Had a run in with this dude Monday. I don't like Copperheads layin' around the place.
http://i.imgur.com/ziux9J4.jpg
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Had a run in with this dude Monday. I don't like Copperheads layin' around the place.
http://i.imgur.com/ziux9J4.jpg
I wouldn't want it in my yard either. I'd have to move him to some safer location. Snakes are just to dang beneficial not to protect them. We don't have many around here and the dang chipmunks have run of the place.
If you do move one I'd suggest a 5 gallon bucket with lid. They see in infrared so if you use a cloth sack they can still see you through the sack. If you get a hand too close to the sack they can still nail you.
If you decide to move him, send me a PM and I'll give you my ex-wife's address. :innocent:
...OOOOoooooo k ... )Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken
I knew they could see infrared, but it never occurred to me they could 'see' through a sack. Thanks for pointing it out!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Rick where did you hear that?! It's infrared not X ray. Maybe if you put your hand on the bag your heat would transfer to it, but THROUGH that bag??
That's a beautiful snake. I would have to keep it if I ran across it.
That sucker looks like he's been eatin good, though if I had found him he would have turned to good eatin lol
He does look healthy, but it also looks like he's flattened his body a lot in defensive mode. He could be scrawny. My pit vipers could make themselves look big when they were tiny.Quote:
Originally Posted by mh89
While i value wildlife and natural balance as much as anyone... i'd much rather deal with a few harmless chipmunks and them gnawing on some garden goods or a wall or some storage bins than be at risk of losing my life (or a family member's) to a very poisonous critter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Very thankful that Canada has very few native poisonous critters. I'll chose rabid coyotes any day. lol
Copperheads are only mildly venomous, but still nothing to mess with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oddmott
...Ok i'll shut up now....
They can see the heat signature through the bag Randy. Just because it's opaque to visible light doesn't mean other wave links can't penetrate it. How we see in the world and what blocks our vision is very much different in some animals.
Here's a demonstration using a plastic bag but the principle is the same for cloth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPho7m01CTw
Correct. And pit vipers loreal pits don't pick up IR the same as our electronics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Well just have at my friend.
The same is true of many redheads I've known over the years Just sayin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandyRhoads
HEY!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken
Yea, I would have chopped his head off with a shovel. Soooo glad we don't have them up here.
Randy is correct, it had flattened because I had moved it out of the weeds with my corn cutter. This snake struck continuously with blinding speed. I've seen a lot of Copperheads, this one was about the most frisky one I ever ran across.
Not nearly as fearsome as some of them readheads though.
Ken or the snake? Careful - you just might make the counselors point for him. :whistling:Quote:
Originally Posted by 1stimestar
All this talking and nobody's suggested capturing that snake in a hong?
Do they make hongs that small?
If you want to be the one to put the hong on him just have at my friend.
"hing hong ... rave on calling ..... "
Little bit off toppic but this thread just reminded me. I bought some snake-shot a while back only to find that the rounds werent powerful enough to cycle my ruger .22. I had to manually cycle the gun to eject the casing and chamber the next round. Anyone else had this issue?
I have a 10/22 but no Mk I or II to try them in. I'll check the 10/22. Hadn't tried that. I use a small revolver.
Had problems with my Mk II and my Mossberg 351CA
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