not a lot of pattern visible. There is almost never a defined back stripe in either color phase like you see in the canebrake, but the black phase ones soemtimes have a faint stripe.
Here are two mountain timbers that I came across in one morning of fishing last year, in the same general area. They represent the two common color phases of timbers, yaller and black:
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Those black one are sho nuff purty.
Hillbilly stalker
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Thanks man, do both have a black tail around the last 6 inches or so of their body ?
Here`s a couple of my local ones from around here. Ours always have that stripe down the back. Three of these were over five feet long. That`s as big as I`ve ever seen a canebrake.
Canebrakes also have a unique way of squaring their body up when they get defensive. I`ve never seen a pygmy or diamondback do that.
Pretty snake,,,,
Dirtroad Johnson
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I haven't ever stepped on one but been close more times than I care to.
fireman32
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That looks rough!
Here’s a Dooly Co. canebrake.
Here’s a Dooly Co. canebrake.
jbogg
Senior Member
Here are two that I have run across. One of them had the brown vertical stripe and the other did not. Both of these were on Chattahoochee WMA.
Yep.
Those N GA ones look like intergrades between the northern timbers and canebrakes.
And then you have these. 
NOYDB
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On my uncle's farm pond, there were a lot of overhanging cottonwood trees. When you approached the pond it would sound like a slow rain from all the moccasins hitting the water. I worked on my shooting at snake heads poked up out of the water. Might be a dozen at a time. Also shot turtle heads. Neither of which he wanted in his catfish pond.
NOYDB
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Cottonmouths. Middle MS about twenty miles north of Tupelo.
