Corn Snake

[Ranger B]

Anyone know where I could find some corn snake skins?  I've been looking online but no luck. Any suggestions?

[leapingbare]

Jimmy i got a big one in the bowshop. ask Mark he should know were it is. You can have it.

[armymedic.2]

$20 at a pet shop.............. ok that was wrong

[cowboy]

Never heard of a corn snake Jim. Show a picture whenever you get one .

[FlintWalker]

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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[cowboy]

Wow Shannon. That looks like some kind of pet store boa or something - purty. Now I know about corn snakes, almost copperheadish .

[sailordad]

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

[Ranger B]

I think the color would be perfect on the right piece of osage.

[leapingbare]

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.

[mullet]

  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,

[Justin Snyder]

I checked the pet stores.  Some really pretty color phases but dang they are expensive.  Justin

[Postman]

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...?" 

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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[JW_Halverson]

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).

[Ranger B]

I thought gaboon vipers weren't indigenous to the U.S. and illegal to have. 

[El Destructo]

                    I am sure that He was just funnin Ya....since Gaboon Vipers are from the Equatrial Jungles of Africa