RickIowa2009
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How's that new detector working? Any Luck?
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Lisa !!!!!
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TreasureDigger
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Yeah! So far, so good! I'm really liking the 70! Haven't had many opportunities to get out with it, but I'm liking it so far. Still got some learning to do though. Still haven't figured out what's going on with getting the EXACT same signals and numbers for trash, nails, AND the good stuff. I'm sure it will just take time to figure that out. It will soon be getting too hot here for detecting (too hot for me anyway), plus I don't want to deal with the snakes either. Hopefully I will be able to get out a few more times before I put my stuff away for the summer. We've been having some days in the mid 70's so it wont be long. We're back into the low 60's today but I'm sure it will warm back up real soon.
Lisa
Lisa
TreasureDigger
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Yep, we've got PLENTY of snakes down here. An over abundance of them. I hate their little guts! Big ones, huge ones, little ones, poisonous and nonpoisonous. Our poisonous snakes here are; Cottonmouths, rattle snakes (different varieties - eastern diamondback, canebrake, timber rattlers, pygmy rattlers, etc.), copperheads, and coral snakes. Years ago, coral snakes were only found down along our coastal areas, but are (according to reports) migrating north. It was in a local newspaper, not too long ago, that some coral snakes were found just 40 miles south from where I live here in northeast Alabama. As for the nonpoisonous kind, there are too many to even begin to name. Something that seems to be becoming a concern is that so many people have had boa constrictors and pythons as pets, and when they get too big to handle (or the owner gets tired of them) they are releasing them in the wild and they are starting to multiply. I actually ran over a boa constrictor on the road about three years ago. I've heard that these snakes are becoming a major concern for people in south Florida, especially around the Everglades. Not sure of the details on that though.
Lisa
Lisa
RickIowa2009
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Time for a rattle snake dinner!
dirtdigginlady
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ughhhhhhhhhhh I hate their guts too. I can't stand to look at them. While I was at the beach, my friend's little grandson had a rubber one and I hid it away so I didn't have to look at it.
A
Anonymous
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Me too, Lisa and ddl! I don't even like to see them on TV or any pics of them! They give me really bad dreams, if I even watch a program about them, so I DON'T!! Now I know Semperfi (Bill) will be posting his pics now and I hate them even if they aren't real snakes! YUCKY CRITTERS for sure! 
May God Bless and keep us safe from the Sneaky Snake and others, especially the poisonous ones! Amen! 
Ma Betty
May God Bless and keep us safe from the Sneaky Snake and others, especially the poisonous ones! Amen! Ma BettyTURNMASTER
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I have heard Rattle Snake is REAL good fried (if not a little rubbery). It would give you a chance to get back at those squirmy little buggers!!!
Jeff
Jeff
TreasureDigger
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No thanks, Jeff! I AIN'T eating a snake! 
I hate them! I don't even like to see them! No way I'd even touch one (except with the business end of a hoe or other long handled object, to lop off their heads). I wont even pick up a snake skin. I'll settle for getting my revenge with a hoe, shovel, big stick, tire of my Jeep, or a bullet... but not with a fork, thank you very much! 
Lisa
I hate them! I don't even like to see them! No way I'd even touch one (except with the business end of a hoe or other long handled object, to lop off their heads). I wont even pick up a snake skin. I'll settle for getting my revenge with a hoe, shovel, big stick, tire of my Jeep, or a bullet... but not with a fork, thank you very much! Lisa
TreasureDigger
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First of all, Ma, you were saying you couldn't watch snake shows on TV; I am actually fascinated by snake shows. I enjoy watching them on TV, but not when there's no protective barrier between them and me! I even like to look at them through the glass at aquariums, the zoo or other exhibits. But I still HATE them and will not touch them. I don't even like to touch pictures of them.
I don't know if I've ever told it here on the forum or not, but my daughter, Julie, has been bitten by a copperhead and a rattle snake. The copperhead bit her through her tennis shoe and only one fang deposited a little bit of venom just under the skin, on the side of her foot. It only went underneath the skin (kind of like how you can slide a straight pin under your skin without making yourself bleed). Since it didn't penetrate down into the meat of her foot, the venom didn't get into her bloodstream so she didn't have to have any anti-venom. The side of her foot did swell a good bit and turned a dark pinkish/purplish color. The skin finally peeled off in that area. She has a shiny light pink scar there now. That happened when she was in the 11th grade (She is 21 now).
When the rattle snake bit her it was on her arm, but it delivered a "dry bite" and didn't deposit enough venom to get into her bloodstream. Again, she didn't have to have anti-venom. I don't have a picture of her foot from when the copperhead bit her, but I do have a picture of the rattle snake bite. Even though it was considered a "dry bite" it still caused a nasty looking place on her arm that was there for over a month, and her arm did swell a lot and turned ugly colors and was all splotchy. She has a scar there now, but it isn't all that noticeable, especially if you aren't looking for it, are already know it's there. That happened summer before last. I'll attach the pictures of that bite area. The pictures were taken with one of her friend's cell phone and is horrible quality, but you can still see how much it swelled and how it was all splotchy and nasty looking.
Lisa
This first picture was taken a few hours after she was bitten. I drew circles around the fang marks but it was already swollen enough that you might not be able to really see them in the pic.
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This second picture was taken about two weeks later. It's still very swollen and has a blister looking place on it.
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I don't know if I've ever told it here on the forum or not, but my daughter, Julie, has been bitten by a copperhead and a rattle snake. The copperhead bit her through her tennis shoe and only one fang deposited a little bit of venom just under the skin, on the side of her foot. It only went underneath the skin (kind of like how you can slide a straight pin under your skin without making yourself bleed). Since it didn't penetrate down into the meat of her foot, the venom didn't get into her bloodstream so she didn't have to have any anti-venom. The side of her foot did swell a good bit and turned a dark pinkish/purplish color. The skin finally peeled off in that area. She has a shiny light pink scar there now. That happened when she was in the 11th grade (She is 21 now).
When the rattle snake bit her it was on her arm, but it delivered a "dry bite" and didn't deposit enough venom to get into her bloodstream. Again, she didn't have to have anti-venom. I don't have a picture of her foot from when the copperhead bit her, but I do have a picture of the rattle snake bite. Even though it was considered a "dry bite" it still caused a nasty looking place on her arm that was there for over a month, and her arm did swell a lot and turned ugly colors and was all splotchy. She has a scar there now, but it isn't all that noticeable, especially if you aren't looking for it, are already know it's there. That happened summer before last. I'll attach the pictures of that bite area. The pictures were taken with one of her friend's cell phone and is horrible quality, but you can still see how much it swelled and how it was all splotchy and nasty looking.
Lisa
This first picture was taken a few hours after she was bitten. I drew circles around the fang marks but it was already swollen enough that you might not be able to really see them in the pic.
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This second picture was taken about two weeks later. It's still very swollen and has a blister looking place on it.
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7centsworth
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We have copper heads and rattlers here, But they hate my litte guts. BEcause I never see them much when I am in the woods. Maybe it is my gun on my side they hate. I do not mind snakes if I see them before I get to close. One time I stepped right beside a cow snake and it jumped at me. I let out a litte holler then, then I calmed down after i seen what Kind it really was.
TreasureDigger
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Do y'all have coachwhips? We do, and I'm always soooooo afraid of one getting on me!!!!!!! You can be walking along and they will jump at you and will wrap themselves around your leg (very quickly, in the blink of an eye). As soon as they wrap around you, they appear as though they are "whipping" you with their tail... that's how they get the name, "coachwhip." When I was growing up I heard people tell stories about coachwhips and then would hear others say that they figured that was just an old wives tale (because they'd never seen it happen). But I know for a fact that it's true. I was in a pasture with my uncle when I was about 12 and one jumped and wrapped around his leg. I SAW IT HAPPEN. Same thing happened to my brother-in-law a few years ago.
Hey, I'll shoot them too! In a heartbeat! I've shot many snakes in my lifetime! Lizards too.
Lisa
Hey, I'll shoot them too! In a heartbeat! I've shot many snakes in my lifetime! Lizards too.
Lisa
SEMPERFI61
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n/t
TURNMASTER
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Yup can't bite you when its cut up and on your plate. Making my mouth water!
TreasureDigger
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I'll pass....
Lisa
Lisa
7centsworth
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I have heard the old coachwhip story , but none around hear. What do they look like?
RickIowa2009
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I have a snake ring for Lisa! Found it last year!
A
Anonymous
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Hi Lisa and Travis,
My brother saw a Whipsnake in an old house one time used as a hay barn. Dad and him were stacking hay in it and Cliff looked up on the rafter and there was a Whipsnake (that's what we call them in MO). He told dad about it and dad said that's a Whipsnake and it won't bother you! Later on he looked and it was gone! Never saw one, myself, and never heard that they would jump on you and wrap around your leg! Their tails look like a plaided whip that cowboys used and others!
I left the country and don't see any around my place here, but was a dead one under one of my shrubs when I came back from the country one time and I didn't like even seeing it and I guess I managed to get it up and put in the trash can....but don't remember any more! Have no idea where it came from or if someone killed it and put it there (like ex-husbands) or ?????, because I've never seen a live one in this area of South County but there could be, because there are farms with fields and woods close by! May God Bless! Amen! Ma Betty
My brother saw a Whipsnake in an old house one time used as a hay barn. Dad and him were stacking hay in it and Cliff looked up on the rafter and there was a Whipsnake (that's what we call them in MO). He told dad about it and dad said that's a Whipsnake and it won't bother you! Later on he looked and it was gone! Never saw one, myself, and never heard that they would jump on you and wrap around your leg! Their tails look like a plaided whip that cowboys used and others!
I left the country and don't see any around my place here, but was a dead one under one of my shrubs when I came back from the country one time and I didn't like even seeing it and I guess I managed to get it up and put in the trash can....but don't remember any more! Have no idea where it came from or if someone killed it and put it there (like ex-husbands) or ?????, because I've never seen a live one in this area of South County but there could be, because there are farms with fields and woods close by! May God Bless! Amen!
Ma Betty