Alright snake experts, what do we have here?

[BLatta12]

 

[Cletusnow]

Looks like a juvenile king snake. Non venomous.

 

[LSUdude]

Coppertoothrattlemocassin

 

[TopHook]

That's not a copper head?

 

[Don Johnson]

Definitely not an Alabama black snake. Those things are huge!

 

[Ghost Hawg]

Definitely not an Alabama black snake. Those things are huge!

 

[Cletusnow]

Where did you kill this beast?

 

[BLatta12]

Where did you kill this beast?

In the driveway, next to the garage. Almost stepped on that mfer putting up the kids’ toys.

 

[Wagonstick 74]

It’s dead !

 

[rCW702]

Were these pictures taken with whatever came before smartphones? I can confirm it is a snake.

 

[TJHall1]

 

[GarnetPild]

Looks like a copperhead to me.

 

[TJHall1]

Do you have any orchids at your house that an anaconda would be trying to protect?

 

[BLatta12]

Looks like a copperhead to me.

Oh shiz. He did have a triangle shaped head.

 

[TJHall1]

Oh shiz. He did have a triangle shaped head.

Looks like he had a deep fried tenderloin shaped head.

 

[GarnetPild]

Looks like he had a deep fried tenderloin shaped head.

Almost certain that is a fat copperhead.

 

[TJHall1]

Almost certain that is a fat copperhead.

I meant after he got mashed with a shovel on the head. I don't have a fucking clue what kinda snake it is.

 

[GarnetPild]

I meant after he got mashed with a shovel on the head. I don't have a fucking clue what kinda snake it is.

Meant to quote @BLatta12

 

[RHT 3]

I'm guessing some urine releasing and screaming took place initially.

 

[tiderollsonu]

 

[The Want]

Not a copperhead. Tail is too skinny, it’s too dark and it doesnt have those hourglass patterns.

eta: I’m thinking it’s a rat snake or corn snake

here’s one I killed a few years ago.

 

[Joe Kings]

Copper Head OP Im A snake almost expert. Good thing you killed it.

 

[sanction]

GDKC.

Got Damn Kang Cobra

 

[WestcampTX]

Appears to be a snek

 

[22*43*51]

Regardless, you did well to error on the side of @died OP.

 

[GarnetPild]

Not a copperhead. Tail is too skinny, it’s too dark and it doesnt have those hourglass patterns.

eta: I’m thinking it’s a rat snake or corn snake

here’s one I killed a few years ago.

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You may be right, the more I look at the pics. It looks more like a copperhead towards its head end, but not towards its tail. Would be easier to ID if it had a head. Lol

 

[BLatta12]

Went back and found the head for you guys

 

[Cletusnow]

Went back and found the head for you guys
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Taint no copperhead!

 

[imprimis]

Went back and found the head for you guys
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Guessing it's a rat snake.

 

[GarnetPild]

Went back and found the head for you guys
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Nice. As already mentioned, that looks pretty non-venomous. A far cry from this-

 

[TheGratefulReb]

Either some sort of rat snake or corn snake.

 

[TopHook]

Went back and found the head for you guys
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Yeah not a copper.

 

[imprimis]

Nice. As already mentioned, that looks pretty non-venomous. A far cry from this-

Ran into one of these just before Thanksgiving. Was getting firewood from a friend's ranch. Lifted the last log and there he was under it hibernating. Very docile due to cold weather but once the sun hit him he started moving around. Until my friend's 20 ga vaporized him.

 

[GarnetPild]

Ran into one of these just before Thanksgiving. Was getting firewood from a friend's ranch. Lifted the last log and there he was under it hibernating. Very docile due to cold weather but once the sun hit him he started moving around. Until my friend's 20 ga vaporized him.

I have only seen a few copperheads, and they were in my Dad's woodpile. We have those, and cottonmouths where I live, but it's the rattlesnakes that I worry about. Next door neighbor got a pretty bad bite by a canebrake last year at the bottom of her front step, spent 2 days in hospital & got several doses of anti-venom.

I have only seen them dead in the road, but have seen some fatass diamondbacks just a few miles from home. I worry about my dogs finding one of those, or a canebrake.

 

[22*43*51]

Why does nature get scarier the further south you go?

 

[imprimis]

I have only seen a few copperheads, and they were in my Dad's woodpile. We have those, and cottonmouths where I live, but it's the rattlesnakes that I worry about. Next door neighbor got a pretty bad bite by a canebrake last year at the bottom of her front step, spent 2 days in hospital & got several doses of anti-venom.

I have only seen them dead in the road, but have seen some fatass diamondbacks just a few miles from home. I worry about my dogs finding one of those, or a canebrake.

That was the first and only copperhead I've seen in the wild in 70 years. Grandfather used to drop me off with a .22 rifle to shoot cottonmouths at one of the creeks on his ranch. I asked for a .410 but was told it was marksmanship training.

Anti-venom is not cheap!

 

[Cletusnow]

That was the first and only copperhead I've seen in the wild in 70 years. Grandfather used to drop me off with a .22 rifle to shoot cottonmouths at one of the creeks on his ranch. I asked for a .410 but was told it was marksmanship training.

Anti-venom is not cheap!

Perfect snake pistol

 

[thenick_ttu]

Why does nature get scarier the further south you go?

It keeps all the pussies up north, out of God’s country.

 

[Nape]

Congrats on the rat infestation, OP.

 

[GarnetPild]

That was the first and only copperhead I've seen in the wild in 70 years. Grandfather used to drop me off with a .22 rifle to shoot cottonmouths at one of the creeks on his ranch. I asked for a .410 but was told it was marksmanship training.

Anti-venom is not cheap!

I work in the hospital lab and was working that night. Wondered to ER to be nosey. I think my friend who was doctoring that night said it was like $6-8,000 per dose, or somewhere there about!

Cottonmouths look spooky as hell when they swim, how they are more on top of the water than in it. Saw one coil up in the middle of the lake once and hold his head up & flatten his neck at me!