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09-20-2013, 12:41 AM
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Don't think they're not here - in the Deep South......
I ran across a big, fat 3' long one on the roadway near me immediately after a rainstorm. They love rice paddies, because they're thick with crawfish to feed upon - as the 6' one in Arkansas was found near...
Farmers say they found a giant cottonmouth snake in Carlisle | thv11.com Last edited by Skid Row Joe; 09-20-2013 at 01:19 AM. 
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09-20-2013, 01:40 AM
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from the news article:"Arkansas Game and Fish officials could not confirm the snake was a cottonmouth by looking at the picture. Officials remind the public it is illegal to kill snakes unless they are threatening you."
Well, yah, but: It's said that under the law that vicious animals get "one free bite" 
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09-20-2013, 07:29 AM
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Nothing like that up here in the Arctic North.
 North: 1 South: 0
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09-20-2013, 08:10 AM
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The skin pattern shown in the video at 1:18 is quite different from any I've ever seen.
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09-20-2013, 08:12 AM
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ILLEGAL TO KILL SNAKES?????????????????????????????????????
I've never heard of such a thing. I have intentionally killed several poisonous snakes in my life. If they are posionous and on my place, they are a threat, and if can, I'll kill 'em graveyard dead every chance I get. I have unintentionally killed quite a few snakes with a hay baler over the years, usually non poisonous chicken snakes. Cottonmouths have a better warning system than a rattlesnake. They STINK! Once you know what they smell like, you can smell one that is fifty feet away.
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09-20-2013, 09:20 AM
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Just be sure to have an extra knife or gun with you that you could plant on the snake to CYA.
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09-20-2013, 09:44 AM
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Cottonmouths are very agressive. We used to hunt birds at a friend's family rice farm and it was not unusual for cottonmouths to come TOWARDS you instead of away from you when they saw you. Nasty, stinking VENEMOUS asshats of a snake. I lived on an old farm in the MS Delta area once and a creek ran through the place. It was sick with cottonmouths and they were all over my yard. I killed loads of them, and eventually borrowed a neighbors pig to control them. Pig liked eating snakes.....
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09-20-2013, 09:54 AM
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Did the pig survive the bites?
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09-20-2013, 10:13 AM
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You criminal you! According to the video linked in the OP, you were breaking the law! 
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09-20-2013, 01:18 PM
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the coloring is unusual.... I cant tell from the pictures (delightfully terrible) that it is a cotton mouth.... I see them all the time (makes a hell of a mess when you hit them with a mower) here as AH neighbor installed a giant friggin retention pond and we also have a lake across the way..
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09-20-2013, 01:34 PM
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I have seen a wild hog take a .357 to the head and just shake it off. It reminded me of the Waco Kid's advice to Bart in Blazing Saddles... Don't shoot Mongo. It just makes him mad. A friend of mine has a Bushmaster at his ranch to deal with them. I have knocked them down with an 8 mm Mauser, but the .223 seems to deal with them just as well although you have to hit them a time or two. And they eat everything. A cottonmouth would just be a light snack, but they would never pass one by. And I agree with Larry 100% on this. Kill 'em all, diamondbacks, copperheads, etc.....
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09-20-2013, 01:51 PM
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But if you shoot a pig between the eyes a 22 will do nicely. my dad used to shoot them on the farm when they were butchering from about age 8 or 9 with his single shot winchester 58(?) not sure of the number.
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09-20-2013, 01:53 PM
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