well me and my wife sent the lil boy off to stay with the inlaws tonight...so i took her to dinner, shopping, and then a lil frog giggin'. actually i was looking for frogs close to the house while also trying to teach her to drive my 5 speed wrangler. well we didnt see any big frogs and i think i know why. shot this big moccasin at 8 yards!! the magnus did a number on him.
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Thats a big snake, I don't even like the little one's.
haha! me neither. if you notice, even though the broadhead pretty much severed his spine i wouldnt touch him until he couldnt move his mouth:)
Hey, you go walking the banks and invading the moccassins home... of course you'll kill a few!
My fav-O-rite catfish hole on the Withlacoochee river down in Florida where I was raised, was refered to as the moccasin hole.... There were shallow riffles on the river side and a deep spring on an outside bend that just was outta the current to create a heck of an eddy...
The key was tying off to a root of an overhanging tree (where the moccasins love to hang out) and casting a line into the riffles and letting it swing around and sink into the hole... You had to reel within 30 sec of casting.... We used to limit out fairly quickly (30-40 minutes for 25 catfish.. some times as long as an hour... but we shot moccasins like crazy I had a .22 revolver loaded with snake shot just for the purpose... 3 was the lowest and 9 was the highest...
It is the price we pay... Now, I am in trad archery, I think I wish I had alll them skins for covering bows....
Glad you got it before it got you, cuz them moccasins can be territorial... Good shootin :clapper:
The pictures make me shutter to think........
I'm grateful that it was you who got him rather than the other way around.
One more and you can back that bow.
Congratulations on the kill.
God bless,Mudd
WHOA!! :eek:
Surely you skinned him out? I would kill for some good snake skins! From the broadhead hole to the anus is plenty long enough!!!!
OK - that's my cold chills for the morning :eek: Nice shot! :thumbsup:
Brandon -
Congratulations! You married a very smart wife...
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Nothing like a romantic evening with the wife...
Not only will she not go froggin again,, she ain't sending the kid out for the evening either..
Yeah, I'd be shaking in my boots too if I saw him & me not armed with something.
Good shot bud, we at the hunt club are supposed to clean the grass from around this pond to make snakes less likely to be around but I ain't goin out there by my slef to wade in the pond.
Good Job The only snakes I like are skinned and backed on my bows!!
thanks guys! and yeah it got skinned out. im gonna try for another one soon. i want the skins on my dorado limbs.
That's actually a water snake not a moccasin but a really big one and definitely a frog eater.
also if you notice the lump in its lower belly, it was a big bull frog!
Way more meat in that snake than a mess of frogs. A lot tougher but just as tasty.Nice snake.
Nice shot!! Man, glad you got it first!!
I killed a snake just exactly like that and was told it was a banded water snake? Okay some of you down home southern boys educate me on this cuz we do not have such critters in my home state of Montana! Just prairie rattlers and bullsnakes!
One big tip off is that on the watersnake,the dark bands are wide on top of the back.Just the opposite on the cottonmouth.
The cross bands on the cottonmouth will be mostly unboken,especially on the front half of the body.The watersnake will usually have a good many broken bands.
It takes closer inspection but not hard to do on a dead snake or even a good digital picture-water snakes have round pupils,cottonmouth's are eliptical,like a cat.
On the underside of the tail,the watersnake has a double row of scales,full length of the tail and on the cottonmouth there is just a single row.
A lot of people have truble telling them apart but side by side,they are very different.Similar colors,both heavy snakes and both can be very fiesty.The cottonmouth usually stands it's ground or moves off slowly whereas the watersnake,if not cornered,takes off in a flash.
And regarding the "lump" in the belly,I believe that one is full of babies.That bulge is too far back for it to be the stomach.A frog would be dissolved before it got that far back.I believe there are a slew of babies in there.Easy enough to find out.
Thats really cool.Can you get a mount of it?
I wouldn't want to get close enough to tell if it's a moccasin or a watersnake. Snake is all I need to know!
Good shot, BTW.
yeah it turns out it is a banded water snake, either way i dont like snakes....when i skinned him the lump was a big frog...no babies in this one. its gonna make a nice skin when dried though
There are pleanty of those guys around my place. I would rather have them then a cotton mouth any day.
Had to beat one off with a paddle that was trying to hitch a ride. Persistent fellow he was.
WOW!!!!! crap i hate snakes. even dead ones :scared: i thank God we dont have em in this country. good shot indeed
you dont know how many people have been bitten by "Dead Snakes" they went to pick up
always cracks me up me to hear grown men who weigh #150+ (at least :D ) , possess higher cerebral function and opposable thumbs freely admit to being scared to death of a limbless reptile that won't go #10 soaking wet.
and BTW, i grew up in an area with plenty of snakes... i live in alaska because i am skeered of ticks :biglaugh: