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Coral snake
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06/02/16 05:52 AM
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Have a guy doing some work at our place near Lockhart. He found this guy hiding on the front pourch by the door tonight. Seems like a odd spot, mabye all the rain we've been getting had him looking for cover.
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Re: Coral snake
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#6319386
06/02/16 10:34 AM
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Chief Joe
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"It is the same boiling water that softens the rice, which hardens the egg." It's not always about the circumstances, but what you are made of....
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Re: Coral snake
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06/02/16 12:35 PM
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Stub
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Pretty but dangerous snakes, glad no one got bit
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Re: Coral snake
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#6319496
06/02/16 12:39 PM
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colt45-90
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every one I have come across are fast to get away
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: Coral snake
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#6319498
06/02/16 12:41 PM
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BMowatt
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Re: Coral snake
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06/02/16 01:00 PM
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westtexaswatkins
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Those are cool looking snakes. I hope to find one someday. We don't have them out west.
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Re: Coral snake
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06/02/16 01:20 PM
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Western
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Pretty but dangerous snakes, glad no one got bit
If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving is not for you..
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Re: Coral snake
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#6319612
06/02/16 01:49 PM
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SapperTitan
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Those are cool looking snakes. I hope to find one someday. We don't have them out west. last one I seen was in Florida. They are cool.
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Re: Coral snake
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06/02/16 01:56 PM
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CRAnderson52
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You can run but you can't hide...
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Re: Coral snake
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#6319690
06/02/16 02:44 PM
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TEXASLEFTY
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Looks like it's headless too me.
Never been to a camping world. I prefer Dick's to be honest.
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Re: Coral snake
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06/02/16 03:16 PM
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SnakeWrangler
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Those are cool looking snakes. I hope to find one someday. We don't have them out west. Haven't seen any around here either.....love to find one....neat little snakes....
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Re: Coral snake
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06/02/16 06:14 PM
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dogcatcher
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Coral snake
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06/02/16 08:32 PM
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Yes it's dead. They guy that was working there killed it.
After years of leasing, we decided to buy our own place this year. It's only 25 acres, but it's ours. It was VERY overgrown with a house hidden in the middle of it. Crazy that someone was living there. I will have to post some before & after pictures of the clearing & house remodel project which is coming along nicely. Anyways after clearing all kind of debris around the place, we have seen a few snakes, but most slithered off faster that we could identify them. I had never seen a coral. I have 9 & 11 year old curious boys & am they didn't come across it!
Next week is the bee hive removal that we found in a dead tree close to the house. I will NOT be doing that...lol
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Re: Coral snake
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06/02/16 08:35 PM
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Cast
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The bees won't bother you. I've had a hive in a tree since we moved in.
Cast I have a short attention spa
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Re: Coral snake
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06/02/16 08:52 PM
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I just had some dozer work done & they are in a tree not far up right on the edge of the new trail. I worry more about my boys who will be riding there 4 wheelers through there hitting the tree or pissing um off. You know how curious boys are. The gut doing the work was stung a few times. But they do seem very calm now, we took a picture of hive. Just wish they were further back in trees. I have someone that wants them coming to get them just to be safe.
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Re: Coral snake
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06/03/16 12:07 AM
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Michael W.
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Coral snakes show around here about once a year. Have one in the freezer now. They don't seem to be very aggressive. They are more interested in getting away.
A clear conscience is often the sign of a fuzzy memory.
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Re: Coral snake
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#6320502
06/03/16 12:25 AM
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Ridinbackwards
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We found one neat Brady when I was a kid. They can be confused with a king snake, (I think) but the pattern is different. I was taught red and yellow (together) will kill a fellow.
If it was red and black, it was a king snake.
How you do anything, is how you do everything.
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Re: Coral snake
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06/03/16 12:29 AM
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TurkeyHunter
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It takes some work to get bitten by one.
To be determined
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Re: Coral snake
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#6320542
06/03/16 12:45 AM
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94 Sting
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It takes some work to get bitten by one. Ya I was reading up on um. Sounds like youd have to have your hands in wrong place to get bitten or mabye step on them barefooted I guess. So basically leave them alone & probably no worries. Pretty cool looking snake actually, but I'm gald it's not chillin by my front door anymore also. Sounds like a bad day if you were to get bitten.
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Re: Coral snake
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#6320570
06/03/16 01:01 AM
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corkys son
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I've only seen 2, and they were trying to get away as fast as they could.
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Re: Coral snake
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#6320662
06/03/16 01:28 AM
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Old Rabbit
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Very big one, we used to see one every few years at my parents house in Marshall. Needless to say none of them lived very long after they were seen.
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Re: Coral snake
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#6320730
06/03/16 02:03 AM
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tdecker22
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Re: Coral snake
[Re: Ridinbackwards]
#6320742
06/03/16 02:14 AM
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Anton Chigurh
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We found one neat Brady when I was a kid. They can be confused with a king snake, (I think) but the pattern is different. I was taught red and yellow (together) will kill a fellow.
If it was red and black, it was a king snake. Not a king snake, a Mexican milk snake. We found one in the house when I was little, parent thought it was a coral snake at first. The old saying goes "red on black, friend of jack. red on yellow, kill a fellow"
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Re: Coral snake
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06/03/16 02:16 AM
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sparrish8
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I'm pretty sure a scarlet king snake looks like a coral snake more than any other snake
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