Like seeing a copperhead withdraw back underneath your trapping shed.
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I’d have to wait till December to back in.
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Got any snake traps?
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I’ve got a black snake in mine and I don’t mess with him.
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I’ve always found rat snakes in there and left alone. I don’t like this other kind even in the holler.
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Found this guy yesterday. He couldn’t stand the pressure test.
Have had my place since 2006. Kill a copperhead or 2 every year bushhogging but never seen a rattler.
This one was in the road in front of my place.
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They give me the Willy’s….but they are marked up pretty. I’ve skinned a bunch the last few years
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I have cracks in my floor in building a fat snake could come up into and it’s copperhead heaven if one gets in there with all the junk. The rat snakes are attracted due to mice and flying squirrels. If I start finding copperheads in there I guess the floor will get a plywood cover. Oddly I’ve caught a couple of copperheads in minnow traps just laying around. I don’t know why they go in them. I bulldozed an old house down and pushed it in a hole and lightly covered about 75 ft. From my shed and I think it’s probably a copperhead haven.complete with groundhog dens for them to winter in.
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I used to work with a bunch of guys from McCreary Co. and they all had copperhead stories. One that sticks in my mind was of an old guy that had a ranshackledy old house that had so many copperheads in, and around it, that he eventually got bit! They said at that point, he just sat around with a coal oil rag tied around his ankle at the bite place for a couple of weeks, and declared war on the snakes by shooting them with a shotgun while he was laid up! Apparently, his old floor had gaps in it, and the snakes would just crawl up through them, and into his old house! … I guess it was big sport to get revenge by shooting heads off as they poked up through the floor after that !!!