Copperhead!!

[mwezell]

This is a crazy year indeed. I just killed a copperhead, about 2-1/2 ft long in the road at 7:00 am. This is October 19th isn't it? Isn't this about time we should have frost on the ground in the early morning?
Instead we have severe weather and snakes out. Be careful out there with these things still moving this weekend.---Mike

[JP]

I've run into them before this time of year...they were a little slow and "sleepy" obviously, but nonetheless caused me to need new underwear. :eek:

[Snareman2]

This is a crazy year indeed. I just killed a copperhead, about 2-1/2 ft long in the road at 7:00 am. This is October 19th isn't it? Isn't this about time we should have frost on the ground in the early morning?
Instead we have severe weather and snakes out. Be careful out there with these things still moving this weekend.---Mike

Afew years ago, I saw two on the road on Halloween. The snakes were in two different places on two different roads. I got out of my truck to get a closer look, they were copperheads alright, I guess coming out on the road at night for the warmth of the asphalt.

[barney]

Global warming????

[drakeshooter]

I killed a copperhead on New Years Day 20 years ago.

[Highbow]

2 years ago I found one laying on my tree stand platform one morning as I climbed up to bow hunt. Not a thing I want to happen again.

[WhiteRubi]

2 years ago I found one laying on my tree stand platform one morning as I climbed up to bow hunt. Not a thing I want to happen again.


I'm guessing at that point the scent free shower and ScentLok was null and void. :D

[wolverine82]

Fortunately I have never seen any poisonous snakes while hunting.

[GunCat]

I'm guessing at that point the scent free shower and ScentLok was null and void. :D

:D HA :D - Funniest thing I've read in a long time.

(and sure woulda' been true if I was climbing that stand) :eek:

[trust me]

A guy went by me on Chimney Rock trail at RRG hopping on one leg. He saw a buddy and told him, "Can't talk now. Snakebit." I guess a copperhead got him.

[Snareman2]

A guy went by me on Chimney Rock trail at RRG hopping on one leg. He saw a buddy and told him, "Can't talk now. Snakebit." I guess a copperhead got him.

I would not advise, getting your heart rate up. I think you're supposed to stay calm and keep the wound elevated. Maybe restrict the movement some and get help ASAP.

[MsgMills]

Doesn't a copperhead's venom act like a rattlesnake's. It basically rots the surrounding tissue where the bite occurred and can cause amputation if not treated in time?

[trust me]

I would not advise, getting your heart rate up. I think you're supposed to stay calm and keep the wound elevated. Maybe restrict the movement some and get help ASAP.

In this case, i think the guy was correct. He was literally 20 miles from an ambulance and 40 miles from a hospital, and if he'd just laid down and called for help, assuming he had good cell service, he was still an hour or more from a hospital. If he hopped a couple hundred yards to the truck and left immediately, he could get treatment much quicker.

I've read different theories on snakebite treatment. I understand that the venom is not really carried by the bloodstream, but stays localized in the tissue, so heartrate and activity isn't so much an issue. The copperhead bite victims that I've seen all had horrible swelling and rotting at the bite, and no complications elsewhere in the body, so I figure that goes along with the theory.

[drakeshooter]

I read somewhere that there hadn't been a death from a copperhead bite in something like 75+ years.

[piebald buster]

I read somewhere that there hadn't been a death from a copperhead bite in something like 75+ years.

I wouldn't want to break that record. :p

[drakeshooter]

I googled "copperhead deaths" and found this site. It has a lot of first-hand accounts of copperhead bites. Pretty interesting stuff:

http://www.venomousreptiles.org/articles/59