Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: mullet on May 27, 2007, 03:12:13 pm

Title: serpents
Post by: mullet on May 27, 2007, 03:12:13 pm
  Just thought I'd show you guy's what likes to live in the same Palmetto thickets with hogs.It makes it exciting when you have to crawl in there looking for a pig you shot.That is half a sheet,4x8,of plywood.

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Post by: Coo-wah-chobee on May 27, 2007, 07:49:01 pm
 Hey , ya figured posting pics out ! :).bob
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Post by: koan on May 27, 2007, 07:52:35 pm
Man, thats big enuff to cover 2 of my bows with some left over! ;D......Brian
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Post by: mullet on May 28, 2007, 09:06:16 pm
  Well I just did a belly and back today and still have a bunch left.
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Post by: jamie on May 28, 2007, 10:03:10 pm
thats the problem with connecticut. im the biggest baddest predator in the woods. makes ya sloppy. need something that'll hunt me. the bear are back but they are fat and like people cause the morons up here feed em .
Title: Re: serpents
Post by: mullet on May 28, 2007, 10:15:25 pm
  Jamie,You can crawl around down here with Bears,panthers ,coyotes,gators,big rattlesnakes,coral snakes,python's,anacondas, monitorlizards,komodo dragons,igjuanas,pirahna,and salt water crocs'.And I'm sure it's only a matter of time till we have some more exotic crap.See why we're not afraid of wild hogs.
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Post by: Justin Snyder on May 28, 2007, 11:42:27 pm
Sounds like a good time.  I hate to think only the tourists going to Disney are getting an adrenaline rush.  ;D Justin
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Post by: cowboy on May 29, 2007, 12:01:37 am
That's sure enough a big rattletail! Don't see that many around here any more, just got back from road huntin em - didn't see a one.
Title: Re: serpents
Post by: mullet on May 29, 2007, 04:10:07 pm
     That's about the average size around here,in the 5' to 7' range.You don't see the real big ones anymore.When I was younger,you would see some huge ones, 9',12'.The largest I ever got was 9' 9" long,23 rattles and a button.
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Post by: Pappy on May 30, 2007, 01:06:04 pm
Man what a snake I thought the one I skinned the other week was big but he was only about 5 ft.
Pappy
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Post by: mullet on May 30, 2007, 05:57:56 pm
  Pappy,I'll hang the Python up next.
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Post by: brokennock on May 31, 2007, 04:32:30 am
 We have pockets of rattlers here in CT. but they don't get that big. Neither do the copperheads. I only saw one mountain lion, but a week before seein it I was walkin in the woods in that area and felt like I was bein watched the whole time.
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Post by: Hillbilly on May 31, 2007, 07:57:08 am
We used to have some huge timber rattlers around here, but you don't see tham much any more. Same with the giant blacksnakes- when I was a kid you saw some eight-nine footers with bodies big as your wrist, but I haven't seen one that big in many years. Too many roads and bush hogs, I guess.
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Post by: GregB on May 31, 2007, 08:49:33 am

That's a bigun', would rather spot him first from a distance then upclose and personal. I picked up a roadkill blacksnake Saturday on the way home from Pappy's. Small one, but large enough for one limb.

Looks like a potential "hole in the limb" bow in the shed there... ;)
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Post by: Marc St Louis on May 31, 2007, 01:50:09 pm
That is a big Snake. All we have up here are Garder Snakes and they don't get much bigger than 2' long

Bears on the other hand we have lots of. Had to crawl through some thick brush after a wounded one many years ago
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Post by: Justin Snyder on May 31, 2007, 02:08:23 pm
Bears on the other hand we have lots of. Had to crawl through some thick brush after a wounded one many years ago
Sounds like a good time to me.  Maybe a trip to Canada is in order.  ;D Justin
Title: Re: serpents
Post by: mullet on May 31, 2007, 06:10:25 pm
Justin,The adrenalin rush you get at Disney is watching all that money disappear out of your wallet.It cost about $200 a day per person.
    Hillbilly ,we still have big 8 and 9' Blue Indigo snakes,would be beautiful on a bow.But if you get caught with one you might as well have eagle feather fletching too.
     Yea Greg that's going to be my hole in the limb bow if I get time to finish it.
      I'd sure like to stick one of those bears Marc.As many as I keep walking up on down here I'm afraid I'm going to get tempted sooner or later.
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Post by: jpitts on June 01, 2007, 12:45:39 am
Eddie,
Those big boys are why I always kept a king snake around back when I was a kid....Last time I saw one that big was at the round up near Moultre.
Back when I lived in Tallahassee, I learned a lot about gators. Dang thangs are everywhere.
Coyotes and wild dogs are getting worse up around here. People will put dogs out anywhere. Then they start running in packs.