As a teenager my dad was hand fishing the banks of a creek one evening when a water moccasin bit him on the chin. He later had a rattler bite his hand while he was trying to move a cistern cover. Almost cost him his yearly elk hunt in Colorado. So I was raised to kill any snake I saw with the exception of the black snakes out in the barn.
In Eastern NC out near the Pungo Wildlife Reserve rattlers and king snakes are thick as thieves. Never did get used to being around them. Dont even get me started about the ones in Florida....lucky for me there weren't many on the island I lived on. But tubing down the rivers in north central florida was eye opening.
In Eastern NC out near the Pungo Wildlife Reserve rattlers and king snakes are thick as thieves. Never did get used to being around them. Dont even get me started about the ones in Florida....lucky for me there weren't many on the island I lived on. But tubing down the rivers in north central florida was eye opening.