Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: rocker on December 02, 2007, 10:31:47 am
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anyone know what kinds of snakes i could find in pennsylvania to back a bow with?the last time i read our rattler laws i think they said with a rattler permit you can only kill one a year,thought maybe someone would know of other good sized snakes up here in the north that were easier to obtain.
thanks
dave
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Possible Eastern fox or pine snakes as we call em.
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Rocker
I am just below you in WV and we have a number of good bow backing snakes,, Black snakes are the longest with some being over 6 ft long (Just need One ;) ),, Eastern Timber rattlers (yellow are the larger females and the black smaller ones are male) , Copperheads (Nasty Boogers) ,, Milk Snakes or also known as house copperheads (resemble copperheads without the fangs and their non poisonous and no diamond shaped head) ,, Water snakes that look a lot like copperheads but are non poisonous.........Thats the best ones that I know of here.
Robert
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Why kill the nice one's? I'm not a tree hugger,I just don't like rat's in my shop.
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Thats true,, I usually let the black snakes go unless they scare the crap out of me........I went in my shop one night and the light switch was across the room and I reached to turn the light on and had a bunch of flint and obsidian slabs and spalls on the table below the switch and the whole batch wash moving (about a 2 ft area) as a big snake was laying there below my hand ::) I went and got a flashlight and it was a 67 inch black racer,, needless to say he made a nice backing on a sinew backed hickory bow.... I catch the Gardner snakes and small black snakes from the yard by hand and take them against the hill and turn em loose,, they do eat a lot of bugs and mice.
Robert
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I know what you mean.I have a black snake that lives in the front yard by my front door.Scares the crap out of me all the time.But it's not as bad as the Cuban tree frogs that jump on you in the dark with those big suction cup hands. :o
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lol :o
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How many tree frogs does it take to back a bow?
Ron
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Ron,probally about 6 to a limb.Way more than Monitor and Komodo lizards.
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thanks for the answers fellas!
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Always be on the look out for the elusive Northern snow Snake ;) ;D
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Always be on the look out for the elusive Northern snow Snake ;) ;D
Ya mean the one that crawls up yer... and ya freeze ta death ? ;D......bob
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What's it look like skinned? 8)
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Thats the one bob ;) rarer than frog hair but very dangerous ;D