Well, about 8 years ago, I had one chase me close to 100 yards, and he was gaining ground. I thought it was a myth, till it happened to me twice. The second one chased about 40 yards. And if they were going the same direction as me, they were zig zagging like me..

Cool pic!

Oh hell no, if that sucker started chasing me, I'd start crying like a little girl.

Great pics. Awesome snake. They do NOT chase people. They will only bite if grabbed. They will go the other way 100% of the time if given the opportunity.

Now thats the kind of comment I like reading

deadly to me

Cool snakes but only because I'm in the U.S. If I was in Africa I'd swear it was a Mamba. They look alot alike.

At my Grandparents place up in W. Virginia they had black racers they called em, and they would chase you far as you would run and when you stopped they stopped and when you ran again they'd chase you. They were completely harmless but they put up a good bluff!!

He wouldn't chase me,Cause he couldn't stand the SMELL

Ha,ha,ha

I thought that too till it happened. I gave it plenty of opportunity to go another way,,but it was going my way. I have seen probably 100 CW on the ranch over the years and these were the only 2 to do that. I am here to tell you 100% that they were chasing me.

My family is from WV. When I was younger my sister got chased by one. Lol. It was awesome.

I hope someone shot that can

Went to bbq at a hunting lodge with snake proof fence(they thought)as I walked in gate looked down and 5 footer went scooting by me and I grabbed it up and thought it was cool! Beer had been consumed prior to event!Walked up to window where all the ladies were inside prepping food...nothing but the guys out in yard drinking beer rest of evening!

Now that is funny.

Cool pics

They do. I thougt I would be cool and pick up a "chicken snake" and show my friends at the lab class we were headed to. I stopped the truck opened the door next to what I thought was a chicken snake. It raised up about 3 feet off the ground. The only thing that ran through my mind was Black Mamba! No time to consider they don't live in Nacogdoches TX. I slammed the door shut and burned out of there. My snake wrangler days were over for a very long time.

thats more like a dead snake

Nice pics!

Saw one in Cisco a few months ago. Was gonna take a pic of it and it hauled azz the oppisite direction. Very fast snake.

Coach whips are good snakes.

we had one that lived in the water valve box at our ranch. Scared the chit out of me every time we got there at midnight and I opened the box to turn the valve on. After him being there 3 trips in a row, I was ready and killed him on the 4th trip. I know he was supposedly a "good snake". I made him a "better" snake.

I chased down a coachwip a couple times, once he went under a bag of feed and I was able to grab. The other I took off on a dead sprint after picking up some tin he was under. Caught him after I dove for his tail. Great plan until I had to pick out the goat heads from my gut. We messed with him a bit and turned him loose. The are very doscile once you get past the first bite.

Sir the Coach Whip is probably the most aggresive snake we have in TX, not only have I had them make runs at me I've witnessed it on many others. One of my snake hunting buddies had to have a Cornea transplanr due to a Coach Whip hitting him in the eye when we were working the mouth of a snake den. More than once I've seen them make a run at people.

Saw this one crawl into a piece of pipe on the ground. I wanted his picture so I grabbed him by the tail and pulled.

The good news was I got his picture....even though he was mad as a hornet.

The bad news was he was wrapped around a rattlesnake when he came out of that pipe....




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Nice pictures

thanks

Cool snake

Saw one this morning probably about 5 ft long

That thing looks like he has a drinking problem.

Maybe that explains why they zig-zag so much

Sir...the next time you find yourself being "chased" by a coachwhip (or any snake for that matter), try stopping and seeing what happens. I got money says the snake stops it's "hot pursuit", doesnt bite you and infact goes the opposite way all on his own. I mean, unless you are walking some kind of really tiny dog that looks an awful lot like a rat.....
I am yet to meet a snake that was interested in chasing me down.

Has Killer weighed in on these pics?

Wrong, they will chase. I have had it happen to me. And the snake had the opportunity to go the other way. And they can really move fast when they want to.

suckers are fast, they are more pinkish where we are at

I had one of those things chase me 50 yards when I was squirrel hunting near Fairfield. He'd still be chasing me if I hadn't finally run past his burrow!

I was sitting in an old feeder outside of Abilene Spring turkey hunting when two mice came out of a hole in the floor. I knew a snake was next, but I would of had to get down on all fours to crawl out. No handgun and I didn't have room to point my shotgun anywhere but out through slots in the side. Expected a rattler but out comes a 7 foot coach whip. Know it was 7 ft. because his tail was still in the hole as his head left the feeder--measured it later. He never looked twice at me.

be careful - these things can 'fly' ... well, almost:

Came upon a large one, coiled up and striking at my rabbits in their rabbit coop. Didn't know what it was at the time, but knew it wasn the normal type of ratsnake or bullsnake that I always hand-catch and relocate. Knew it wasn't a rattler, copperhead, or moccassin. With hoe in hand, I took a swing at this thing - it immediately jumped onto hoe handle, then onto tree trunk that was couple feet away. Within a second or so, this thing streaked up about 10 feet, and then onto a branch that was directly over my head, coiled up and started lunging at me!!

It 'coulda' went onto 5 other branches that went 'away' from me, but no, it picked the one directly over my head. I had aleady dropped (more like threw-down) the hoe and was stepping backwards. By now, the wife and older kids were there to see who was 'screaming like a little schoolgirl' - me!. I yelled at them to stay back, and keep an eye on on this 'wicked evil lightning snake' while I ran inside to get something.

Normally I grab an old revolver with ratshot loads to deal with copperheads around the house. But no, this guy started a 'war' with me, and I was going to end it. I grabbed the 12ga pump and was jamming it full of 7.5's as I ran back out. Sure 'nuff it was still waiting for me up on that branch, all coiled up, so blam I let'em have it.

I felt just a little bit bad afterwards when we identified it as non-venomous, but this sucker was over 6ft, fast, and had 'a real bad attitude' and tree-climbing/flying skills that I didn't want to see passed on in the gene pool!!!.

I won't deny they get quite large, are fast as hell and have one very bad attitude when grabbed, persued or cornered. Still going to stand by my statements that they do not intentionally CHASE people.

The one that chased me was moving almost as I could run (and believe, you can run faster than you think) and his head was at least 2' in the air. It looked waist high but that's prolly cause I was stretched out like a Cheetah.

Very cool snakes...just be ready if you think your gona catch one....first time i ever seen one he was standing up like that in a road...darted across the field to catch him and when i finaly got close he turned stood up and flattend his neck....then he was chasing me back to tha truck...suckers are fast.....

I have seen the mock charges from the coach whip, but you grab one and he will bite you 30 times before you can let go...trust me

As far as NO snake chasing you...

Chased a Rat Snake through a fence, when I hit the fence, he turned, came back through the fence and when I got to the road where I could better manage him, he didn't stop...he kept attacking.

Another snake that will chase you is a moccasin. Ended up dancing over the top of one that chased me away from my fish basket.

that is a wild sounding snake. i had never even heard of them until this post.

I grew up hearing about the Black Racers from my dad and a bunch of old folks. When more people worked the land, they were exposed to things more. Things we only encounter when hunting or "in the woods", they encountered on a daily basis in the course of the farming duties. My dad said he and his cousins would play with them for hours at a time, and the snakes never seemed to mind the attention. I have never seen one in person, and am kind of glad. After having been bitten by a Copperhead when I was young, I try to keep my distance from all snakes.

That is a cool Lookin snake

I see those out at camp quite often during the day when I am walking through the brush. They are generally watching me it seems as they have their head held high. None have chased me, generally they have slithered quickly away. I don't bother them, but I do carry a shotgun for the venomous snakes. We have alot of cotton mouths out there and if one of these guys approached me, I don't think that I would take time to identify him.

I shot one last month at the deer lease. Dont know if its illegal to kill them and really didnt care. that thing came out from under the blind and looked like a cobra.

These stories are great......


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Good snake but they will chase you unless he just was going the same way I was. About ten years ago one of them would not stop coming at me. I ran he moved faster so I finally gave up a shot him dead. Had my heart rate going pretty good.

Saw one this morning feeding the cows. I have a lot of them here on the ranch. I see a lot more of them than I do Rattlers. Probably have already seen 20 CW this year. Pretty amazing how fast they are.

Grown men, running from a non venomous snake, and admitting they would scream like a girl. Ide pay to see that. That snake coudnt hurt you if someone froze it solid and beat you with it. A texas rat snake or diamondback water snake, now theres a tussle.Coach whip, HA! I fart in your general direction.

The bite isn't as bad as some of the others, but they will draw blood. Don't think it is so much the bite as it is the "idea" of being bit

Coach Whips are good snakes, I used to catch them by hand in my younger days, only got bit once.

Get a trash can lid along with a broom handle and fight them like a Spartan Hoplite.

I THOUGHT I was gonna catch one of the biggest bull snakes I ever seen. She crossed the road, I stopped hopped the fence and grabbed her tail. That's when the fun started, she turned stood up bout 2' off the ground and was on the attack. Neck flat mouth open and pissed, my BIL still gives me chit about how gracefully I got back over the fence and onto the hood of the truck. She tried a few times to figure out how to get up on the truck before giving up and leaving, it was crazy.

I live on a dirt road and one day as I pulled out, I saw a Rat Snake about 6' long laying right in the middle of the road. So I pulled up to him, stopped, and started getting out of the truck. My Wife instantly starts in on me about it. What are you doing? Get back in the truck! Leave that snake alone! I told her I was just going to move it out of the road before some sheepdip came along and ran over it.

Anybody that's been around big Rat Snakes knows that they aren't particularly afraid of anything. I nudged him with the end of my boot and faster than you can blink, he swung around and bit me on the leg. Actually, he didn't bite me but either he got his teeth hung in my pants leg or he just didn't want to let go. Now I'm in the middle of the road doing my version of the Cooke County River Dance. My Wife is laughing so hard she's crying. I finally get him off my leg and he still won't get out of the road. I ended up getting a loooong stick and pushing him into the ditch.

After it was all over, I looked down the road and our 80-something year old neighbor was standing at his fence watching. I turned around and went the other way so I didn't have to drive past him.

We have seen them at our lease in mills county

Just happened to catch one this weekend and it made me think of this thread.

he's what? a three footer?

Close....but wrong snake

Always picking on the little guy . That snake is every bit of 4 ft hunter has it streached out over his head .

I have been bitten countless times by texas rats, and a miriad of water snakes, and although its not something i dred, as a house cat hurts a whole lot more, i cant sit here and say that when it happens my mouth doesnt go on auto pilot. As for your experience, colubrids (snakes that constrict such as texas rat, racers, etc.) dont bite and hang on unless its a mouse, or a tooth got hung up and they cant let go. At that point it is as freaked as you, so yah i would have paid good money to see that in person, especially to see your "better halfs" reaction. Arent they sweet? Cudos to you for trying to save the rat snake. Snake that big was most likely a female, and a snake eater. Yes rat snakes eat copperheads, yall leave em alone.