Re: snake needs identifying
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Originally Posted by
Sandcut
Well...it's the rodent eating kind (and fish, and salamander, and frog....), but so are rattlesnakes and copperheads. So I don't rightly know what's left to be the "shooting kind".
We don't have Black Mambas that will chase you down and bite you. .
Apparently you've never seen what happens in a Florida McD's when they run out of McNuggets.
Re: snake needs identifying
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Originally Posted by
Sandcut
Well...it's the rodent eating kind (and fish, and salamander, and frog....), but so are rattlesnakes and copperheads. So I don't rightly know what's left to be the "shooting kind".
There really isn't any legitimate reason to shoot a snake in PA, provided that it is outdoors. We don't have Black Mambas that will chase you down and bite you. As long as you keep your head up and pay attention to what's around you, even our poisonous snakes will crawl away from you. Now if you have a license to kill a rattlesnake on a hunt, that's different. But I spend a lot more time afield than most folks and, even in known high density rattlesnake terrain, I've only ever bumped into one snake in my whole adult life.
Perhaps things are different way down south in the bayous cottonmouths, but it ends up that much of the time, the snake that gets called "cottonmouth" or "water moccasin" the most is the nonpoisonous Northern watersnake that we're talking about above. So there's little need to pull out a Bond Arms derringer loaded with .410 shot shot shells to finish it off. Either walk around the snake or get a stick and shoo it away.
I'm 1,000X more afraid of the ticks and related diseases that mice and other rodents carry than any old rattlesnake. Keep the snakes around to keep the population of reservoir hosts down.
100% agree
Re: snake needs identifying
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Originally Posted by
streaker69
Apparently you've never seen what happens in a Florida McD's when they run out of McNuggets.
I qualified it with an "in PA."
I knew a woman when I was in Alaska whose previous job was to fly around the Everglades all day in a helicopter, land, then kill every exotic snake she could find. I applied for a similar job near Guam, but wasn't accepted.