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Vacation excitement (snake)
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bouncy bouncy bouncy
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Seen a bunch of these when I was a kid. They liked building their webs between the shrubs in front of the house I grew up in. Used to catch crickets and moths and toss in their webs. Pretty cool little spiders. Writing spiders is what we called them.
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Yep. Check my picture above. Big Mike in trouble…..spider done wrote his name.
I lived here my whole life and only been bit by 4 spiders, only 2 were recluse's. And been struck at by snakes maybe 12-15 times, only a couple of those were cottonmouths. The rest were various non-venomous versions I was messing with and asking to get hit. The spider webs you will walk through are way worse than the spiders or snakes. Come on down any time. Oh and only had one gator get semi aggressive but pretty sure we had gotten close to her nest.
We will NOT be hunting together!
Sounds like fun! I am not a big fan of walking face first into spider webs either and not because of the spiders.
Spider webs suck. If I am just out scouting most of the time it looks like I am witching for water because I will be holding a forked stick in front of me to catch the webs before I get a face full of them.
They like to bounce when you get too close to their web. kinda funny to mess with em.
Weldabeast
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I knew eggzackly what you meant @PEEJAY ...boing boing....I don't particularly like web in my face or all over my bow but I really don't mind them. I've never been bitten by 1 and I've had them hitch a ride on me from the woods and take the car ride home to my house...u let those hitchhikers go at my house but I guess they didn't survive or went elsewhere cause I never saw a web made in my property. If in the off season a spider stick is required equipment
Yeah. We have to watch out for the snow snake in late season here. They blend in perfectly.
Weldabeast
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Dudes ....I totally spoke to soon. There is 100% an adolescent nanner spider living in my palmettos. She is the first 1 I've ever had here at the house.
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One of my more memorable hunts involved seeing a gator waylay a coon on the side of a canal, but the highlight was the number of deer seen AND killed. When we (myself and my dad) checked in I asked the attendant to verify no limit and his reply was “if you see mama drop a fawn shoot her first then shoot the fawn”. Roger that, lol.
Signed in at 1215 and killed my first deer before 1300.
Signed in at 1215 and killed my first deer before 1300.
PoorMansWrangler
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A good spider stick is worth its weight
Well I had to "save" the wife tonight. She worked late so we just ordered pizza for dinner. Right after she pulled in from picking it up I heard a blood curdling scream from the garage. Thinking she must be under attack from Sasquatch himself I walked out there to find her locked in the car screaming "IT'S RIGHT THERE!!!! RIGHT THERE!!!" and pointing toward her driver door window. I walked around and sure enough, it was right there . . . . a baby eastern milk snake coiled up on the garage floor right outside her door. If she'd have stepped out of the car she would have stepped right on it (imagine what the response would have been then ). I picked it up and held it up to the window for her, just so she could get a better view. "GET IT OUT OF HERE!!!! NOW!!!" She wasn't impressed. It turns out, to paraphrase Jim Stafford, "She don't like spiders and snakes and that ain't what it takes to love her." As I walked out the backdoor of the garage to release all I could hear was "DON'T PUT THAT THING IN ANY OF MY GARDENS!!!!"
Unfortunately I was laughing too hard to think about getting pictures but if I had this is a pretty good representation of this killer snake. Man what a close call! She probably won't sleep tonight.
). I picked it up and held it up to the window for her, just so she could get a better view. "GET IT OUT OF HERE!!!! NOW!!!" She wasn't impressed. It turns out, to paraphrase Jim Stafford, "She don't like spiders and snakes and that ain't what it takes to love her." As I walked out the backdoor of the garage to release all I could hear was "DON'T PUT THAT THING IN ANY OF MY GARDENS!!!!"Unfortunately I was laughing too hard to think about getting pictures but if I had this is a pretty good representation of this killer snake. Man what a close call! She probably won't sleep tonight.
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Well I had to "save" the wife tonight. She worked late so we just ordered pizza for dinner. Right after she pulled in from picking it up I heard a blood curdling scream from the garage. Thinking she must be under attack from Sasquatch himself I walked out there to find her locked in the car screaming "IT'S RIGHT THERE!!!! RIGHT THERE!!!" and pointing toward her driver door window. I walked around and sure enough, it was right there . . . . a baby eastern milk snake coiled up on the garage floor right outside her door. If she'd have stepped out of the car she would have stepped right on it (imagine what the response would have been then
Unfortunately I was laughing too hard to think about getting pictures but if I had this is a pretty good representation of this killer snake. Man what a close call! She probably won't sleep tonight.
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So I googled: Jim Stafford, "She don't like spiders and snakes and that ain't what it takes to love her."
A treat for rap fans like myself...lol.
Swamp Fox__On The Run
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Points won and lost here for remembering and not knowing "Spiders and Snakes."
Virgins: Look up the album version and the live version with Dolly Parton ...LOL
One of the highlights of my career:
I requested this album when I called in and won a radio station give-away back in the day... The notable thing was it was a big-time album rock station --- Country was not on their radar, but we all agreed that disco sucked!`
I believe I threw them for a loop when I asked for Jim Stafford instead of Jethro Tull or Led Zeppelin. LOL
Virgins: Look up the album version and the live version with Dolly Parton ...LOL
One of the highlights of my career:
I requested this album when I called in and won a radio station give-away back in the day... The notable thing was it was a big-time album rock station --- Country was not on their radar, but we all agreed that disco sucked!`
I believe I threw them for a loop when I asked for Jim Stafford instead of Jethro Tull or Led Zeppelin. LOL
I'm pretty sure I remember seeing the live version with Dolly Parton on one of our three TV channels back in the day.
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This guy about made me wreck my zero turn yesterday. Was cutting in around the magnolia tree and pulled up under one of the branches and he was hanging down. Startled me for sure.
I think its the same one I escorted out of the garage last week. And the same one I carried off down the driveway a week before. If I didn't know any better, I'd think he was a released pet. Very docile, hasn't made any attempts to strike. Rattled his tail a little when I was pulling him through a spoke wheel on a weed sprayer that he had wedged himself through, but after getting him out he just kinda chilled on my arm. Released him and he slowly slithered into the wood line. Not in a hurry like most others.
After taking this picture, he turned and lowered his head down and stared straight at me for a minute.
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I think its the same one I escorted out of the garage last week. And the same one I carried off down the driveway a week before. If I didn't know any better, I'd think he was a released pet. Very docile, hasn't made any attempts to strike. Rattled his tail a little when I was pulling him through a spoke wheel on a weed sprayer that he had wedged himself through, but after getting him out he just kinda chilled on my arm. Released him and he slowly slithered into the wood line. Not in a hurry like most others.
After taking this picture, he turned and lowered his head down and stared straight at me for a minute.
BT