Speaking of snakes

[Maggot]

We are lucky in the USA. We've got pretty mild venomous snakes. Check the quiz for the rest of the world. The King Cobra for instance can reach 20 feet long and raise 40% of its body off the ground to strike. That means a big one is striking down at you.

https://play.howstuffworks.com/quiz...6R&parent_source=gemini&utm_source=share-copy

 

[Maser]

I'm pretty sure we got those slithering around the US as well. Irresponsible pet owners illegally get ahold of exotic animals for pets and then when they get too big, they just release them into parks or forests.

 

[MK20]

The Congressman Snake (slitherius politicianus) can stay in office up to 40 years and can generate 100 times it’s body weight in tyrannical legislation. It kills its prey by slowly strangling the life out of it with liberty killing regulations.
It is truly a terrifying predator despite its often corpulent camouflage appearance.

 

[Snipe260]

A cobra once bit army jerry! After 5 days of agonizing pain, the cobra died!

 

[Spblademaker]

....but only after AJ made him buy more ammo.

 

[earthtrekker1775]

The only venemous snake that matters is the one that bites you. Rattlesnakes are plenty nasty. http://www.rattlesnakebite.org/rattlesnakepics-htm/

 

[Zeroit]

They taste like chicken. Or beef or snake all good I prefer my cooked not raw. Whatever you do don't crockpot them too long they have a propensity to disenergrate.

 

[Maggot]

The only venemous snake that matters is the one that bites you. Rattlesnakes are plenty nasty. http://www.rattlesnakebite.org/rattlesnakepics-htm/

Fuck, that really made me stop and think back to how many places I used to put my hands when tearing up old stone slave walls.

Still, I heard a story not long ago of a kid touring in Africa who got bit by a Green Mamba and was dead in 15 minutes.

 

[MK20]

The mamba kills by a neurotoxin venom. If you have a good buddy who will breathe for you when you stop breathing after a couple minutes, you can actually make it just fine with no advanced treatment.
I had the privilege to play in an area that had black mambas, green mambas, gaboon vipers, boomslings, puff adders, cobras, spitting cobras, among a bunch of others. We had no antivenin or advanced medical treatment for that type of thing so we learned how to deal with the bites in different ways.

 

[earthtrekker1775]

Mambas are evil bastards. Green mambas will drop out of trees to kill you, black mambas will chase you down and move faster than a man can run on uneven terrain, then rear up and bite you in the face.

 

[Maggot]

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The mamba kills by a neurotoxin venom. If you have a good buddy who will breathe for you when you stop breathing after a couple minutes, you can actually make it just fine with no advanced treatment.
I had the privilege to play in an area that had black mambas, green mambas, gaboon vipers, boomslings, puff adders, cobras, spitting cobras, among a bunch of others. We had no antivenin or advanced medical treatment for that type of thing so we learned how to deal with the bites in different ways.

So you grew up in central Africa?

The one that got me was the spitting cpbra. I always imagined a little steam like from a syringe. Nope.

 

[Maggot]

I got 80%.

Most of my misses were amongst what kind of cobra.

 

[MK20]

Didn’t grow up there but I did spend some time in the greater centafricaine area

 

[12Bravo]

I scored 78%. Got all the North American species correct.

 

[earthtrekker1775]

I got an 84%.

 

[acudaowner]

kitty

 

[Greg Langelius *]

OZ.

Taipan, three varieties.

'Most poisonous' varies by source. Inland Taipan, toxicity estimated as 10x-100x that of the King Cobra. Basically toxic enough that one bite contains enough death to kill between a movie theater's and a football stadium's worth of humans. Give or take...

Western Brown Snake recently renamed the Western Taipan.

 

[Maser]

Them Aussies have like the most fucked up animals on the planet! Most poisonous snakes, spiders, jellyfish.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

That picture reminds me that the Subcontinental snake charmers de-fang their snakes.

Bets?

Greg

 

[Maser]

 

[Maggot]

Jesus wept.

 

[brianf]

Mambas are evil bastards. Green mambas will drop out of trees to kill you, black mambas will chase you down and move faster than a man can run on uneven terrain, then rear up and bite you in the face.

That's some fucked up shit right there!

 

[clcustom1911]

The only venemous snake that matters is the one that bites you. Rattlesnakes are plenty TASTY!!

Fixed it for you ?

 

[clcustom1911]

Jesus wept.

No shit.

 

[Barneybdb]

Only got a couple wrong, sadly they were Australian but many of our snakes have a very similar appearance.

 

[earthtrekker1775]

Fixed it for you ?

Yes, they are delicious.

 

[Maser]

Fun fact. In ancient Egyptian times, it was considered noble to be executed by an asp.

 

[MK20]

Puff adder is actually quite tasty as well.

 

[earthtrekker1775]

Puff adder is actually quite tasty as well.

No kidding? I haven't had a chance to eat venomous snakes internationally. I will keep that in mind.

 

[Rust]

Consider the Russell's Viper the venom of which among other things causes the blood to coagulate in the body, basically turning ones blood into jello.

 

[Barneybdb]

 

[Liberator52]

I calm em with a 12 ga. before I pick em up . I would do that kid's parents that way too.

 

[Spblademaker]

That’s hot!

 

[shootist2004]

scored 64. got real hard towards the end.............

 

[Maggot]

scored 64. got real hard towards the end.............

Dang, mine's hard the whole way down.

 

[Quarter Horse]

76

 

[Redmanss]

I scored 78%. Got all the North American species correct.

Same here, too many variations of cobras and mambas. I just shoot them all.

Wish it had the Habu on there as I can pick it out of a 20 snake lineup easy, I killed at least a couple dozen in Okinawa on patrol. Point man left his BFA off his M16 for a reason. At least they're tasty in a sake, although expensive as fuck.

 

[earthtrekker1775]

Same here, too many variations of cobras and mambas. I just shoot them all.

Wish it had the Habu on there as I can pick it out of a 20 snake lineup easy, I killed at least a couple dozen in Okinawa on patrol. Point man left his BFA off his M16 for a reason. At least they're tasty in a sake, although expensive as fuck.

Mmmm, habu sake! Been a few years.

 

[18Echo]

88%, I got 4 wrong

 

[Waorani]

Second death in recent years from copperhead in AL that I'm aware of.

Alabama man dies 3 days after copperhead snake bite at Smith Lake

Chum Baker, 52, would go way out of his way to help everybody. “He was loved. It’s just unbelievable,’’ Baker's brother said.

www.al.com

 

[EddieNFL]

Same here, too many variations of cobras and mambas. I just shoot them all.

Wish it had the Habu on there as I can pick it out of a 20 snake lineup easy, I killed at least a couple dozen in Okinawa on patrol. Point man left his BFA off his M16 for a reason. At least they're tasty in a sake, although expensive as fuck.

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