Copperhead

[Lightning rod]

Was picking beans in the garden today. I reached to grab a hoe propped up on the fence only to spot a copperhead coiled on the fence inches from my hand. Freaked me out so bad I tore the soles off my boots getting out of their. After talking myself out of burning the whole garden down I got a shotgun and killed it. Still haven't worked up the nerve to go get the beans though

[Bus Driver]

Have done the same. The shotgun is just another useful tool.

[tmays]

Got bit on the ankle by one of them bad boys when I was six years old. Hated snakes for years after that happened. Killed every one I came across, poisonous or not. Now only the bad boys feel my wrath

[Stanton]

We have them around. Over the years, next door neighbor has run into two or three; I've never seen one at our place.

Just be aware that they're around and wear appropriate protection (boots, etc.) when you're in the garden. The shotgun is a useful tool as Bus Driver so aptly pointed out. Be careful.

[Lightning rod]

I'm such a chicken when it comes to snakes that I've adopted the mantra " if it don't walk, it dies" at my house. I don't get close enough to check colors. I put holes in all of them

[Eugene]

I use bird shot in a 22 caliber pistol.

[tmays]

I use bird shot in a 22 caliber pistol.

We call it snake shot

[Billy Fussell]

Folks in different parts of the country have different names for the same thing. Around here we call it rat shot. I use it in a 22 pistol. Works good.

Billy

[Bus Driver]

The .22 is #12 shot and of necessity, relatively few of them. Effective only at close range. Bird shot is typically #7 1/2 or 8 and effective at longer ranges, perhaps as much as 300 feet.

[Lightning rod]

I used 12 ga turkey shot cause I believe in overkill when it comes to copperheads