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 Re: coach whip snake
[Re: NDN98]
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08/29/12 02:45 PM
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Kory
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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.
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: Kory]
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08/29/12 03:00 PM
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Tbar
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These stories are great......  Tbar
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: NDN98]
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08/29/12 03:04 PM
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TooLow
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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.
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: Tbar]
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08/29/12 03:06 PM
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Stompy
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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.
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: mbavo]
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08/30/12 12:34 PM
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Skinner0_2
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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.
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: Skinner0_2]
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08/30/12 01:32 PM
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txshntr
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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
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: txshntr]
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08/30/12 01:50 PM
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Coach Whips are good snakes, I used to catch them by hand in my younger days, only got bit once.
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: badger2b]
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08/30/12 01:52 PM
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Get a trash can lid along with a broom handle and fight them like a Spartan Hoplite.
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Re: coach whip snake
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08/30/12 02:23 PM
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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.
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: 8pointdrop]
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08/30/12 06:17 PM
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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.
Practice doesn’t make perfect.
Practice makes permanent.
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: PrimitiveHunter]
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08/30/12 06:21 PM
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Txtrapper10
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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. 
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: Txtrapper10]
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08/31/12 11:38 PM
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Texas Bowhunter
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We have seen them at our lease in mills county
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: Texas Bowhunter]
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09/03/12 08:38 PM
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txshntr
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Just happened to catch one this weekend and it made me think of this thread. 
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: txshntr]
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09/03/12 08:48 PM
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swmays
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he's what? a three footer?
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: swmays]
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09/03/12 08:51 PM
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txshntr
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he's what? a three footer? Close....but wrong snake
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: txshntr]
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09/03/12 09:03 PM
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charliet
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Always picking on the little guy . That snake is every bit of 4 ft hunter has it streached out over his head .
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: charliet]
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09/03/12 09:36 PM
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txshntr
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Re: coach whip snake
[Re: PrimitiveHunter]
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09/05/12 12:09 PM
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Skinner0_2
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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.
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