First Blood - Serpent down!

copperhead95 · April 26, 2011, 09:57:00 PM

good shot! im not a big snake killer, besides venemous ones, but great shot none the less. the first blood is always exciting, mine was a rabbit.

landman · April 27, 2011, 09:08:00 AM

I've been a hunter for almost 60 years and when I was young I, just like most of the guys I ran with, would kill anything when we were out with our guns or bows. After hit my mid 20's I realized that any time I was armed I was the Lord of the Forest....so to speak....when it came to having the power to kill and it was at about that time that I quit shooting things that I wasn't going to eat. I also realized I loved just about everything that I ran into in the woods except cotton mouths. I've let dozens of copper heads and the few rattlers that I've encountered go but cotton mouths are another thing altogether and I'll kill them every time if I can.

Keith Zimmerman · April 27, 2011, 01:57:00 PM

Some people are just ignorant. I wonder sometimes if God punishes people by bringing them back as a snake or a turtle crossing a 4 lane highway.

bornagainbowhunter · April 27, 2011, 02:08:00 PM

No need to get hateful. I suppose you ^^^ have never done anything that someone else doesn't approve of?? Right?

Being on a trad hunting site, I assume most of us hunt and kill animals also. There are people who would try to bash us for that. I would hope that folks on here would have a better personality and higher respect for others than to stoop to that level.

God Bless,
Nathan

amicus · April 27, 2011, 02:40:00 PM

That was a great shot. Congrats.

Gilbert

woodcock · April 27, 2011, 03:44:00 PM

Sorry you caught all the lecturing and grief, good shot, well done. I got a kick out of Landman's comments above. If you live with Cottonmouths they absolutely take top billin' for snake killin'.

Fortun81 · April 27, 2011, 03:59:00 PM

Growing up in Louisiana, I can tell you for sure. If it looks like a water moccasin, shoot. Don't worry too much about the yellow belly water snake, or whatever they think it might be. The only snake I don't mind is a king snake. I just saved one on the road today. I like those, they eat bad snakes. I will go out of my way to help a king snake. Every other snake... meet my arrow, or Ruger or mossberg or whatever it takes.

My dog got bit by a rattler 3 weeks ago. He is just now starting to look and act normal (finally doesn't have a basketball sized pouch of swollen puss on his neck). I figure the vet bill will be equal to about 200 rattler hides. I plan to get my money back on that deal...

Rat control? King snakes eat bad snakes AND RATS... and I have two boys under 12, with bows and pellet rifles. Between the king snakes I save, and the boys, there aren't too many rats around here... God willing, soon there won't be many, if any, rattlers around here either.

LimBender · April 27, 2011, 06:20:00 PM

Jeez Keith, thought we had made up.

Thanks for the kind words guys, this is a great site! Hopefully I will kill a pig in a couple days. That being said, I'm letting the word out now that I will be discarding the hocks instead of pickling them. I'm hoping this will not be the start of another controversy. :p

buckster · April 27, 2011, 07:21:00 PM

Good grief, the man killed a potentially poisonous snake and just wanted to bring his first traditional kill to TG for a few accolades.

Yet he was slammed; well I say good on you and you are welcome at my camp fire any time.

Mods please kill this "snake" it has gone poisonous to it's readers.

MTArrowLauncher · April 27, 2011, 08:10:00 PM

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Some people are just ignorant. I wonder sometimes if God punishes people by bringing them back as a snake or a turtle crossing a 4 lane highway.

If god didn't want us to kill animals why did he give us the ability?

Don't feel bad there's lots if people who don't like things like this, they go by a 4 letter acronym. Ill let you figure out which.

Limbender, like we were talking about before, keep doing what your doing brother and post a pic of the hog your gonna kill

Fin

wooddamon1 · April 27, 2011, 08:52:00 PM

Good shot, man!Congrats and good luck on those hogs!

Keith Zimmerman · April 28, 2011, 12:08:00 PM

My comment was directed towards the guys who kill all snakes. All snakes are beneficial. Some need to be removed...around houses and kids, etc. But to kill them just to kill them just doesn't make sense to me. You might not like them, but that doesn't mean to kill them on sight anywhere.

wv lungbuster · April 28, 2011, 12:20:00 PM

This one went the Chevy vs Ford way eh

Mike Manassa · April 28, 2011, 12:43:00 PM

Good shot LimBender...Keep up the good work...Mike

MTArrowLauncher · April 28, 2011, 01:51:00 PM

In all honesty this is an awesome site, but some guys need a chill pill.

Trumpkin the Dwarf · April 28, 2011, 07:38:00 PM

Good shooting LimBender!

As hunters it is necessary to protect our resources, but that does not mean we cannot harvest animals from those resources. From everything I have heard Cottonmouths are bad beasts to encounter and as such many people kill on site. I think that if you use your harvest for a logical purpose there is nothing wrong with killing a snake or twenty.

Now get a matching skin and trick out your bow

Trumpkin the Dwarf · April 28, 2011, 07:41:00 PM

(p.s. I really hope I don't offend anyone with what I said,

if someone takes issue feel free to pm me and keep it off the public forum)

BighornTn · April 28, 2011, 08:11:00 PM

Nice shot!!! RJ

Zbearclaw · April 28, 2011, 11:32:00 PM

Congrats on the shot and sharing it with family.

I haven't been to church in a while so I'm glad I read this, we have some wonderful sermons within these pages...

April 28, 2011, 11:58:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by mikebiz:
I'm with keith and reddogge. If I recall correctly The Bible relates that evil took the form of a serpent in the Garden of Eden. It does not say that all serpents are evil. Sorry, but stuff like this makes me want to jump up on my

LOL...you guys are nuts....do you have pet spiders and flies...

BTW, does your bible say that snakes are NOT evil (what is evil??)...maybe it is optional...pet them or kill them....or even eat them. HA!