Rattlesnakes!

Walks Backward said:
I like to aim at their pointy heads!

Smitty, I got a fierce hate against all snakes, scorpions, and creepy crawly things. I shoot, whack, smack, or stomp on em all! And I've got a bud up in Montana that's a full fledged herper that has gobs of snakes, evil bugs and crap. He knows I can't stand em. So we just don't discuss it....
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Trust me, Wade. I get it. Since I was a young kid I've been fascinated by reptiles...particularly snakes.

Yeah, I'm weird...but in a lovable sort of way!

But, I don't take a self-righteous attitude about it. I recognize that it some parts of the world, such as where you live, a deadly, venomous critter can quite literally be on your front porch...or in your house! So, I'm not looking down my nose at anyone.
 
I'd like to try some cutlets and prepare them my own way. Maybe baking it, or pan-frying it like fish.

I'd try that canned product, but I'm afraid the smoked flavor and the broth would overpower the taste of the meat.
 
If it's rattlers you dislike, kingsnakes are your friend!


I actually had a pretty big eastern kingsnake in the yard where I used to live. It was very docile around people, and never attempted to strike. When handled, it would musk a little, but then it settled down and would just wrap itself around your arm. They're a good snake to have around. They will also consume any number of varmints and pests.
 
Being surrounded by Cottonmouth and copperhead snakes, I shoot all on sight. I do, however leave the little toads, tree frogs, and little lizards alone though. They eat bugs, and I like that. The snakes come to eat them (lizards and toads). That I don't like. So I try to make snakes extinct. Here's my idea for a new reality show: Wade's World of Evolution; where non-hunting city folk come to blast snakes outta the woods. Fun for the whole family. Brought to you each week by Colt, Smith & Wesson, and Remington.
 
Here in Maryland, the Department of Natural Resources only lists two venomous snakes: the copperhead and the timber rattlesnake.

However, we also have the northern water snake:

http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/nersip.htm

This snake is very often mistaken as a copperhead or water moccasin (cottonmouth). I had a run-in with one of these in a garden pond at the house were I used to live. They WILL make you think they are venomous! They don't hesitate to strike.

So, in my area, I admit I do have the luxury of essentially not having to worry about any venomous snakes in my yard or anywhere near where I normally go. The same goes for scorpions...none of that here.

Honestly, what concern me more are black widow and brown recluse spiders. We do have those, and I've actually had the heart-accelerating experience of working in the yard and discovering a black widow crawling on my ungloved hand! The brown recluse's venom is even more dangerous than the widow. Yes, any pests I find in the house I do kill, as with pests in the yard.

I actually get very few snakes in my yard where I live now. Usually, it will be a Dekay's snake. I really like seeing these, as their main diet is slugs, grubs, snails, beetles...that sort of thing. At my previous house, there was a greater variety...rat snakes, garter snakes, occasionally an eastern chain king snake.

I actually got a fair number of birds of prey, too. That was really cool. I'm glad I don't live there anymore, though. The wooded area next to my house that was the source of the critters has been shaved to the ground to make way for a self-storage facility. Today, the scenery from that house isn't a wooded area...it's a storage building and a parking lot.
 
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Snakes don't bother me at all, now these bastard's I CAN NOT DEAL WITH!!!

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This is an actual pic I took, he was sitting on my dining table.... he was cleaning his legs and I COULD HEAR IT!!!!!
 
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