Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: Ranger B on November 02, 2008, 09:41:06 pm
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Anyone know where I could find some corn snake skins? I've been looking online but no luck. Any suggestions?
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Jimmy i got a big one in the bowshop. ask Mark he should know were it is. You can have it.
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$20 at a pet shop.............. ok that was wrong
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Never heard of a corn snake Jim. Show a picture whenever you get one :).
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They are one of the prettiest snakes around here. They're pretty rare though and their color and pattern varies quite a bit. Good luck finding a pair. They would look beautiful on a bow.
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Wow Shannon. That looks like some kind of pet store boa or something - purty. Now I know about corn snakes, almost copperheadish :).
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ya i have been looking at the pet stores, the wife keeps telling me i cant buy any "to just put on a bow"
and i am like "no not to just put on the back of a bow,it would be on your bow honey"
mistake,she dont want one of them nasty things on her bow. silly girl ;)
she refuses to let me buy them >:(
tim
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I think the color would be perfect on the right piece of osage.
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what i got in the bow shop is a chicken snake, i thought they were the same thing. the skin i got ant that bright. but looks close to that.
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We call the orange ones down here Rat snakes and the yellow ones Corn snakes. When you see one they are about 5' long but I hate to kill one. Now, if I could find them in a Pet Store, ??? ::) ::) ::) ;)
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I checked the pet stores. Some really pretty color phases but dang they are expensive. :'( Justin
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This is the one in my classroom - she doesn't have any brown color, just red (called amelanistic) you might check some reptile pet companies who might sell ya old "breeder snakes" that aren't productive anymore and would get tossed in the freezer anyway to save on rat costs. Mine is 14 years old and usually doesn't produce more than 2-3 fertile eggs per dozen. I think many older snakes do this - or maybe my male has "reptile dysfunction...?" ;D
There are tons of color morphs - most to bright for bow camo, but cool nonetheless. The wild ones vary a lot from region to region. The really beautiful wild-type ones are usually marketed as "Okeetees", if that helps.
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Wow, pretty snake. I'd have a hard time killing that snake just to back a bow. For that matter, I have let quite a few bull snakes get away, too.
Prettiest snake job I ever saw was a gaboon viper backed over osage orange. Gaboon's are not too common on the prairies of South Dakota for that matter, so I don't think they have to worry about me snagging their coats (well, they being one of the 5 deadliest snakes in the world may have something to do with that, too).
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I thought gaboon vipers weren't indigenous to the U.S. and illegal to have.
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I am sure that He was just funnin Ya....since Gaboon Vipers are from the Equatrial Jungles of Africa
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I've seen gaboons in private collections - most states don't even require a permit to keep "hot' snakes ??? i think i remember a posts here about cobra skins on a bow, and have seen african ball pythons used - they're pretty common as "giveaway' snakes when people get bored with them.
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The gaboon backed bow in question is real, no funnin'. The skin was collected from a deceased resident of Reptile Gardens, bless his legless li'l soul. O:)
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I have done Cobra and Ball Python....and posted them here and P.P.....but all of My Skins came from Indonesaia from Snake Farms...not wild kills.....they are mainly Meat Farms...and they sell Skeletons and Skins....nothing is wasted from the Sankes
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can you give me a link to buy some skins from?
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Ditto to what mullet said. They used to be quite common down here. When I was younger, I would climb coconut trees to get some coconuts, and usually found one or two up there, plus some scorpions. I believe that they are also constrictors. Make neat pets. Very pretty. Of course I was always bitten by the time I got it home, so I just let it go. I am like Mullet, I would not want to kill one, but if I found one dead, I would shuck it's hide. I have a Cobra hide here somewhere. I got it off of a belt, I got from a store with some Indian guys running it, and they had some Indian stuff there, and the belts were part of the stuff. Very cheap belt, no leather, just folded cardboard, wrapped with snake skin, and a buckle. Didn't pay much for anyway.
Wayne
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hey guys there is a pet store down the road from me here in magnolia texas that has gaboon vipers,horned vipers, cobras, and all the poisionous snakes found in the lower 48. spooky, eh.
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Riccochet, you want scary? Go to miami, they have cobras and other nasty little legless wonders running around. Idiots, buy them, then can't take care of them, and let them loose,in the woods, or they get loose. I saw a ball python, on the side of the turnpike, when I was working for the FD. I was on my way to work. I thought it was a big rattler, and I pulled over, and backed up, and saw it was a python. Kinda mangled. About six or seven feet. We have lizards, nutria, parrots, parrakeets, love birds, monkeys, etc. Pretty much whatever you can get at a pet shop we have running around down here. Lots of %$#@!! coyotes too. Oh, did I mention illegal ailens? ;D ;D
Wayne
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We have corn snakes around here,but they're great snakes,that helps keep gophers,rats, and mice in check.Merry christmas, God Bless