Hitchhiker

[EasyE]

.......this guy almost got cut up under the bushog until I saw him trying to get away,... I scooped him up and rode him around for a little while before taking this picture.

 

[westbrooklawn]

Sorry, but that copperhead would have taken a ride to "snake heaven" if I had seen him... I hate snakes, and if it's poisonous it's dead!!

 

[EasyE]

I normally do kill them, especially if they are near my customers homes but, this one was out in the country so I just rode him around for a while and turned him loose back where I caught him.

 

[CurlyDave]

I vote for snake heaven.

 

[TedLaRue]

I normally do kill them, especially if they are near my customers homes but, this one was out in the country so I just rode him around for a while and turned him loose back where I caught him.

EasyE,
You and I think alike. If I run across a yellowjacket's nest where someone is likely to get stung, I usually "eliminate" it. But if out in a field, I just let them be. I figure they've got their little niche in the food chain.

 

[jinman]

I normally do kill them, especially if they are near my customers homes but, this one was out in the country so I just rode him around for a while and turned him loose back where I caught him.

I am neutral on your choice to release, but I would probably have figured that if I could find him, then somebody else might too. Their darn camouflage is so good they are very hard to see in leaves and grass. I don't think it would have given you the same benefit. Copperheads are quick biters. I know three people who have been bitten by them while I know nobody personally who has ever been bitten by a rattler or water moccasin. The chances of being bitten by a coral snake are even less since they have to chew on you awhile before being able to get their fangs into you.

 

[Tig]

I must compliment you on the finesse it must take to catch a snake with a FEL. I usually catch sod, then I catch heck.

 

[czechsonofagun]

I am with you. I don't have a problem to kill anything, but I have to have a reason. Killing just because it is there is not for me.

Lately this huge snapper comes to eat with my catfish and sunfish. It is very funny to see this creature hang in the water vertically, only head coming for the floating fish food. Because of the way she behaves - she eats right next to the pier - I could easily shoot her. Taking .357 half jacket in the top part of the shell would definitely kill her. But I voted not to - and kids are trying to figure out name for her now

 

[jinjimbob]

If you kill one type of animal, you might get over run with another type. Those snakes eat mice/voles/chipmonks/rats. Those animals in turn eat the small things. etc..

 

[jimg]

This past w/e a Cotton Mouth and I had an encounter of the way too close type in my back field. He was all raised up ready to fight...didnt know I could draw and shoot so fast. Took a bit for the adrenaline to wear off too. When I walked out of the house I thought Id take my HG in case that fat old groundhog showed up never imagining Id need to use it on a cranky snake. In fact this is the first time in my life a snake has ever been aggressive w/ me. Just as soon live the rest of my life w/o another episode like that!!