Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: JustinNC on June 09, 2011, 11:19:01 am
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Thought you snake lovers might like this....I really like the second image. Got these yesterday. Medium sized, 3 ft, eastern king snake.
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/treednnc/Picture001-3.jpg)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/treednnc/Picture003-3.jpg)
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that is a beautiful king snake. All the ones I have found around here are black with a few yellow speckles. I really like the banding in his pattern.
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That is a real beauty,never seen any like that around here. :)
Pappy
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That is a pretty snake, and a good one to keep around. Thanks for sharing.
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He/she was very gentle. While I didn't pick it up (hate getting musked or whatever with no means to wash up immediately), it did come right up to me and crawl across my boot and up my pant leg a little, in a nonagressive manner, before I did pick it up enough to lay it back down on the ground.
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king snakes are pretty docile. I haven't ever been bitten by them before. I have been bitten and struck at by rat/chicken snakes and corn snakes but never a king snake. :)
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king snakes are pretty docile. I haven't ever been bitten by them before. I have been bitten and struck at by rat/chicken snakes and corn snakes but never a king snake. :)
rats are fairly docile, Ive been struck at once, this year actually, when trying to handle....black racers though, mean as a snake. Never had a problem with a copperhead, knock on wood, then again I dont handle them. I have watched my boss, unknowingly until he was across him, step across a large 40" or so copperhead and it never made a move. I myself have stepped on an average, 2ft or so, as well as looked down and had one between my feet while in some tall grass, and never been bothered.
I did come across a timber rattler in the NC mts that was coiled up, rattling, and ready to strike (and did at the obligatory stick poke) when I saw it. I was about 3 ft away when I saw it in this position and have little doubt one more step without seeing him would have resulted to a trip to the E.R.
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That is a pretty snake. Don't think we have em around here anymore, if we ever did..
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That's a cool looking snake, nothing like our Scarlet King snake.
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That's one pretty snake!!! I found a spotted king snake on the road last year.. It was too far gone and just got a small piece of skin off of it
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That would look good on a bow! The only good snake is a dead-un.... :P
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love the second pic. ;D
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It is a beautiful snake and I'd never kill one...but it sure would look good on a bow!
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Beautiful snake. Thanks for sharing.
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That is a fine snake. I just found a speckled king last weekend,and it's been a long time since the last one I saw. Nice pictures. God Bless
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Thats normally the pattern we see around this part of the woods.Ron
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Pete did you take any pics of that King snake.. The one I picked up is the only one I have ever seen.. Beautiful snake
Cipriano
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beautiful snake , found one run over bout a year ago . put it on this one
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Ken that was a great find... Love how that pattern looks on that bow.
Cipriano
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That is a great look Ken. Up here in the mountains if I see a snake dead on the roads, no matter what kind it is it already has 10 tire skid marks across it. Doesn't leave much to work with. ::) As far as the locals are concerned all serpants are EVIL! >:D
We do have a couple of black snakes that have lived around here for years. Kinda like family. ;D We had one here a few years ago that was an easy 7'. I think he lived in our old abandoned Isuzu Trooper. We would find his(or her) shed skin coming out from under the engine compartment.
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same here Pat , most slam on brakes just before they hit them so that they cut them into, and shred them. thats the reason i split this one and glued it on, knew i would never find another one in good shape
we have had a few pet rat snakes and kings in the yard , i like to see them around.
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As y'all might imagine from industrious snake trading, folks around here don't care for snakes much and kill them every chance they get. There are lots and lots and lots of copperheads in this county, but the skins are hard to come by because folks will swerve to run over it after it's dead and the ones that get killed in yards are so mangled that there's not anything worth salvaging. We have had at least 3 people get bitten by copperheads. One guy was careflighted and ended up in ICU for a while. This sort of thing makes the front page of our paper and it becomes open season on those beautiful snakes.. Another front page headline was a live rattlesnake being put in a mailbox by a neighbor. The mail carrier opened the lid, saw and heard the snake, and sped off.. A person driving behind the mail person saw the snake fall out of the mail box, turned around, pulled out a gun and shoot and killed the snake.. That's my community :o
I couldn't make this stuff up... Well, what can I say??? It is Texas. ;D