Snakes!!!!

[Jeff D. Holchin]

Gotta figure out how to post pics; encountered a rare "GA cobra" several years ago at Ft Stewart that put on a good show...

[Mike Gerardi]

TTT For GA.

[Bladepeek]

A few years ago, like 1964, I was attending artillery training at Ft Sill, OK. A few of us decided we were going to climb up Mt Scott. There was a road to a parking lot on top on one side of the mountain (really large hill) but we walked up the other side. We got to the top and an old guy (he seemed old to me at that time:-)) Said "You city boys never cease to amaze me". I didn't consider myself a city boy as I grew up on a small farm in Michigan and said so. He took us back down the way we had climbed up and showed us half a dozen rattlers sunning themselves. Survival of the innocents?

[Soonerlongbow]

Ft. Sill and the Wichita Mts have a metric crap ton of snakes. When I was a cop on Ft. Sill the only snake bite case I personally worked (was also assigned to a police medic duties) was actually from the Refuge. A little girl stepped over a rock and the snake bit her calf. The man hiking with them tossed her over his shoulder and ran all the way back to the trailhead. She kept her leg. The young LT that was bitten while I was there didn't.

My grandfather went through OCS on Ft. Sill back then also.

[stujay]

Some of those snakes pictured are huge. I still break out in a cold sweat when I think of the two rattlers in almost the same area two years in a row that I nearly stepped on!

[Tim Finley]

When hunting in Texas I have encountered about 6 of the blue indigo snakes some of them are huge also 7 to 9 feet the biggest I have seen is about 7 feet . They come in a color of like grape bubble gum to almost black. One I was after changed colors from dark blue to almost black . I understand they kill rattle snakes .
   On the bigger snakes I wonder if snake boots and gaiters are tall enough .

[T Sunstone]

My dog Mickey and I have one thing in common, we have both been bitten by Copperheads.  I made my living as a nuisance trapper and Mickey was in training at the time to locate snakes.  I trained him to find them but they were always in a pillow case.  Hadn't gotten around to teach him they bite.  Usually use a black snake to teach them.  Was at a job for a copperhead under the front stoop and was putting him on a cable but the owner came out and distracted me.  Too late he smelled the snake and got bit on the snout.  I thought if I get any venom out it will help so I sucked out blood and venom 3 times by the last one he was yelping pretty good.  Vet in 10 minutes, antibiotics and anti inflammatory and he was good to go in 2 days.  Here's a before and after pic.

[SnakebitYank]

Been bit at least 15 times since moving to the deep south.  I wish i was a PC guy. I've stacks of pics & vids of 6' vipers! I'll figure it out. Took a bite to the right elbow a month ago. Down to almost no effect! Shucks!!

[tom halloran]

Last summer I found this guy in the yard next to the house as I was running out back to fling some arrows. Had not seen one in 7 years since we moved here, but had been expecting to that summer because how dry/hot it was, figuring they would come into the garage for cool and water.

Anyway, I didn't trust my bow skills to get him before he got away, so I whacked him with a shovel

[JimB]

Been bit at least 15 times since moving to the deep south.  I wish i was a PC guy. I've stacks of pics & vids of 6' vipers! I'll figure it out. Took a bite to the right elbow a month ago. Down to almost no effect! Shucks!!
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What kind of vipers?

[Car54]

Snakebityank,  do you belly crawl to your stand.....lol....wowzer.