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I know jack-chit about snakes, but sure like killing them. My weed-eater got this one. Grass snake? ![[Linked Image]](http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv360/slg888/snake001.jpg)
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Looks like a speckled king snake. Good guy. ![[Linked Image]](http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c154/Skullworks02/lgholbrookiiks407.jpg)
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Looks like a speckled king snake. Good guy. Are they poisionous?
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That's how we do it...Beat em down and the go look up what kind they were. And I have no clue what that was.
your flippant remarks which you so adeptly sling
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You killed a good one.
King snakes eat rats, mice and (when hungry enough) Rattlesnakes, (OK, other snakes in general, but that includes Rattlesnakes, I've seen it).
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iff'n you don't know what it is, why kill it? There are only a couple of poisonous snakes around, the rest are really valuable for keeping the balance in nature.
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Looks like a speckled king snake. Good guy. Are they poisionous? Actually...snakes are not poisonous...they are venomous.  It was a good snake.
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King snakes are non-poisonous. No reason to kill them. They eat other snakes and also rodents.
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That's a coral-headed rattlecoppermocassin - just like the rest of 'em.
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I kill very few snakes as most are good or just plain old harmless but that don't apply to copperheads, hateful little bastards. At least a rattlesnake will warn ya it's there...
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Yep, a King snake, one of the good ones. But try to tell that to my wife! It doesn't matter if it's a 6" grass snake or a timber rattler, she is going to try to kill it. A couple of years ago she come running out of the house with my Marlin Super Goose 10 ga hollering for me to find her some shells. I did just because I wanted to see her shoot a gun that is taller than she is. (Yeah, I can be mean like that.)
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost....
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Ya, I need to let the king snakes live since there on my team.  iff'n you don't know what it is, why kill it? Did not kill it this one, I was using my weed-eater in heavy brush and he got wacked. Moved from FL to TN & Ive never seen a King Snake. Thanks
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That's a coral-headed rattlecoppermocassin - just like the rest of 'em. That's hilarious.
your flippant remarks which you so adeptly sling
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That is my favorite snake.You killed it.A pox on you. I know jack-chit about snakes, but sure like killing them. My weed-eater got this one. Grass snake?
Ideas are far more powerful than guns, We dont let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas. "Joseph Stalin"
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Yep, a King snake, one of the good ones. But try to tell that to my wife! She has already wanted to know "where exactly did you kill it". She will never walk to the NW corner of the yard again.
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They eat Copperheads 'round here...
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Most of the rattlesnakes I've run into, including one I had between my legs, didn't rattle. Might be different in other parts of the country but not here in Kalifornia. Most people get bitten because they step on or too close to one. E
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I know jack-chit about snakes, but sure like killing them.
You should get over that.
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I know jack-chit about snakes, but sure like killing them.
You really are an idiot. And stupid to boot.
Save an elk, shoot a cow.
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Yeah, a rattler will rattle if you step on him but in that case, it's done too late.
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