coachg
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Son got this one with the bush hog at his house . One got away . 42 inch
Big copperhead
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Ky hills
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Made one a good one anyways.
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coachg
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Best kind !
kenny thomas
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42" is a very big one. Do you see them often?
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coachg
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He lives close to a gorge with a creek running through it so yes ! He has probably killed 7-8 copperheads to every 1 rattlesnake. We don’t tell his wife . Shh
kenny thomas
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Shew, we only seem to have them or the rattlesnakes in the mountains, not here in the hills. Im sure glad.
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coachg
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For some reason it won't let me post the other picture of it
TexasJerseyMilker
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only 0.01% of copperhead bites are fatal https://www.reptileknowledge.com/reptile-pedia/how-many-people-survive-a-copperhead-bite
"Many people who get bitten by copperhead snakes assume they need antivenom to treat the bite, but that's not always the case, doctors say. In fact, Dr. Michael Beuhler, NC Poison Control's medical director, says antivenom is only sometimes necessary."
Plus you will go into shock when you recieve the bill.
"Many people who get bitten by copperhead snakes assume they need antivenom to treat the bite, but that's not always the case, doctors say. In fact, Dr. Michael Beuhler, NC Poison Control's medical director, says antivenom is only sometimes necessary."
Plus you will go into shock when you recieve the bill.
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greybeard
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In May of 2010, I was bitten on my left foot by one. It either only had one fang or the other fang slipped between my toes. I had walked out to my truck in my sock feet just after dark to roll the windows up before a storm and Wham..felt like someone had shot a nail from a nail gun in my foot. I knew immediately what it was and thought "Oh crap, what a thing to happen at this age!"
1. It hurt like the dickens when it happened. Had lots of injuries in my life but that was the most sudden sharpest pain I could remember & the effects were immediate. Light headedness, nausea...
2. Of course, it scared my wife that was sitting 20 yards away on the front porch 1/2 to death & she insisted I go to the ER, immediately (the 8 mile drive with her behind the wheel, running every stop sign and redlight was almost as bad as the bite) and they did keep me overnight, gave me fluids and antibiotics as well as a tetanus shot. We hadn't gone 1/2 mile and I realized better get my sock off soon or it would have to be cut off due to the swelling.
They explained that anti-venom is only used for copperheads in the event it's a very small child or someone that has been bitten in the neck or close to the heart.
This photo was taken in the ER, less than 20 minutes after it happened. Within 2 days, my leg was swollen to my lower thigh and most of it turned black. Other than that, no problems. (No, I did not kill the snake but saw it in the light from the front porch as it slithered off and I had seen plenty of them in years previous.) Copperheads and coral snakes are the only venomous serpents I had ever seen around the house. Timber rattlers are reputed to be common there but I never saw one. & of course, moccasins down by the ponds.
The swelling never really went back down in that foot and my left shoe/boot fits tighter than my right one and to make matters worse, when I had my quad bypass in 2015, that's the calf they pulled the vein from for the grafts. That left calf and foot has poor circulation now.
(yes I know I have ugly feet...ain't running no beauty contest here)
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That is a big copperhead. A work friend of mine got bite by one that had crawled on his computer printer in the basement of his house. When he reached to get the paper off it nailed him. He had swelling in his hand, and he said painful when it bite, but made it without other complications.
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coachg
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Friend killed this one the same day . Measured 45 in . We kidded him he stretched his out ! 
TexasJerseyMilker
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Where I lived in the woods in Bastrop county Texas there were copperheads, Timber rattlers, cotton mouths and coral snakes. I like snakes, they are part of the balance of nature but I did not want them near the house because of my dogs. So I would get a stick and hold them down right behind the head so they could not bite me and I would drop them in a 5 gallon bucket, put a lid and give them "A ride out of town" to some area there were no houses or people. Took lots of snakes away like that. Then one day I was out behind the cabin and saw my dog messing with something on the ground, it was a coral snake.
I got a stick but it was a hot day and the snake was so hyper I could not hold it down so I did a stupid thing- I tailed it. Most snakes can not get to you tail them that way but this one climbed itself fast as lighting and tagged me on the thumb. I started to hurt like my arm was in a fire. Since I was and am a nurse I did not want to go to the hospital where I worked because the staff would know what an idiot I was.
My boyfriend, a veterinarian came over and I asked him does he know CPR and he said yes, on a dog. So, I toughed it out for about 24 hours then the pain went away and I was fine.
I got a stick but it was a hot day and the snake was so hyper I could not hold it down so I did a stupid thing- I tailed it. Most snakes can not get to you tail them that way but this one climbed itself fast as lighting and tagged me on the thumb. I started to hurt like my arm was in a fire. Since I was and am a nurse I did not want to go to the hospital where I worked because the staff would know what an idiot I was.
My boyfriend, a veterinarian came over and I asked him does he know CPR and he said yes, on a dog. So, I toughed it out for about 24 hours then the pain went away and I was fine.
