Scared the crap out of my wife and daughter, they told me no more trips to the lease with me. It measured 4'9". Any guess what type of snake it is?

crazy colors... i'm guessing a blotted water snake...suckers huge for sure!
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EDIT:..that's funny about the wife... my wife and son swim in our pond.. so the other day.. been drinkin all day.. she's floating . i'm fishing... and out the corner of my eye.. had to of been man..30 yards.. is this water snake swimming across the pond... i mean it looks over 3ft long.. sun shining on it.. ..had a gold look with black stripes.....(fail)-- so i calmly say.... don't be alarmed but look to your left.--(fail).. ..i've never seen a drunk girl jump and fall off a raft so many times.. crying ..and trying to hold a beer.... she swore she's never swimming in there again!!!.... ..2 weeks pass..... new float and 12pk..she's back in the water!!!!! lol

chris...

that WAS a good snake

Yea pretty dam long, I tried to stay brave "for the wife and kid" but I was scare for my daughter who is 4 and was walking about 3 feet away from the sanke

+1 just a bull snake.

That's funny, Chris.

Good snake big bull snake

It was a bull snake which is nice to have around since they eat rattlesnakes, but now it's a dead snake. The rattlers will be by shortly to thank you.

I turn them suckers loose under my house to kill the copperheads

absolutely, to bad people are so dam kill happy, I totally understand venomous snakes @ the house, this had a big part of nature.

It's not that most people are kill happy, it's that they can't identify one snake from another.

Sadly a good bull snake. Wouldn't have bothered yall and probably just moved along.

Well now I know what a bull snake looks like and does! Yesterday when it was close to my 4 year old daughter to me it was a " bad snake". Thank you for educating me on snakes. And too bad I didn't know what kind of snake it was I wouldn't of killed it, now I feel kind of bad

Ditto! There is simply no substitute for ignorance.....

Just because a snake is venomous does not make it "bad", they all have a role in nature. I can understand how people feel about killing venomous snakes around the house, barn, etc...but if they are away from people, let them alone unless you prefer rats and mice in all you stuff! JMO

No worries panther, I think they are being a little hard on you. Bull snakes have been known to kill a rattlesnake, but rattlers are not their primary diet. It was a good snake, but I would bet most folks on this forum would have done the same as you...especially if they couldn't identify the snake.

I am all for leaving snakes and I even relocate rattlers out of our camp without killing them, but I sure don't blame one of the other guys for killing them.

Or just get a barn cat and they will take care of both the snakes and rats


....or is it a bad thing if my cat kills one too?

I have a Springer XDm 4.5 9mm. It has 19+1=20 rounds.
I have 6 magazines at the ready to Kill at least 6 snakes!

Thanks txshntr am sure im not the only one who has done something like this. Ignorance yes, thats one of the reason i did it, but the main reason is that it was close to my daughter and my natural sense of protection took over me and if your a dad you know what i mean.
We hadn't seen any snakes at our place in about 4 or 5 years, the landowner let some guy catch them and he got about 200+ snakes, so i didn't really worry about snakes till now.

Bull Snake

Yep, now you know.

I caught one a few days ago on the way to a friend's house. I turned it loose on his place. He was pretty happy about it.

Would anyone have any suggestions for me to deter rattle snakes from around our home. We live in Weatherford, and have 3 rattlesnakes in the back yard and one sounds like it made it to under our front porch, deck. Anything I can put out that is natural and will chase them away? All suggestions greatly appreciated. I would rather have them go away than have them destroyed.

Remove their food source and they will leave on their own.