Ridge Runner Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 One of my family has a farm of about 3 hundred acres 30 miles east of San Antonio Texas. For a long time they lived in what they called the old home place. I can’t say they didn’t have trouble with rattlesnakes at this are around this old house. I know one time they did kill two large rattlesnakes under a bush with about 20 baby rattlesnakes. That’s the most they killed at one time. Being that house was getting old they built a new home on a hill over looking of what they owned. Now this has been over 40 years now. I know for a long time it was nothing just to kill 10 are more rattlesnakes each year just around their home . The picture below is just some they killed this year. When it’s said Things are bigger and better in Texas that goes for our rattlesnakes to. You can see theses were killed all at the same time. Chuck 5 1 1 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 I'm assuming it wouldn't be a good idea to hunt the old home place then? 😳 Here people worry about copperheads, I know a couple of people that have been bit, and I've seen them but quite a few years ago. We have a lot of black snakes, I killed one a couple years ago that was all over my RV, but was sad afterward because she was hunting the mice that had gotten in. She was 5' long. A lot of people here mistake the northern water snake for a copperhead, like black snakes they are more afraid of you. 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridge Runner Posted August 13, 2021 Author Share Posted August 13, 2021 I did have a farm south of where theirs is and like you I had copperheads and lots of them. It was in different type of soil and you didn’t find very many rattlesnakes. Out there it was some of the best white tail deer hunting you could find and I’d seen more than one cougar on my place to go with the deer. Chuck 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCR Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 That's pretty country around there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geof_junk Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Are your Black & Copperhead snakes the same as ours. ......Aust Snakes ..... Copperhead. Black. (red belly black) Australian TigerSnake. And of course the Tipan The last one is the deadliest. That should keep all except VANursePaul away from our Aussy Gold.🤣 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valens Legacy Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Seen a couple of copperheads around the house of grand mothers, so I threw some moth balls under the deck with a couple more into the flower gardens. No more snakes around the house, I hate snakes just like my grandfather did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Why is there so many around that area what are they eating? strick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 4 hours ago, geof_junk said: Are your Black & Copperhead snakes the same as ours. ......Aust Snakes ..... Copperhead. Black. (red belly black) Australian TigerSnake. And of course the Tipan The last one is the deadliest. That should keep all except VANursePaul away from our Aussy Gold.🤣 Your snakes are a lot worse than ours, I'll give ya that. Our copperhead is venomous but not particularly deadly. Mostly nasty infections result, your foot will look like a soccer ball. The black snake can grow to about 8 feet, not venomous and will try to escape when seen. If it gets cornered it will bite. Infection. As for rattlesnakes, we have the western and eastern diamondback, Texas to Florida, and the timber rattle snake in the mid Atlantic. The Diamondbacks are deadly. There are other varieties. In my area the black snake is either loved or reviled. On one hand if you have one around your house there won't be any mice trying to get in, on the other they hang from trees, sun themselves on your sidewalk, or rest on your RV stairs. 😀 I surprise them now and again out detecting. Used to see a lot of copperheads out riding trail bikes. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoTTT2 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Chuck, do y'all eat those snake or use the skins .. I once caught an 8 foot black rat snake after being told by biologists that they didn't live where I was seeing this one .. we have copperheads and eastern diamondbacks here, but I've never seen one .. many call the common water snakes, cottonmouths .. but they aren't. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridge Runner Posted August 14, 2021 Author Share Posted August 14, 2021 ScoTTT2 I have never eaten rattlesnake . I don’t think anyone of the family has sold any part of them before. Strick I know they did plant a lot of grain and that brings in field mice and in turn brings in rattlesnakes. Chuck 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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