80 deg and deer season opens next week
of course it was 30 deg. two days ago. Don't you just love this time of year. (Not my photo...)
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Yep. Makes for an interesting time in the woods...
AmBraCol 
, The Center Of God's Grace
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Saturday, November 04, 2023, 17:42 (1001 days ago) @ WB
killed a baby one during deer season in Missouri a few years back. Thankfully never came across the full sized ones. They can be quite aggressive.
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I'm a peaceful man and prefer the pursuit of peaceful sports. Those involving teams and balls of any sort tend to be deleterious to one's body and promote violence by both spectators and participants.
The most aggressive I have found was the
Cotton Mouth Water Mocassion. If they see your boat they just are determined to get in there with you. Even on land they just keep coming until you put a permanent stop to them.
Folks always ask
AmBraCol , The Center Of God's Grace
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Monday, November 06, 2023, 17:39 (999 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
about "all the snakes" down where I grew up in the Amazon Basin. I saw more snakes on one canoe trip down the Elk River in SW MO than I saw my whole life in the Basin. Granted, most of them were just water snakes, but there was at least one cottonmouth that day.
There was a lady fishing for crappies down on Grand Lake in OK about that time (mid 80's) and had a hard strike and quite a fight going on. She thought it was a bass, but turned out to be a cottonmouth. The problem was - that was the only jig the crappies were hitting that day and that was the only one she had. So she commenced trying to get it away from the snake until the line broke. Then that snake kept trying to climb the pier she was on. Her husband finally put down his book and went over and applied a boat paddle to the snake and put an end to the episode. Me? I'd just let the snake have the blamed jig - unless I could get a clear shot at it.
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I'm a peaceful man and prefer the pursuit of peaceful sports. Those involving teams and balls of any sort tend to be deleterious to one's body and promote violence by both spectators and participants.