Snakes and boots?

[Guest GunTroll]

You guys ever see many snakes while your out hunting? The venomous kind that is. While I was stationed at Ft. Stewart GA I never saw any but often knew they were there. Had to be. It was swampy and perfect habitat for some creepy crawlers. Why I ask is I'm looking to get some warmer weather hunting boots for my upcoming move to your state. My CO cold weather boots will probably burn my feet up in your weather. I'm thinking of your fall deer and spring for turkey hunting. Would you recommend me getting a snake boot? Or a waste of time? I do watch were I step and hardly ever just stumble around in the woods unaware of my surroundings. Are snake boots worth it? Guess it would be if a snake were to strike and not puncture flesh. What say you?? Do you have many venomous snakes in middle TN?

Thanks

GT

[Guest Jcochran88]

We have venomous snakes. Most wide spread would be the copperhead, we also have cotton mouths and rattle snakes. I personaly don't where snake boots, I have a pair but they just weigh so much I find it easier to not wear them. But if I got bit then I would probably start wearing them, if I live after being bitten.

[strickj]

Do you have many venomous snakes in middle TN

If it bites, its in TN

[Guest ScottD]

When we lived in GA we were close enough to hear the tanks firing. It was near the base that I came upon a timber rattler hanging out in the pallet beneath my tent @ boy scout camp. They were there, you just didn't see them.

[Guest GunTroll]

While I was stationed at Ft. Stewart GA I never saw any but often knew they were there. Had to be. It was swampy and perfect habitat for some creepy crawlers

Thanks I covered that I thought.

[Oh Shoot]

...we also have cotton mouths ...

Not in middle TN, we don't.

(where he's asking about)

- OS

[ShaunM]

We have cotton mouths in Middle Tn and west TN I know for sure.

[Oh Shoot]

We have cotton mouths in Middle Tn and west TN I know for sure.

West TN, yes...

Middle TN? Show me a documented case.

- OS

[Guest Jcochran88]

West TN, yes...

Middle TN? Show me a documented case.

- OS

not documented but I have seen them in Yellow Creek while fishing.

[Guest SUNTZU]

Here's a .pdf brochure of cottonmouths in TN. I don't know where the confirmed distribution map came on the right hand side of the brochure, but it says that cottonmouths are not generally in the middle part of the state.

http://www.tennsnakes.org/Cottonmouth%20Brochure.pdf

[ShaunM]

A bunch of fisherman who fish Percy Priest said they had to close part of the lake due to cotton mouths. I have personally seen them on Percy Priest lake and I know what they look like and I didn't mistake it for another snake.

[Oh Shoot]

A bunch of fisherman who fish Percy Priest said they had to close part of the lake due to cotton mouths. I have personally seen them on Percy Priest lake and I know what they look like and I didn't mistake it for another snake.

We have Yetis over here. I can't document it, but I've seen them.

- OS

[ShaunM]

Well I have never seen a Yeti but I have personally seen a cottonmouth in Percy Priest and everyone knows that cottonmouths are real animals that has been documented. You are also comparing fact with fiction, Yeti being fiction and cottonmouth being fact.

Edited July 7, 2009 by Hunting101

[ShaunM]

As far as how far into Middle TN and east I don't know, just telling you what I have seen.

[Oh Shoot]

Well I have never seen a Yeti but I have personally seen a cottonmouth in Percy Priest and everyone knows that cottonmouths are real animals that has been documented. You are also comparing fact with fiction, Yeti being fiction and cottonmouth being fact.

Just as likely to see a Yeti in East TN as a cottonmouth in Percy Priest Lake.

- OS

[ShaunM]

Just as likely to see a Yeti in East TN as a cottonmouth in Percy Priest Lake.

- OS

Well I have see a cottonmouth in Percy Priest.

Edited July 7, 2009 by Hunting101

[Guest bkelm18]

Oh here we go again....

[ShaunM]

Oh here we go again....

We are just simply having a conversation on cottonmouths.

Edited July 7, 2009 by Hunting101

[Guest mikedwood]

Oh here we go again....

Pass the popcorn please

[ShaunM]

Lets all stay on topic.

Edited July 7, 2009 by Hunting101

[Ghooge2008]

some say we dont have feral pigs in middle tennessee either...I have personally seen a whole herd of the crazy, ugly, hard to hit targets in Castailian springs! Me and my brother stomped through rocky and wooded area's in carthage(smith county) where there are alot of venomus snakes and never saw one or even heard a rattle, I think they usually hear you coming around here! I have always dreaded seeing one and luckily havent yet even in collinwood where we now go to hunt. their there but I think if your careful/aware/ bumbeling and loud going through the woods like we do you should be fine.

[ShaunM]

I think as development gets bigger species of animals will migrate elsewhere. Look at armadillos people thought I was crazy here in Murfreesboro when I told them I had been seeing them in Perry County. One day one of the none believers came up to me and told me he had seen one dead out on Hwy 96 in Murfreesboro.

P.S

And OhShoot I do believe in Yetis but we call them bigfoot in west TN

[ShaunM]

O.K to get back on topic as long as you are carefull you shouldn't need to worry about snakes or buying snake boots.

[Guest logicprevails]

For Spring Turkey or deer in early Fall, I usually wear some knee-highs like Muck Boots. I've seen a buttload of snakes out in my life, but hardly ever a copperhead. I've actually come in contact with more rattlers when out and about up on the plateau around Jamestown than I have copperheads in middle TN. They usually move on along if you nudge 'em gently with a stick. As far as copperheads, I don't get down to southern middle TN much at all, but I've actualy seen them as far east as a swampy area at the conflux of the Red River and Sulfur Fork Creek at Port Royal (eastern border of Montgomery County). They tend to grow more prominent as you move west in the state. My dad had seen some years ago in the swamp behind the old Union Carbide plant in Montgomery County on the KY border.

[Guest GunTroll]

Alright. Thanks guys. Sort of lost topic in the middle there but came around. I have never worn snake boots. I do like my LaCrosse's though. For mud ,rain, etc. Just wondering about the snake issues you guys may or may not have there in middle TN area.