copperhead repellant?

Sounds like you have your share. I was on the Cumberland River (Jackson County) last week. I happened to ask about the varieties of snakes there. It seemed moccasins where the big deal. I didn't hear about copperheads there, but the terrain would be ideal for them.

If I can't avoid them, yes I would kill them if necessary.

Oren "My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."

Both will come at you. I encountered a copperhead as I crossed a stream and it came at me, scared hell out of me.

Oren "My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."

This is Turtle.

There is two repellants .

Moth balls and a shotgun. Mothballs does a better job.

TURTLE

Yep -- in fact, it's called "snake shot".

Gainesboro, nice little town. Yes, Jackson County has an abundance of copperheads and rattlers. It's also a hotspot for the brown recluse. If the snakes don't get ya, the spiders will. I'm an hour east of there, a few more mountains, a few more snakes.

Bob

Never had any luck with the mothballs. It's also difficult to harvest them. Need one person to hold the wings, another to use tweezers to pull them off. :-)

Bob

Never heard of any repellent that worked - many claims, but no scientific proof. Best bet is to get rid of food supply and shelter. Copperheads, along with other pit vipers, feed mainly on warm blooded animals - mainly rodents - so make sure you don't have anything in the area to attract rodents and you should find that you have fewer copperheads, and snakes in general.

Remove rock and brush piles to a location away from your yard to encourage any snakes that remain (and you do need some to keep pest populations in check) to stay away from the house.

When you've done the above, kill any poisonous snakes that endanger you, your family or pets. Do not kill snakes indiscriminately as some - like king snakes - will help to keep the poisonous ones in check.

Later, Mike (substitute strickland in the obvious location to reply directly)

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Thanks, and thanks to all. I learn something new every day.

And I wasn't making things up in thinking it would be hard to shoot a snake with a bullet.

Another question about guns and the movies.

In the movies sometimes, the hero is underwater and he gets his gun out and shoots someone. Once I even saw him shoot someone when the gun was still underwater.

Doesn't the barrel fill with water, and isn't it dangerous to shoot the gun when there is such an obstruction? Will the bullet get out of the barrel at all?

Even if the water is poured out, there will still be a thin layer or a few drops of water sticking to the inside of the barrel. Is there a problem shooting the gun until that evaporates? After all, there is not that much space between the bullet and the barrel.

They also show bullets "sparking" on various metals too. Movies have their own "reality distortion" that bears little resemblance to "real life." The fear of firearms is fed largely by the movie industries' depiction of guns and bullets as they wish they were rather than how they really are.

Not if you're Jed Clampett.

"Snake shot" been around for many years (50+), that I know of personally.

Ever heard of "rock salt" being placed into a shot gun shell (after pellets removed)? Farmers packed shells with rock salt to shoot people stealing their produce (non-lethal). It's said to burn like hell under the skin and is plucked out with tweezers, so I'm told... (rubbin' salt in the wound)

Oren "My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."

Rumor has it that black-powder pistol balls move slowly enough that rattlesnakes see the ball coming, and strike at it. I have no idea if that's true, but it makes a good story.

Won't make much difference to the shooter, because rumor has it that those snakes can 75 feet and swallow a man whole in 1/4 second. Wonder if the guy can pull the trigger before he is swallowed.

Maybe he can pull the trigger after he is swallowed, and make himself a way out.

Good point.

Remmember: Guns don't shoot people. Dick Cheney does.

If you can't get a mongoose, get a monkey and a goose.

Men In Black do it all the time.

be sure its a copper head. garder snakes are mistaken for copper heads.the garder has a allmost yellow gold stripe all the way down its back,copperhead doesnt. garders are very helpful in controlling mice and dont bite humans.im sure you could do a search. coppers are usually around water.lucas