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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Big Frank on November 05, 2020, 01:29:57 AM
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I saw on popularmechanics.com that this picture is going viral on Twitter. Can you spot the snake? It's a small snake and even when the area was pointed out I had to zoom in a couple times to see it.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a34383855/viral-snake-in-leaves-photo/
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I still don't see it after they circled it.
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I hate copperheads for just those reasons. Deadly and masters of camouflage on a leaf background. I had to go find the picture of it circled.
Now I see it.
Again I hate those things....I had one 3-4 feet in front of me once that alerted me by swishing it's tale. I was 12-14 and squirrel hunting with my dad. After 5 minutes or so I could not see it and my dad came over and found it and killed it with a stick. Thank goodness they will shake their tail like a rattlesnake.
They are very, very hard to find on dead leaves. This picture is evidence of that.
We have killed 3 of them this year. One off the back steps.
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Now I see it. I was looking in the bottom left circle, not in the middle.
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Took about 10 seconds, but it was not hard to find.
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Took a 1/2 hour and 2 websites, but I finally found the little SOB. ;D
Stuff like that is why I stay in NH.
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When I was stationed at Ft. Polk I found out Louisiana is one of the few states to have all 4 types of venomous snakes found in the U.S., rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, and coral snakes. Oh, joy! Plus they have scorpions, lots of scorpions. One time these 2 guys were knocking down the grass and bushes with their entrenching tools to clear a spot for their pup tent when scorpions came boiling out of the ground like a volcano erupting. They hit them with their E-tools and stomped on them, and when they were all done they snapped together their shelter halves and set up their tent... with no bottom... over the scorpion nest??? ??? See you in the morning, I'll be on top of the deuce and a half. And don't forget to shake your boots out real good before you put them on. I saw bugs down there the likes of which I've never seen before nor since, and don't want to. During the great cricket invasion they covered the side of the mess hall so bad the building looked brown instead of light tan brick. And when they died they were thousands of crickets everywhere and you couldn't take a step without hearing 10-15 of them crunch under your boot. I'm sure I've mentioned it before. Their motto could be, "The nightmare state." When I die I know I'm going to heaven because I've already been to Louisiana.
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Why go to a 3rd world shithole when we have La right here in the US ? ;D
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;D Where else could you train for the horrors of Vietnam without leaving North America?
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Why go to a 3rd world shithole when we have La right here in the US ? ;D
I wish someone had told my commander that, before he before he sent me to visit every stinkin' place in the western Pacfic.
I never worried about bugs because most of the places I stayed had a resident iguana in each room for pest control.
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I wish I had an iguana to eat the cricket that was swimming back and forth in the channel under the wall driving me crazy at night. If my room in the barracks wasn't next to the leaky water fountain I wouldn't have had a problem but stuff happens. One day I saw where one of the crickets was hiding in the space under the wall. So I got out my disposable lighter and can of deodorant and used it like a flamethrower, sweeping the area for several seconds. I must have used half a can of deodorant, the majority of which is alcohol, almost certainly propelled by butane and/or isobutane. From then on I referred to the combination of a butane lighter and can of deodorant as a "cricket lighter" no matter what brand the lighter was. It wasn't the only crispy critter to receive that treatment. My roommate called in napalm strikes and I delivered. ;)