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Post by duff on Jul 6, 2015 20:34:43 GMT -5
My wife works for usda forest service in the Hoosier. She stumbled on two cool snakes. Got a pic but can't pist it from my phone...I am pretty pumped about it. I would live to see an Indiana rattlesnake :-)
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Post by nfalls116 on Jul 6, 2015 20:55:28 GMT -5
My wife works for usda forest service in the Hoosier. She stumbled on two cool snakes. Got a pic but can't pist it from my phone...I am pretty pumped about it. I would live to see an Indiana rattlesnake :-) I was talking to someone about them yesterday and I said I hope that I never see one because I will always be looking for them from then on so they are gonna have to wait till I just step on one and they bite me before I start looking for them I don't dislike snakes but part of the good about Indiana is the fact that we are at the top of the food chain here and there are very few animals that would give us Much trouble
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Post by span870 on Jul 6, 2015 21:01:03 GMT -5
No tell the story right. She found a rattler, left, then went back to take a picture. Just something not right about her man.
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Post by duff on Jul 6, 2015 21:02:50 GMT -5
They didn't chase her. Too small to eat us...not much to worry about. I do know 2 people that have been bit by a copperhead. They survived, but it wasn't fun :-)
One guy did lose the tip of his finger due to it but survived regardless.
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Post by nfalls116 on Jul 6, 2015 21:04:59 GMT -5
But would love to see Washington d.c. and Peta hsus and a few others headquarters over run with them be a good way to clean up
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Post by duff on Jul 6, 2015 21:05:48 GMT -5
Yea she saw the copperhead first and in her attempt to get her nearings caught glimpse of the rattlesnake...freaked out and ran away then realized she needed a pic to keep credibility with her co-workers andaybe me :-)
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Post by kevin1 on Jul 7, 2015 4:35:46 GMT -5
My wife works for usda forest service in the Hoosier. She stumbled on two cool snakes. Got a pic but can't pist it from my phone...I am pretty pumped about it. I would live to see an Indiana rattlesnake :-) I was talking to someone about them yesterday and I said I hope that I never see one because I will always be looking for them from then on so they are gonna have to wait till I just step on one and they bite me before I start looking for them I don't dislike snakes but part of the good about Indiana is the fact that we are at the top of the food chain here and there are very few animals that would give us Much trouble Top of the food chain? I guess you didn't get the recent IDNR bulletin about the confirmed Black Bear sighting recently.
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Post by nfalls116 on Jul 7, 2015 4:53:53 GMT -5
I was talking to someone about them yesterday and I said I hope that I never see one because I will always be looking for them from then on so they are gonna have to wait till I just step on one and they bite me before I start looking for them I don't dislike snakes but part of the good about Indiana is the fact that we are at the top of the food chain here and there are very few animals that would give us Much trouble Top of the food chain? I guess you didn't get the recent IDNR bulletin about the confirmed Black Bear sighting recently. Well I did and we still kill more of them every year than they kill of us
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Jul 7, 2015 9:25:25 GMT -5
I've seen a few copperheads.. Maybe 3 or 4 in my 28 years here. Never seen a wild rattlesnake in Indiana. A guy here at work did snap a pic of one he encountered out in the field a couple years ago.
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Post by hornzilla on Jul 7, 2015 11:08:38 GMT -5
I have not seen a wild rattlesnake. Always on the look out when we ride our horses in H.N. and Brown county. I want to keep it that way also. I personally don't like snakes and think we have no need for rattlesnakes.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jul 7, 2015 11:18:18 GMT -5
My wife works for usda forest service in the Hoosier. She stumbled on two cool snakes. Got a pic but can't pist it from my phone...I am pretty pumped about it. I would live to see an Indiana rattlesnake :-) I hate it when I can't pist from my phone. I've saw something that I thought was a rattler, but not sure that they ever get in the water. This thing was big, had a diamond back pattern and full body float. It was poisonous whatever it was.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jul 7, 2015 11:21:49 GMT -5
I've seen one small copperhead at a boat dock in Indiana. Last year my wife came home and told me about a fat snake she saw dead on the road. She said it was brown with black stripes across it. My niece stopped by later in the day and she saw the same dead snake and described it the same way. I showed them a picture of a timber rattler and they both said that was it.
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Post by duff on Jul 7, 2015 18:08:44 GMT -5
I have seen 2 copperheads. Never seen a rattle snake, would love to see one.
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Post by dbd870 on Jul 8, 2015 6:13:11 GMT -5
I've seen a handful of copperheads, now if I never see a rattler that would be fine with me.
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Post by stevein on Jul 8, 2015 8:24:05 GMT -5
I had my Brittany get bit by a Massuaga Rattler at Pigeon river. She survived with vet care, the snake did not. (Pre endangered species)
A coworker was bitten at church by a Timber Rattler. He said he was sure the Lord told him to pick it up. The bite was on his hand between the thumb and finger. He lost some use of his hand. I don't like to make fun of religions but I do believe God put rattles on these snakes to warn folks NOT TO MESS with them.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jul 8, 2015 12:41:00 GMT -5
I had my Brittany get bit by a Massuaga Rattler at Pigeon river. She survived with vet care, the snake did not. (Pre endangered species) A coworker was bitten at church by a Timber Rattler. He said he was sure the Lord told him to pick it up. The bite was on his hand between the thumb and finger. He lost some use of his hand. I don't like to make fun of religions but I do believe God put rattles on these snakes to warn folks NOT TO MESS with them. LOL, maybe God wanted him to get bitten??? The Lord has told me a lot of things, but never to pick up a snake, step in front of a bus or kill an abortion doctor. However, I just know what He tells me. He doesn't let me know what he's doing with anyone else. Glad your dog survived!
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Post by greyhair on Jul 8, 2015 22:23:21 GMT -5
My wife worked at Turkey Run State Park a long time - good population of copperheads there, hardly a year went by without somebody getting popped, when off the trails and climbing on the rock formations.
The DNR says that the biggest knowne timber rattler population is in Brown County State Park. They specifically warn about the Taylor Ridge campground area. I did not know that a group den is called a hibernaculum - apparently the DNR people know the locations of them but keep it under wraps. We camp at Taylor Ridge but I have never seen one.
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Post by omegahunter on Jul 9, 2015 8:57:28 GMT -5
I have seen 2 copperheads. Never seen a rattle snake, would love to see one. I don't really care about seeing a live one, but I would love to go somewhere they are served so I could find out what they taste like!
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Post by drs on Jul 9, 2015 10:03:05 GMT -5
I have seen 2 copperheads. Never seen a rattle snake, would love to see one. I don't really care about seeing a live one, but I would love to go somewhere they are served so I could find out what they taste like! I've never tried rattle snake meat, but a friend of mine says it taste a little like Frog Legs. While attending Murray State, our Wildlife Biology Club once had fried Muskrat legs at one of our meetings. Tasted much like Squirrel except the meat was darker in color.
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Post by HuntMeister on Jul 9, 2015 10:46:48 GMT -5
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