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 Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: blancobuster]
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08/10/12 03:36 AM
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Punkin
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Looks like a damn good snake to me!
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: Huntsmanda]
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08/10/12 03:36 AM
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txshntr
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It's immune to its own venom. It didn't die from the bite. Isn't that why people milk snake venom, to get all the antibodies to make antivenom? Well, my only source was an internet google searching, so I still don't know. One source was www.venomousreptiles.org I guess I've been lucky, I've been in Texas over 35 years and never seen a live rattle snake in the wild except once... It was the last day of spring turkey season in Blanco Co. txhntr - where did you see these studies? It might be neat to read. Or very boring... I will have to go back and look. When you catch and play with an animal that poses that much of a threat, you tend to read as much as you can on them. I used to catch them all the time, gas dens, pulled them out from crawl spaces and would milk and defang some for pictures and pranks. Lol
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: txshntr]
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08/10/12 04:14 AM
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Huntsmanda
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Blancobuster - that is what worries me....
txhntr - catch and play? Oh Lord. I've beat a lot of cotton mouths to death with fishing poles, etc. But catch and play. NOT ME..... No big deal on the study. Just if it's easy to find.
"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: blancobuster]
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08/10/12 04:34 AM
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BBD84
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: blancobuster]
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08/10/12 05:03 AM
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jcarlson91
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: Huntsmanda]
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08/10/12 01:51 PM
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txshntr
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txhntr - where did you see these studies? It might be neat to read. Or very boring...
Can't find the original articles, but here are a few quotes from some Whether or not snakes are immune to their own venom is still a point of controversy despite the fact that detailed observation to do with this phenomenon and much research on the subject has been carried out by many people including Douglas, Nicholl & Peck (1933) and Kellaway (1931). Kellaway (1931) concluded that Australian venomous snakes were not only immune to their own venoms, but also to similar types of venoms from other species of snakes. Douglas, Nicholl & Peck (1933) concluded that some highly venomous North American snakes exhibited no exceptional immunity to their own venoms within the context of injection by one snake into another similar snake if the species has highly potent venom. Here is some more from a book... Snake Study
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: blancobuster]
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08/10/12 03:36 PM
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thats crazy. I've never heard of that happening, but I did hear that they aren't immune to their own venom
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: HuntinForTail]
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08/10/12 03:48 PM
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Let The Air Out of 'Em
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Maybe he is cross eyed and just missed.. 
What you really need is a 300 Winchester Magnum. That is the best caliber on the planet, probably even in the solar system and maybe the universe.
Go get him! Shoot him in the face!
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: Let The Air Out of 'Em]
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08/11/12 07:06 PM
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I've seen a water mocasin do that after he was shot once but never a snake do that as soon as he was picked up.
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: dk1051]
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08/11/12 08:17 PM
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I've been told that if it's not a clean kill, and the rattler writhes around, not to eat him, because he may have bit himself, but never have heard of one biting himself just being picked up.
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: unclebubba]
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08/11/12 08:21 PM
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Justin T
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One time I unloaded my .22 into a rattlesnake. Pulled it out of the brush. And it bit itself as well.
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
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08/12/12 03:05 AM
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
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08/12/12 03:40 AM
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mulie_mike
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That's crazy. I wish everyone I saw bit itself.
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Re: Dumbest snake I ever did saw!
[Re: mulie_mike]
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08/12/12 02:13 PM
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Most snakes can ingest their own venom with no ill effects at all, but if the venom is injected into their blood stream, they will not have immunity to the venom.
This is not only my beliefs but also based on internet research from numerous current articles.
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