Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: mullet on October 03, 2010, 10:12:48 pm
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Anybody ever go hunting and wish they didn't?
I went to the Green Swamp MNGT Area here in Florida Saturday. I decided to hunt the Uplands area of this 48,000 + acre area because of all the rain we have had. The roads and fire cuts had stretches of ankle deep water for a 100 yards or more. This is planted pines, wire grass and palmettos.
We came up on a muddy part of a fire cut/ road and started seeing these wiggly tracks in the mud, like, a whole bunch. There were no feet print so it was pretty obvious it was a snake or lots of snakes and not small gators. I've hunted here 20 some years and have never seen this many snake tracks in one area. Well I went on instant alert when I saw fresh ones. I had just discussed with the wife the night before about wearing snake boots and chaps or my stalking shoes, guess what I wore?
It wasn't ten seconds, with the sun glaring in my face and I saw a Moccassin about 4' long 10' in front of me. I got him with a Judo point and then Charlie hit him with a rubber blunt. I skinned it out, it had a six inch catfish, Warmouth perch, and bullfrog in it. How those fish were living in a Pine forest was amazing to me. Then we went on down the road wading in ankle deep water.
We heard some hogs off in the pine trees and I headed off after them, slipping in through the wire grass and wading water. I hadn't gone 20 yds and almost stepped on a 3 footer. I shot that one and was really starting to not have a lot of fun. Everywhere I walked I was seeing small bullfrogs jumping. I skinned that one,too. Then we seperated at a "T" road intersection. I hadn't walked 30 yds and there was another one. I spent the rest of the morning walking, watching the ground in front of me and every step I placed my foot. Didn't see the doe early enough to get a good shot till it was too late. I was ready to call it a day and come back with my snake chaps on. It is too far from a hospital to get popped by one of those little nasties.
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Sounds like my kinda place!
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You know the way back. ;D
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One day my friend...one day :)
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You can keep Your Florida Moc's Eddie....Texas Buzztails aint half as Ornery........ >:D
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Cool story Eddie. Thanks for sharin'.
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Man I couldn't take that. :o
Pappy
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Mullet,
You can have all them %&&&% snakes.I,d rather mess with our bears!!!Have a great day-Lloyd
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By "mocs" are you meaning Cottonmouths? I've never even seen one in real life and I don't want to. I wouldn't go back that way unless I had on all the protection I could get.
CP
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Yep, Cottonmouths. I got some nice bow backings for my effort, though.
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Eddie that sounds like a very nerve wrackin hunt!Good to have someone to watch your back there huh!!Crazy where fish and such end up when it rains heavy.Mom has a ditch in front of her house and after heavy rains them crazy eel kinda lizard things come crawling out(amphiuma) i think!!Crazy lookin suckers for sure.
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Cool....Conger Eels....a big long Salamander...they make great Bait for the Big Fishies!!
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Randy, we have big ones, too. We call them Mud Puppies. They are about 2 to 3' long with two little legs behind the head. Slimey , little boogers.
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Eddie, don't you wish you had some snow and ice and you wouldn't have to worry about the bast%$#s. :)
David
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David,,,,uhh,,uh, no. ;D
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We got our share of big cottonmouths in east Texas as well,and your right.They can be plum cantankerous. ;) God Bless
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know the feelin. snakes suck! especially when you dont see the little suckers till your right on top of them. :o
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Eddie the ones we got outta the ditch and put in the fish tank(which was a mistake)lol were 2-3ft long!crazy i didnt know what to make of em!!I'm a country boy from the sticks and anything with a body like that has 4legs and we call em lizards or waterdogs or it dont have legs at all!!LOL I do miss florida sometimes!!
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The problem with Cotton Mouths, is that they can sometimes be aggressive! :o I've hunted in areas like that when I was younger. I was dove hunting, along a canal bank at a Friend's dairy, and must've killed a dozen or more Pygmy rattlers. Seemed like every where I put my foot one was pretty close. Glad I wasn't fishing, and decided to sit down! ::) ;D We do have some nasty little critters down here, and getting imports to boot! >:( And to think when I was a kid, my Friends, and I would wade the irrigation ditches, on a Friends Tomato farm, and whack cotton mouths, and copper heads with sticks. We would get quite a few of them sometimes. Not in the mood for that now. Something to do with growing older, and getting a touch of intelligence, now and then. ;) ;D
Wayne
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Growing older and not being as alert as we were, at ten, or seeing as good. ;)
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Thanks Eddie, I was trying to create an image here...... ::)
Ok, ok, Folks, intelligence has nothing to do with it! >:( I'm a LOT older, my reflexes aren't as good, and I don't see so too pretty well any more. And my hearing isn't what I would like it to be. Actually it is pretty good. My Girlfriend says I have selective hearing. I can hear what she doesn't want me to hear, but not what she is telling me. I think it is a defensive male gene that has evolved over the Milena......... ;D ;D
Wayne