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Clearly those creatures aren't a protected species
I don't think there are any Copperheads in Africa, but probably not, due to their hide thicknesses and fat layers, besides their overall size.
Wowza, I've only attended the one in Okeene. We sold our catches to the El Passo zoo for milking and their reptile gardens. We got $0.50/lb live.
I've only stumbled across Timber Rattlers so far here in Oregon, though I understand there are also Western Diamondback. We ate the last one we ran across and turned him into a hat band for my friends kid.
Not much meat, a lot of bones and they taste just like snake or lizard.
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I doubt it. A lot of fat on those critters.
Out in Lapeer County in Michigan around the early 1900's, there were a lot of German immigrants that were farmers. They started out with cows, but Lapeer was a hot spot in the state for massasauga rattlers. Rattler bites cow, cow dies. They started raising hogs. Snake bites hog, hog eats snake. Done deal.
They're really a pretty little snake. My nephew in law had his kids out to a nature area and spotted a snake he'd never seen before and snapped a pic of it to show me. Yep, massasauga. I spent weeks looking for 'em in my younger days and never had seen one in the wild.
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The one that got his fangs stuck in my dungarees weighed 22 pounds. I was walking along with a bag of corn for my feeder.
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Not a chance. About forty-six reasons.
1. Copperheads are venomous, yes... but their venom aint worth crap. Folks just don't die from copperhead bites -- unlike cottonmouths, rattlers, coral snakes.
2. If you have ever watched what a wild oink** does to a far tougher, far more dangerous good-sized rattlesnake in a fight, you would see that a hippo might as well be an Abrams tank relative to a puny, dinky copperhead.
**I saw this once: Mama oink with a veritable herd of baby oinks trundling down a logging road. BIG rattlesnake coils itselfup in the middle. Mama runs at the snake, ignoring its strike, and just runs over the sumbitch. Turns, and the snake strikes again as Mama does another Larry Csonka on it at speed. The snakes fangs bounce off.
After a short while, the buzzer looked like Beetle Bailey after Sarge got done.
Bringing this forward to hippos... A hippo could run over Mama oink the same way she ran over the buzzer. Imagine what the hippo would do to a poncy little twit copperhead: He would stand there and just step on the sumbitch and make it a copperhead cobbler.
I use to catch rattlesnakes with my teeth.
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Good morning, Walter.
No copperheads here. Endemic to the US
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OK, ya crazy bastage... The questions just pile up here. How? Why? Makin' little boars?
High as George W.'s nose on Rushmore, the Ole Farmboy comes out: "Got any sows? They'll breed better'n runnin' Earlene, who clearly thinks Turbo is gay."
Touching Earth for a few seconds: Really... How and Why? I usetra trap hogs up at our hunt camp, but we didn't save them.
And yes, a wild hawg can run surprisingly fast, especially in brush.
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Sunday!
Sunday!
Sunday!
Thrills! Spills! Shake hands with the devil! 1/4 mile of death!
Sunday!
Sunday!
Thrills! Spills! Shake hands with the devil! 1/4 mile of death!
You too my dear!
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Yeah but you got a ton of other things that can kill you ...!
I eat Copperheads for breakfast.
Okay maybe I don't,,but if I did they would be fried and in some white gravy with biscuits.
Damn that's the second time this morning I've thought about biscuits and gravy.
Guess what I'm having for breakfast.
Okay maybe I don't,,but if I did they would be fried and in some white gravy with biscuits.
Damn that's the second time this morning I've thought about biscuits and gravy.
Guess what I'm having for breakfast.
Just asked my Wife and she said no problem. Lord I love this Woman.
Too many. Had two dogs taken out by a puff adder and a Cape Cobra respectively
