What kind of snake is this?

#251
#251
WBO said:
Until they tear the house down. Those boys like to tear stuff up.

Some of you guys are pretty good herpetologists. My basic rule is leave them alone. The only exception was aviation survival training down at the Eglin AFB training range. We were so hungry two guys walked down a stream which made the moccasins come out. Got four of them. They don't taste like chicken.
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What do they taste like?
 
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#252
WBO said:
Until they tear the house down. Those boys like to tear stuff up.

Some of you guys are pretty good herpetologists. My basic rule is leave them alone. The only exception was aviation survival training down at the Eglin AFB training range. We were so hungry two guys walked down a stream which made the moccasins come out. Got four of them. They don't taste like chicken.
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Apologies if I posted this way upthread, but your post reminded me:

When I was a kid (late 50’s - early 60’s), my parents were waterskiing-crazy. We’d go every summer to the Swanee* River (Old Town, Florida) for a week and ski all day long.

At some point I heard about water moccasins. At age 6-7, I didn’t know how to weigh the risk. All I know is that I would ski forever until my legs were complete jello before dropping the tow rope, terrified that the snakes would get me before Daddy circled back around to pick me up.

Looking back on it, that’s probably how they guaranteed that I (only child) would give them some parental privacy at night in our tiny motel room.

* that’s how they spelled it; don’t @ me, bro!
 
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davethevol said:
What do they taste like?
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Reptile. Seriously it didn't really taste like anything I'd eaten. It probably could have been better except one of the guys in my class had a degree in microbiology and he was obsessed with the parasites in snakes. So he made us boil it before roasting.
 
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#254
WBO said:
Reptile. Seriously it didn't really taste like anything I'd eaten. It probably could have been better except one of the guys in my class had a degree in microbiology and he was obsessed with the parasites in snakes. So he made us boil it before roasting.
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I ate rattlesnake once. I don't remember really what it tasted like, but I do remember it wasn't the worst thing I've ever eaten.
 
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#256
Jackcrevol said:
You guys obvs dont hang around the RF. If you had you'd know that no one has ever seen a Copperhead in the wild. Even in captivity they are like ghosts.

They blend in to a point where when you are near one, you're dead.View attachment 552701
I was lucky I didnt die when I took this.

@SoilVol can you school Frank?
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That's a covert copperhead!
 
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C-south said:
A healthy adult isn’t going to die from a copperhead bite but you should try to avoid it.
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As C-south pointed out, a bite from an adult copperhead isn’t likely to be fatal for an adult human. Baby copperheads have more potent venom than the adults. Don’t handle baby copperheads.
 
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munsterlander said:
One of the scariest moments of my life - walking alone in woods near our farm, heard a rattlesnake (eastern diamondbacks all over upper east Tennessee and sw Virginia), knew I was on top of it, but could not see it - didn't know whether to go forward or backward. Fortunately didn't get bit. Never went back to that spot.
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No Eastern diamondbacks (Crotalus adamanteus) in TN or VA. Appalachians have timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus).
 
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