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Handforged:

--- Quote from: JEB on April 30, 2020, 06:03:27 am --- I have a terrible phobia with snakes, scared to death of any snake. I do use the skin for cresting arrows .

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My dad told me when I was a kid that I wasn't smart enough to be scared of anything? There might be some truth there. When I was a kid I picked a baby rattle snake up in the yard and brought it up on the porch. I stepped on it and grabbed it by the back of the head but my pa still slapped it out of my hand. Then proceeded to build a nice enclosure for me to keep it in my room. Equipped with a feeding tube for mice and padlocks so I couldn't get it out and play with it.   I actually love snakes. I think they are gorgeous animals. All while hunting and eating them, which I think is a part of appreciating them.

We wear snake boots and carry snake hooks to handle them. I've been bitten a few times over the years and I wouldn't recommend it. However taking safe precautions handling them is relatively safe. The biggest thing is learning not to jump or scream like a girl when you almost step on one. I'm pretty good at locating them but their camo is beyond compare. I still have that cold chill when I hear one start rattling right next to me that I didn't see first.

I much prefer someone to tell me they are legitimately scared of snakes before going out to places like this WHERE YOU WILL SEE SNAKES, as opposed to pretending to be a macho man. Then at the first sign of a snake they jump 6 ft in the air and run scared for the truck with tears in their eyes. (that actually happened) He spent an hour on the drive telling me how he caught snakes all the time, typical bravado. Then when we got there he took 10 big steps and there was a large female coiled up rattling. He ran scared and refused to get out of the truck. When I got the tears out of my eyes laughing, I read him a riot act of why what he did was a bad thing. Also maybe in the future to just tell the truth.

Handforged:
Here are a few more pictures taken by the PRO while I was working. These were all snakes that ended up coming home with me. The wife is an excellent photographer and insisted on pictures before I dispatched them.

bjrogg:
I think they are beautiful to. We have very few poisonous ones though. I have never seen one myself. When I was a single I had a tarantula and a small snake for “pets” I would catch crickets for them. They were both just amazingly beautiful.

Bjrogg

I’d still like to eat one though.

GlisGlis:
the tweens picture is awesome
beautiful  animals

mullet:
With their coloration and the rocks I can see where it wouldn't be hard to not almost step on one without seeing them. that's why I hate Moccasins, you not only have to look for them on the ground but also on low limbs in trees.

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