BIG RANDY
Senior Member
Y'all can let them be if you want, you can call me ignorant, scared whatever you want but when it comes to me and my family not to mention my small dogs ( just like family) no venomous snake gets a free pass on my farm.
amen brotherY'all can let them be if you want, you can call me ignorant, scared whatever you want but when it comes to me and my family not to mention my small dogs ( just like family) no venomous snake gets a free pass on my farm.
Been wearing turtle skin chaps since 2014 or 2015 after quail hunting in Nic's stomping grounds. Weigh mere ounces and easy off and on. Got a Danner snake boots like new. Turtle Skins my go to. Bout the weight of a pair of boot socks.Never wore em when younger, have religiously for the past decade or so. Anybody tried the "turtle skins" and also is there a good ankle boot that is somewhat comfortable but maybe not labeled as "snake proof" that would stop a fang to the toe that you could wear in the summer with the turtle skins. Thinking something somehwat comfortable you could wear with shorts if out and about in the summer.
That right there is one beautiful snake, but I still don't want to meet it.Some say there is a difference, some don`t. Hard to say, their venom can be different in different locales.
I`ll say this though, from much experience with both. A canebrake is a kitten compared to one of these.
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I’ve seen a couple diamondbacks and one was a big one. I stepped right over her before doing a half hearted jump once I processed she was there. Never rattled or lifted her head. I tossed a stick near her and she slid in a cavern of Tupelo roots. Nearly grabbed a cane break while pulling grass out from under my trail cam once, the snake simply moved its head (which was less than 10 inches from my hand) out of the way and then slithered off into a dead stump hole. Literally stepped on a cottonmouth that was definitely “mature” that one stood his ground for a bit but again a tossed stick and he was gone. I’m with you on the snakes, I let them be in the woods they are far more valuable to the ecosystem than most know.And those of you who think a cottonmouth is bad, well, it`s obvious you`ve never fooled with a really mad diamondback, or a normal tempered pygmy rattler.
Uh Huh, was he by chance selling a magic elixir?I was once told by a biologist that by killing all of the rattlers that we hear rattle we are slowly and inadvertently breading the rattling instinct out of them.
Something to think about.
Just got me a pair of turtle skins, i think they only are 7 ounces.Been wearing turtle skin chaps since 2014 or 2015 after quail hunting in Nic's stomping grounds. Weigh mere ounces and easy off and on. Got a Danner snake boots like new. Turtle Skins my go to. Bout the weight of a pair of boot socks.
I had a veteran DNR Ranger tell me cottonmouths are rarely found north of the fall line.And how many of those "cottonmouths" these folks seem to boast about seeing or slaying are actually just a cliche banded water snake....
Up here around Athens everyone claims they "killed a cottonmouth" yet the closest real cottonmouth I've ever seen is Warren County. Still don't think there has ever been one in Walton or Barrow county, much less somewhere like Gwinnett. Maybe I'm wrong, idk.
What boots do y’all wear with the turtle skins?