No love yet.

Just for Giddings- weapon and footwear. Not really appropriate for snake hunting.



I thought I spotted one, but it was the hose to a sprayer…


Got to watch this guy doing some serious work. Spiders are unbelievable builders! (As long as they are outside)


In typical OB Goin Live fashion, the only blood that was drawn so far was from a non-target species. This SOB decided to dive bomb me, and paid the price. Maybe he will serve as a bait pile for a copperhead!


Is this the work of a cicada killer?

Hey OP! Missing bears in the living room yet?!?!

Put the cicada in the trap?

cryption said:

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I've gone down the snake battle. We had a nest of copperheads under our patio. Here's what I figured out - they like to move along flat surfaces - think the walls of your house. They will slither along the wall. So what I did is made what I call the "Snake Den." I basically took a cardboard box and folded it into a tunnel and then put gorilla tape on it. Put that along the wall and when they slither through it they get stuck. I tried a bunch of different iterations of tape - covering the whole thing - a chevron - an X. I found the X to be the best balance. It catches them but also is the most efficient use of tape. I caught 7 snakes in 4 days with my snake dens. And IT cost me practically nothing. I used tape I had lying around and old amazon boxes

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What kind of brats?

You have the Giddings "going live" technique down pat!

DatTallArchitect said:

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You have the Giddings "going live" technique down pat!

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Yep. Only thing I was missing was a picture of what I was drinking…

But at least I didn't screw it up by actually killing something!


Maybe I'll have better luck tonight.

bowhuntr said:

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Came to check this thread first! Any luck overnight?

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No luck overnight. Nothing in the traps yet. But I'm going to leave them to do their work.

But I found a little one this morning while mowing. I think he was holed up under a rose bush, and my son and I disturbed him while mowing and weed eating. Thankful I have a myriad of shovels laying around everywhere, because he was booking it for the creek.

More appropriate foot ware this time.

cryption said:

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I've gone down the snake battle. We had a nest of copperheads under our patio. Here's what I figured out - they like to move along flat surfaces - think the walls of your house. They will slither along the wall. So what I did is made what I call the "Snake Den." I basically took a cardboard box and folded it into a tunnel and then put gorilla tape on it. Put that along the wall and when they slither through it they get stuck. I tried a bunch of different iterations of tape - covering the whole thing - a chevron - an X. I found the X to be the best balance. It catches them but also is the most efficient use of tape. I caught 7 snakes in 4 days with my snake dens. And IT cost me practically nothing. I used tape I had lying around and old amazon boxes

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You should find a way to mass produce and market this.

And we could get Steve Earle to promote it…

Snake Den … patent pending hah.

aggiesundevil4 said:

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And we could get Steve Earle to promote it…

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Ray WylieHubbard you mean?

JABQ04 said:

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aggiesundevil4 said:

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And we could get Steve Earle to promote it…

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Ray WylieHubbard you mean?

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Steve Earle. Copperhead road.

Gunny456 said:

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This.
My nephew who lives in MO had a large white oak in his yard. It gets loaded with Cicadids and he found 12 copperheads under it in one night. Shotgun wars.
Bad thing was his two kids had been playing under the tree three days before that.
He said that is quite common in the Ozarks.

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Can confirm, my grandparents had a place on the Arkansas side of the Ozarks. Mom was wearing sandals and one got her on the foot. It was 1967 so of course grandpa said it was completely her fault because she wasn't wearing shoes. Darn hippies!

Stringfellow Hawke said:

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JABQ04 said:

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aggiesundevil4 said:

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And we could get Steve Earle to promote it…

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Ray WylieHubbard you mean?

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Steve Earle. Copperhead road.

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Tom T Hall. Sneaky Snake

Correct one time use. Blast it with a shotgun or whatever you want to use

Copperheads must have read this thread, since we have not seen one before the thread was started.

We just built a house east of Hallettsville and everyone warned us to keep on eye out for CHs. We have killed Coral Snakes, Water Moccasins and Rattlesnakes and prior to this thread we never saw a CH. I'm sure they saw us.

Thursday night, I go out to hunt these since the grandkids were coming in for the weekend and our dog is blind. See two and kill one and have been hunting for CHs every night since then. Killed six so far. Have not seen any under any of the oaks (Line, Post and Water), but all have been seen slithering on the dirt between the trees/brush.

Don't mind them in the back of the property but when they are inside the perimeter, they have elected to seek success in the next life.

Animal Eight 84, thanks for sharing the video and everyone for the advice.

Cryption, we are in Sublime on FM 3283. There are a few of us in Lavaca County and would like to meet up with others.

Dispatched a 33" coral snake on Easter Sunday that was about 10' off my patio. Biggest one I ever saw.

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Just in the interest of providing info for people to consider:
Actual research seems to strongly advise against suction for extracting venom, as they pull body fluids and not venom. Suction kits, cutting/bleeding, sucking, ice/cold compresses, and tournequets all seem to actually do more harm than good, despite being popular suggestions for treatment.

https://www.snakebitefoundation.org/blog/2019/1/20/the-truth-about-commercial-snakebite-kits-and-venom-extractors#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20common,much%20longer)%20is%20bad%20information.

" The Sawyer Extractor pump removed bloody fluid from our simulated snakebite wounds but removed virtually no mock venom, which suggests that suction is unlikely to be an effective treatment for reducing the total body venom burden after a venomous snakebite."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14747805/

https://litfl.com/venom-extraction-kits-seriously-just-dont/

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/719737139/experts-say-tourniquets-should-not-be-used-for-snake-bites

Best copperhead trap is bird netting. Buy the cheap stuff with grid patterns slightly smaller than a copperhead's diameter. Cut the netting into 4'x4' pieces. Kinda bunch it up and place in areas where you think they will travel.
The snakes get stuck in the netting and can't back out. Works like a champ. Pretty cheap, easy to set a bunch of the "traps" and they are not an eye sore.