usually play dead? I was weed eating around the camp house to keep it clean and keep copperheads away. In doing so I came across 2 of them. Wacked the heck out of them with the weed eater and they both flipped over with wounds and did not move for several seconds, even after i nudged them. Finished working the yard and came back to pick them up to find that they had slithered away a few feet. Anyway, I found it odd but it gave me a good reason to use my new 20 gauge.

You sure a cat or something else didn't get after them a little?

Oh I am sure. They were both alive and well.

Odd looking hognoses.

Jesus, I will never learn how to post a pic...

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The 20 gauge severed their head. Like I posted above, the weed eater cut them up and they acted dead. 5 minutes later they were still alive and on the move.

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That looks like some good catfish bait... if you cut them into 1" pieces they are hard to beat on a trot line.

Looks like two good ones to me. Excellent shot.

I have had one just lay there coiled up while we (there were about 8 of us) walked all around him working. After about 40 minutes of walking in the area, someone spotted him and we promptly decapitated him.

Ok. Obviously it's not the best picture but I only see one wound on the left most snake in the picture and none on the one of the right that appear to be pre-shotgun.

Just wanted to point that out. One on the right's tail is buggered up but that seems to me to be from the shotgun based on wound and blood color.

F burg. Ag. These copperheads were not located near F burg right?

We ended up killing 4 copper heads today I. The backyard during the BBQ.

Agneck, those copperheads were on our place near Hallettsville. I have never seen a copperhead in Fredericksburg.....plenty of rat snakes and a few rattlers though.