Just sharing why all snakes aren’t bad.

[turkeyrun]

Democrat bitten by Coral Snake taking down campaign sign. Democrat had nothing to do with it though, could have been anyone.
https://www.newser.com/story/350453/candidate-says-snake-bites-worse-than-losing-election.html

No professional courtesy, anymore.

 

[ch1966]

Did your heelers dispatch that snake or are they the bystanders/alarm systems?

Darn things freak me out with their nervous system That continues to live on even after you cut their head off and relocate it. I once picked up a headless copperhead to throw over the fence and give the carrion birds something to munch on and the dang thing flipped over and try to curl around my arm like a constrictor

Great looking pups btw !

Thanks.
The pup at the top of the photo found it and circled and barked while I retrieved my S&W 34.
He had the snaked riled up coiled with it's head and 1/3 of it's body off the ground about 15 inches.
They were on the woods side of a barb wire fence and I was on my lawn side.
I crouched down and beaned it with a short round right between the eyes at about 7 yds.
And I mean rag doll limp dead.
I never seen one turned "off" like that with a 22. They always twist and turn begging for more lead.
The red blood drop between the popped eyes is the entrance wound.

 

[capnkirk462]

I'm kind of on the fence about snakes. Yes snakes control the rodent population, so do owls and hawks. But snakes also eat a lot of frogs that eat a lot of bugs, but bug zappers are good at that also. When I was younger the house on the farm had a creek 20 feet away from it. I went on a snake eradication program in that area and boy oh boy did the frog population explode.