Great Grandad's not-so-long-lost Luger

Roadkill · 03-17-2003, 12:17 PM

North Alabama is blessed with three of the best, rattlesnakes will shy away if given a chance, cottonmouths are very defensive in the spring and will attack, copperheads are stupid and will stay in a campsite with people all around. Most likely cottonmouths will be on a bank or near water, get between them and their escape route and it gets exciting. They will sun on a tree hanging over the creek, get under them and it gets exciting. I was with a scout troop in the backwoods, twenty or so kids, I was in the rear , heard someone say "watch out for that snake" up ahead, got up to it and it was a 6' timber rattler coiled by the trail, all the kids had walked by less than three feet from it, hadn't rattled or got aggressive. Skin looks good on the wall. Another time coming in from hunting and it got dark on me, stepped all over a snake. Took a little bit of two stepping but I finally kilt it, it was a 39" copperhead. Skin looks good on the wall. Never been bit. Anybody interested contact me off forum and I'll tell you how to skin and tan them. Been doing it for years. Whenever I get out of my canoe I keep the 5' paddle in my hand until area is checked out. I tried to hit a cottonmouth with a pistol once. Won't do that again.

rk

03-17-2003, 12:17 PM	#15
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,634 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	North Alabama is blessed with three of the best, rattlesnakes will shy away if given a chance, cottonmouths are very defensive in the spring and will attack, copperheads are stupid and will stay in a campsite with people all around. Most likely cottonmouths will be on a bank or near water, get between them and their escape route and it gets exciting. They will sun on a tree hanging over the creek, get under them and it gets exciting. I was with a scout troop in the backwoods, twenty or so kids, I was in the rear , heard someone say "watch out for that snake" up ahead, got up to it and it was a 6' timber rattler coiled by the trail, all the kids had walked by less than three feet from it, hadn't rattled or got aggressive. Skin looks good on the wall. Another time coming in from hunting and it got dark on me, stepped all over a snake. Took a little bit of two stepping but I finally kilt it, it was a 39" copperhead. Skin looks good on the wall. Never been bit. Anybody interested contact me off forum and I'll tell you how to skin and tan them. Been doing it for years. Whenever I get out of my canoe I keep the 5' paddle in my hand until area is checked out. I tried to hit a cottonmouth with a pistol once. Won't do that again. rk