Re: Watch your step out there.
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 7:32 pmWelcome. You can stay but your buddy has to go.
Rick wrote:Welcome. You can stay but your buddy has to go.
Lol
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 7:32 pmRe: Watch your step out there.
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:52 pmLol
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 9:51 amLambo88 wrote:This guy was killed across the street from my house last me. Also wanted to say hello. I'm new here.
Welcome! And I'm not afraid of snakes by themselves but my fear of stepping on or near one I don't see is very real!
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 10:20 am
that is a prefect example of why I will stay up NorthRe: Watch your step out there.
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 10:23 amDukMan wrote:
Yup. You guys can keep those things
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 12:25 pmDukMan wrote:
N. Alabama is a very southerly "north".
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:02 pmOlly wrote:DukMan wrote:
N. Alabama is a very southerly "north".
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 8:14 pmGoldfish wrote:DukMan wrote:
Yup. You guys can keep those things
Still have rattlers up here
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 9:49 pmNuffDaddy wrote:Goldfish wrote:DukMan wrote:
Yup. You guys can keep those things
Still have rattlers up here
You're right, but in almost 27 years I have seen 1.
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 9:52 pmWoody wrote:NuffDaddy wrote:Goldfish wrote:DukMan wrote:
Yup. You guys can keep those things
Still have rattlers up here
You're right, but in almost 27 years I have seen 1.
Yup. Haha. I saw one about 8 years ago and that's it for me too
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 10:54 pmIm from Wisconsin ... None of those round here
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 11:18 pmDukMan wrote:Im from Wisconsin ... None of those round here
Oh yes there are...
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/endangeredresou ... arade03011
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:52 amNuffDaddy wrote:Goldfish wrote:DukMan wrote:
Yup. You guys can keep those things
Still have rattlers up here
Not in DA UP!!!!!!!
Watch your step out there.
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:06 amWould make a nice belt.
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:13 pmOlly wrote:NuffDaddy wrote:Goldfish wrote:DukMan wrote:
Yup. You guys can keep those things
Still have rattlers up here
Not in DA UP!!!!!!!
They are, but not in any real numbers. Just like in mn and wi
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:16 pmGoldfish wrote:Olly wrote:NuffDaddy wrote:Goldfish wrote:DukMan wrote:
Yup. You guys can keep those things
Still have rattlers up here
Not in DA UP!!!!!!!
They are, but not in any real numbers. Just like in mn and wi
I was told personally by a DNR biologist that rattle snakes or any venomous reptiles did not exist in the UP. Said that only lower MI below Traverse city had them and in very few numbers at that.
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 2:03 pmOlly wrote:
I was told personally by a DNR biologist that rattle snakes or any venomous reptiles did not exist in the UP. Said that only lower MI below Traverse city had them and in very few numbers at that.
They aren't known to be in the UP.
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 2:08 pmThat is one nice thing about living in Chicagoland, there aren't many, but no poisonous snakes is nice when doing anything in snakey conditions.
We do have some big ass water snakes. Still make me jump, but quickly don't worry about it.
My regular duck hunting partner seems scared of snakes. We were clearing brush and I found about a 4" snake. Picked it up since I thought it was funny to see such a tiny snake. He was a few feet away. As soon as I said hey look, he starts leaning backwards. I thought about tossing it too him, but figured he could beat my ass, so best not.
We do have some big ass water snakes. Still make me jump, but quickly don't worry about it.
My regular duck hunting partner seems scared of snakes. We were clearing brush and I found about a 4" snake. Picked it up since I thought it was funny to see such a tiny snake. He was a few feet away. As soon as I said hey look, he starts leaning backwards. I thought about tossing it too him, but figured he could beat my ass, so best not.
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 2:16 pmSpinnerMan wrote:That is one nice thing about living in Chicagoland, there aren't many, but no poisonous snakes is nice when doing anything in snakey conditions.
We do have some big ass water snakes. Still make me jump, but quickly don't worry about it.
My regular duck hunting partner seems scared of snakes. We were clearing brush and I found about a 4" snake. Picked it up since I thought it was funny to see such a tiny snake. He was a few feet away. As soon as I said hey look, he starts leaning backwards. I thought about tossing it too him, but figured he could beat my ass, so best not.
Wrong!
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 2:41 pmWoody wrote:SpinnerMan wrote:That is one nice thing about living in Chicagoland, there aren't many, but no poisonous snakes is nice when doing anything in snakey conditions.
We do have some big ass water snakes. Still make me jump, but quickly don't worry about it.
My regular duck hunting partner seems scared of snakes. We were clearing brush and I found about a 4" snake. Picked it up since I thought it was funny to see such a tiny snake. He was a few feet away. As soon as I said hey look, he starts leaning backwards. I thought about tossing it too him, but figured he could beat my ass, so best not.
Wrong!
The Massauga population is very very small, if it exists at all. While yes technically there may be a few in the Chicagoland area, not enough worth worrying about. Probably more likely to see a panther or a wolf than a massasauga.
http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/prairie/htmls/popups/reptiles_massasauga.html
In Illinois, this endangered species is found in scattered colonies in marshy land. It once occurred in the northern four-fifths of the state, but intensive farming has decreased its habitat.
Colonies have been found in recent years in Clinton County in southern Illinois, Piatt County in east central Illinois, Knox County in western Illinois, and DuPage, Cook, and Will counties in northeast Illinois.
Dupage, Cook, and Will are Chicagoland.
http://www.dupageforest.org/Conservation/Managing_Natural_Resources/DuPage_Plants_and_Wildlife/Amphibians_and_Reptiles/Snakes.aspx
Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus)
NOTE: The eastern massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus), a small rattlesnake and the only venomous snake that has ever been recorded in DuPage County, hasn’t been seen in the county in 20 years and is believed to be extirpated.
That is if there are any at all. Some sources say none at all. Others say there are a few. Zero or practically zero works for me
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:18 pm39 years, have yet to see one - which means the first one I see will probably bite me right in the wiener
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:10 pm i just died laughing... And I'm in the NE of Wisco so i repeat - none by me 
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:12 pmDeadEye_Dan wrote:39 years, have yet to see one - which means the first one I see will probably bite me right in the wiener
That's most likely
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:30 pmHell fire boys. Gotta be tougher than that. See them weekly in the ROW
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 6:52 amSteele22 wrote:Hell fire boys. Gotta be tougher than that. See them weekly in the ROW
Tough ain't going to save you from venom! REALLY my fear isn't so much me getting bite by a snake but by my dog running into one.
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:06 amOlly wrote:Steele22 wrote:Hell fire boys. Gotta be tougher than that. See them weekly in the ROW
Tough ain't going to save you from venom! REALLY my fear isn't so much me getting bite by a snake but by my dog running into one.
Gramps has immunity. Puts venom in his coffee every morning.
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:38 amYou got that right. Truth be told I run like a bitch. I hate the damn things. Copperheads are worse here but see plenty of rattlers
Watch your step out there.
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:42 amSteele22 wrote:You got that right. Truth be told I run like a bitch. I hate the damn things. Copperheads are worse here but see plenty of rattlers
Copperheads scare the living shit out of me. Those big bastards will curl up in the nest boxes in the chicken house. It's no bueno when you reach your hand in there in the dark and feel something slick.