^^^ for all y'all hunting water holes in this drought.

bout to say the same thing...I will worry about the colorful and the ones that rattle...for now that is

for what it's worth, yall are freaking me out. I've already had one close call this bow season with a rattle-bug I almost stepped on walking back to my truck one evening. Stepped within 2 inches of him on each side and he never rattled....till I threw a bowling-ball sized rock at him.

Thanks for the correction, and I edited the post.

I had McCoy on the mind, old age will do that, but it was the Moore exit and heading west on Co rd. 1515.

Luckily we don't have many rattlers where I hunt. But I killed two copperheads during bow season last year. One about 5' from the door of our tent, and the other that same after noon laying across the trail to my bow stand (sunning himself). And I usually kill between 2-12 copperheads a year around the house.

Every lease I've ever hunted had rattlers tho. This time of year if you see one, there is usually a few more around. It's been our experience they don't stray too far from their dens once the first good cold front blows thru.

If it ain't one kind it's another. I just call them all rattleheaded copper mouths and wear my snake boots whether in dry country of the swamps.