I know but it sounds so much more erotic to refer to them as a$$less chaps. I mean if I said you could make some snake skinned pants, the post would have lost all its comic effectAll chaps are a$$less. A$$ed chaps are usually called pants.
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2022 python challenge
- Thread starter Weldabeast
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Longest native snake I've seen was an indigo... It had a couple feet in me. Heaviest was extra large diamondback
Longest I've seen in the wild would be a black racer. The one pictured below was about 7 feet. I was out scouting and saw it and took the picture. It's the little copperheads that worry me. They just lay there like a stick for you to step on. Other snakes will usually give you some indication they are there.
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That's what racers look like where u live? Wow...really pretty. Ours are white/cream belly and dark black with no patterns.....when they are real small they have patterns similar to ur pic but it goes away as they get bigger. 6 foot racer is a jumbo for sure
Well, this is what I think a black racer looks like, lol. I may be wrong. That's what I have always called them. They are cool looking snakes, I did have one that was solid black whip through the woods one day while a friend of mine and I were out scouting. It was big! We startled it and it startled us. I can't say how long but it had to be a good 8 feet at least. I thought my friend was going to climb a tree with his fingernails!
Yeah, it could be a rat snake. That big one whipping through the woods looked like the adult pic above.
I have a racer that lives in my well pump house....we see it almost daily..it climbs into the azaleas and hunts lizards most of it's day or it goes to the ditch and hunts frogs.
When I was in that club and my friends sort of knew where I had my hunting spots, I always named the stands with snake names. I would have copperhead spot, and moccasin stand, or rattlesnake hole, etc. Nobody ever wanted to take me up on the offer to hunt any of my spots. lol.
Pulled this out of my AC fan motor a couple weeks ago. A 42” red corn snake…. I don’t even know why he was in there. But he definitely strangled himself and messed up my outside unit in the process
That's what happens when you are snakin around where you shouldnt.
I like black racers, and corn snakes because they keep the big ol marsh rats we have around here. Unfortunately that one chose the wrong place to sun bathe
I remember an incident that happened to me while working a summer job in high school. I was helping a friend of my dads who owned a little contracting company. We were remodeling a house and as the high school kid who didn't know how to do much, I was given all the gopher jobs, etc. One of those was to chip through a brick foundation and make a new access spot under the house. I spent half the day sitting on this wooden pallet on the ground hammering and chiseling a rectangular hole through about 4 layers of bricks. When I was done, we moved the pallet and there was a huge water moccasin curled up underneath it. Talk about getting a case of the Heeby Geebys!
Blind albino spitting python
I read somewhere, out west they did an experiment and just denim pants were like 75-80% effective at stopping fangs from touching skin underneath
Edit: overestimate on my part.... https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/want-to-avoid-dying-from-a-rattlesnake-bite-wear-jeans
Without better pic of course it impossible to tell.....rat snake, pine snake, kingsnake, corn snake...they all in the same subfamily of snakes...similar size,shape,coloring.....and harmless....worst u get it some little cuts and an infection if it hits skin....more strike happy than the venomous snakes but they just trying to scare u away. I've never been struck at by a venomous snake unless I was messing with it. Just walking by, even when surprised by 1 and within strike range, never had 1 try to bite me.
I read somewhere, out west they did an experiment and just denim pants were like 75-80% effective at stopping fangs from touching skin underneath
Edit: overestimate on my part.... https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/want-to-avoid-dying-from-a-rattlesnake-bite-wear-jeans
Some of my early memories of my grandpop are him catching the indigo snake that lived under their house....grandpop would hold it up and it's tail was still on the ground so it was 8-10 footer...he'd let my sister and I hold it then let it go. I was taught to keep the snakes around and happy......here an indigo enjoying himself and making all u tough hunters happy...hehehehe just kidding....My grandma was terrified so I understand both sides
My 3 favorite books as a kid were Florida's fabulous reptiles, Florida's fabulous birds, and Florida's fabulous mammals. My momma still got them and my kids look at them with me
My 3 favorite books as a kid were Florida's fabulous reptiles, Florida's fabulous birds, and Florida's fabulous mammals. My momma still got them and my kids look at them with me