Thread 2835476

Is /out/ brave enough to pick up a wild snake?

>>2835476 (OP)
Why would you be stupid enough to do this? At least the guy went /out/ unlike most people here I guess.

>>2835476 (OP)
if the snake rattles? No.
If the snake is native to my area? AFAIK worst that can happen is more akin to a bee sting so yeah.

most dangerous snake around my parts can barely kill a mouse, ive literally seen one killed by ants, so, i leave then alone, they have it hard enough

I'm actually TERRIFIED of wild animals, bugs, all that and I've noticed in general others seem MORE fearful of snakes than I am - when I have encountered snakes they usually are coiled and sunning and you just go around them and nothing happens.

But I've seen others turn back to just avoid having to even go near them.
Anyways, this happened at Savage Gulf which I need to get back to soon. It's a really long narrow gorge which has a trail running much of the length - I'm just doing a short little hike to the "Stone Door" but it would be super cool if someone here backpacked the whole thing and posted their experience.

>>2835476 (OP)
I had to get one out of my tent once while camping with wife outside of Provo
>come back from a hike
>fucker was curled real comfy right on the center of my sleeping bag where my chest would be
>wife sees it and immediately begins screaming
>almost sit on the snake because she didn't communicate wtf she was yelling about
>at least he wasn't inside the bag or I'd have been dead I'm from the Olympic peninsula and we don't have this crap to deal with
>finally hear rattle over the shrieking
>jump back
>wife sees back door of tent in front of her vision and for some reason jumps over the dam snake to get over to unzip it instead of backing out the open main door behind us
>erratic rattling intensifies
>slowly move back because I'm like 2 feet from this thing
>wife now running circles around the tent screaming for a park ranger as if we didn't hike 6 miles seeing nobody to get to this spot
>finally exit tent and wife has climbed up on a 4 foot tall rock to help her voice carry better
>just leave her up there
>went around back and lifted the tent up
>probably floorless was a bad idea but like I said ain't from round these parts
>grabbed the foot of the sleeping bag and drug it out under the side of the tent
>bastard just sat there rattlin and didn't move
>grabbed the feet of the bag again
>try to do the thing where you pull a table cloth out from under a wine glass but with a snake
>failed of course but it launched the snake about 15 feet into a little brush patch at the edge of camp
>wife still in full conductor we have a problem mode
>buried the edges of the tent in the dirt
>shook out everything
>drag the wife inside and zipped up as tight as the mummies would zip
never saw the snake again and that was fine with me
divorced her 2 years later and that was fine with me too

>>2835510
remind me to get a tent with a floor.

why is /out/ so scared of rattlesnakes?

>>2835514
why do you carry an anime doll with you are you a fag?

>>2835476 (OP)
My name is Jeff Liebowitz and I'm the only man retarded enough to get bitten by an inland taipan. I'm also the only man who survived.

My rival is this asshole who has been letting less poisonous snakes bite him for nye on a decade at this point. So much that they were able to formulate an antivenom from his blood. Big whoop. You ever been bitten by an inland taipan?

Didn't think so.

I’ve seen all five species of venomous snakes in my state and have never once even thought about picking them up. I’ve seen numerous non-venomous snakes and only picked up the ones in my yard that the dogs were harassing. It stresses out the snake; just leave it alone.

>>2835517
Honestly. I think what anon did there makes him less a fag than 50% or more on this board.

>>2835476 (OP)
>Is /out/ brave enough to pick up a wild snake?
only animechads are brave enough

>>2835517
can't be srs business all the time, got to have some fun too

>>2835538
this

only garter snakes. they're cool little guys

>>2835476 (OP)
I have used a shitty extendable roasting fork in lieu of a proper snake hook to remove timber rattlers from my campsite twice. They are very tolerant of handling, I guarantee this guy was doing stupid shit in addition to simply grabbing the snake. Most snakebite victims are bit in the hands or face and most are men 15-35, who choose to fuck with the snake more than necessary.
>>2835510
Sounds like your only mistake was the diamond.

>>2835476 (OP)
I've picked up plenty of snakes, but I know better than to pick up pit vipers. Neroidia are the most bitey.

>>2835476 (OP)
I have. You hold it down with a stick and grab it behind the head so it can't bite you, then you can dispose of it however you want.

>>2835618
Why would you bother when you could use the same stick to shop it away?

>>2835476 (OP)
mate snakes are no joke
im australian and i regularly see them boxing kangaroos and trying to show off judo moves against hikers
see picrel, he gets tackled by something barely 1% of his weight

>>2835514
Because they like to go under your tent at night and then get angry when you get out of it in the morning.

>>2835476 (OP)
One of the nuttiest scenes I ever saw was a couple of American Football-built Serbians terrified by garter snakes. I haven't picked them up, but walked barefoot among dozens of them one May morning.

I was once overlanding in my vehicle in a rain forest in Australia and there was a python crossing the road, I stopped the car got out and watched it pass then I continued driving. Whilst driving I thought "huh, I probably could have gotten a stick and grabbed it by the tail and politely moved it" maybe next time, I have never held a snake before so it would make me feel quite macho but also it got out of the way on its own time and it was quite majestic so maybe its better to leave it untouched.

Where I am if you get bitten by a snake /out/ you're not getting help in time, it's over.

>>2835476 (OP)
hell no

>>2835476 (OP)
i'd probably kill it and eat it ngl

>be me live Inna desert, pima county AZ to be exact
>live very rural village, no stoplights, no street signs, just big housing lots and bigger housing lots, open desert all around, no stores but two gas stations and a tire shop.
>last month went out around 9pm get my metal folding bed frame to lay out and watch the stars, smoke a ciggie, catch a cool breeze
>walking in dark barefoot to get something near a shed.
>hear that rattle, more of a loud buzzing almost
> freeze, didn't have flashlight, so used my phone light, took a few moments to zero in and see it.
>I'm sorry snake, you're in me yard and neighbors have little kids that play outside alot
> I'm going to kill ya but please don't take it personally, there is just to many opportunities for people including myself to get bit here
>go to find a flat shovel 100 feet away in the dark come back, snake still there, sorry, give him the chop one handed while holding the phone light in other hand
It was a tree footer. A few years ago I kill two in month.
My neighbor on opposite side has a high mound for her big brick house and found a hole next to her backyard with one rattlr called fire department.
They came and move big stack of junk around hole. Pulled out o rattlrs including a six footer. I told her high mound is now the rattlr birthing gound and winter hibernation spot

>>2835940
>pulled out 9 rattlers.
The rattle snake seeks out a place higher off the flood plain of desert to mate and lay eggs.
Like a small hill, mountain side or in my neighbors case a six foot high dirt mound to lay the foundation of her house. To keep it off the desert flood plain which gets a foot or more of water through her yard on a good heavy monsoon storm. Turns her house into a island for a few hours.
She always has rattle snakes around her three acres. They cross our yard to get to hers.

>>2835476 (OP)
I picked up a green rattlesnake in California.

>>2835940
I hope you get packrats in your insulation.

t. fellow Zonafag

>>2835586
Ive caught rattlers.
And many, many other species.
Ill catch any snake i find.
Except racers/coachwhips.
Fuck those tweakers.

>>2836012
>Ill catch any snake i find
y tho Are you trying to catch them all?

>>2836460
It would be extremely based to carry snakes around in small plastic balls and throw them at people

I pick up these little guys all the time.

One of the only species to gave bros that it goes and visits on a daily basis.

>>2835580
One fell out of a tree and bite my eyebrow as a kid. Idk how he got up there but my buddy and i took turns slamming him on the ground. It was still squirming a bit and my buddy said it was about to give birth. We brought it to my dad and he said its back was broken and cut its head off and told me to throw it away. When my friend went home my dad beat the crap outta me for 'listening to a boy who will pump gas for a living'.

>>2836460
Unironically yes.
I have an Auduban reptile field guide that I got as a kid some 35 years ago and I check off everything I've found. If I can get a good 100% identifiable look at a snake ill leave it be but normally I'll have to catch it and take some pics to later verify exactly what it is.
Like "was it a juvenile DeKay's snake or a ringneck??"
Pic is a Dekay's hatching btw.

>>2837457
That's kinda based, honestly

>>2835517
uh it's the snake's doll bro and they are fags they can literally fuck themselves

>>2835543
do they shove it in the tube or wait for it to half crawl in
and i don't understand why people think just cause they have the head under control they're safe theres a video where a snake uses its body to coil around and form a deathgrip around someone's hand

>>2835720
that's more terrifying than a bear or a wolf lurking about

>>2835519
Fuck I remember Jeff. It’s honestly a shame the snake that bit him was only a baby

>>2835510
*dragged
"drug" is something else, as in "I dragged my wife out of the tent and had to drug her to make her stfu"