First one of the year!!! Be careful!!

[D Coots]

Do you have those rattlesnakes in your area of the state ? What kind. We have the timber type in areas where i grew up.

I didn't explain myself very well. I was meaning about everyone thinking Iowa is boring. I live in the east central part, no rattlers here but the ne part has them.

 

[Nature Boy]

Now, a copperhead is another story

They worry me the most because they are so hard to spot laying in the leaves and pine straw

 

[Evan]

Let’s not bash snakes too much. Not all the people they kill are good people. Present company excluded.

They also keep rodents at bay. That said, I'd prefer not have any run ins with them. I've only ever been near 3 in my whole life, and that was plenty....

 

[Walt Krafft]

I had a friend who killed a copperhead in his goat barn with a shovel. When he scooped it up he noticed it was two snakes doing the hokeypokey.
I was round baling hay one year and tied a copperhead up. He was pissed off. Next go round there were two buzzards looking at him from a couple of feet. He was about to have an attitude adjustment.

 

[jonbearman]

You can kill them all for all I care. They are miserable creatures that have no place near a human home.Perhaps Joey Biden can get Congress to write a law against rattle snakes and where they live with their M-95 mask on so not to get the dreaded covid. Imagine being in Florida where they have eastern diamond backs, Corral snakes and other poisonous snakes. Now they have pythons, taggou's and other non indigenous lizards, aligators etc.I forgot water moccasins and an occasional scorpions, nutria's and it goes on and on.

 

[bluealtered]

I guess the other one that comes to mind is when i was living outside of Yosemite and on one Friday night i decided to down go to Madera to kick up my heels and come home with a headache. The quickest way was to cut off of HWY 41 and hit the old logging roads which i did and as i rounded one of the hairpin corners on the way i ran over a rattler that was crossing the road, I was driving my jeep commando, (to fast of course) and as i went over him i saw about two feet of him sticking out on the drivers side of the jeep, i thought wow that's a big one!

I stopped a little bit from him and went back to look and he was still there, there was also about two feet more of him on the passenger side where i had run over him. I didn't get any closer, I left good enough alone, besides i was in a hurry to get that hangover, i mean headache.

 

[muleman69]

Timber rattlers are very small

Not here,Wife and friend got one up behind the house that measured 52"

 

[KMart]

Strange as it may sound, The Timber Rattler is on the endangered/protected list in Texas. Last year, a neighbor of Snakepit had one in her yard. She called the guy next door and he came over and killed it.
She gets on Facebook and lets the whole world know. A couple of weeks later a Game Warden showed up at his door and wrote him a ticket. He went to court and had to pay a fine. The event was on an episode of Lone Star Law.
All this to say, if any of these things are protected species, be careful what you post to the internet.

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

Found Coral Snakes in our yard before, but never a pit viper until April 9 this year, this ~ 2-1/2 foot Copperhead on our back steps gave my daughter a good scare. I may need to find some of those 38 shot shells, but I let him go this time.

 

[joshb]

I don’t see it! ...and that’s what worries me!

 

[KMart]

I don’t see it! ...and that’s what worries me!

The little red squiggley thing in the dark area up against the house.

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

I don’t see it! ...and that’s what worries me!

That pic is just a thumbnail. Click on it for the larger photo, then you will see it.

 

[rebel]

Snakes and being Southern go hand in hand. I don't worry about them to much. Watch my dogs closely and watch my step even closer. I let black snakes be, got some 7 footers. Maybe that keeps the copperheads away. IDK

 

[Cecil S.]

When I lived in Tennessee I taught my daughters how to use an 870 Remington they would hang the kills on the fence the Ex hated it.......maybe thats why shes the Ex. Keeping the grass mowed helps keep them at bay......LOL EDIT: HATE Copper Heads!!!!

 

[muleman69]

I guess the other one that comes to mind is when i was living outside of Yosemite and on one Friday night i decided to down go to Madera to kick up my heels and come home with a headache. The quickest way was to cut off of HWY 41 and hit the old logging roads which i did and as i rounded one of the hairpin corners on the way i ran over a rattler that was crossing the road, I was driving my jeep commando, (to fast of course) and as i went over him i saw about two feet of him sticking out on the drivers side of the jeep, i thought wow that's a big one!

I stopped a little bit from him and went back to look and he was still there, there was also about two feet more of him on the passenger side where i had run over him. I didn't get any closer, I left good enough alone, besides i was in a hurry to get that hangover, i mean headache.

Have you ever ran over one length wise?Man do they ever pop

 

[YEW PLUCKER]

Wife was coming out to the shop and and went to hollering, right in front of the steps....View attachment 1181393

That's a Good'n!

 

[Jdne5b]

This is about all I need to see up close. We were camping in a State Park in SW Mo. While hiking we ran across this Pygmy rattlesnake. Not sure how the dog didn't step on it sitting in the middle of the trail. We saw quite a few of them this weekend.

 

[Ccrider]

Snakes and being Southern go hand in hand. I don't worry about them to much. Watch my dogs closely and watch my step even closer. I let black snakes be, got some 7 footers. Maybe that keeps the copperheads away. IDK

This is my thought, especially if you fish and hunt. Around the house I kill any poisonous snake. Black, green, chicken snakes all get free passes, despite the Misses continuing objection.

 

[davidjoe]

One of our young dogs was making a real ruckus this evening. This beautiful old rattlesnake, one of the best I’ve ever seen, was on the driveway. She seemed to know this present situation wasn’t going to work out, and was calm being held gently by rubber bladed squeegi.



A few minutes later Royse and I have her between cardboard and a big plastic box.



Everything needs to drink. It’s been extremely dry and we knew the best place to release her was a windmill overflow pond safely distant from the house.




This snake never struck. She didn’t coil over the squeegi, hiss, or even invoke that record rattle. I told Royse one of these doesn’t live this long, overreacting.




This is rattlesnake for “thank you” see you later.

 

[Xerothermic]

I hear they taste like chicken! Might be a little bony, tho!

Not after they've been brought up on Roundup.