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Belt Fed said:
Just caught another rat snake. Caught one this morning. I put em in the wood pile.
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Has anyone heard of what we called a spread'n anter (SP)? I got shipped off to an Uncle's cotton farm almost every summer. These snakes were very common while picking cotton. Their markings kinda looked a rattler, They would flatten their heads, hiss and would bite you if you were not careful.
 
rcurtner said:
Has anyone heard of what we called a spread'n anter (SP)? I got shipped off to an Uncle's cotton farm almost every summer. These snakes were very common while picking cotton. Their markings kinda looked a rattler, They would flatten their heads, hiss and would bite you if you were not careful.
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I was just telling my young nephew a few days ago about them and how we would catch them as kids. I kept telling him they were called 'Hog nosed' snakes and would spread their heads almost like a cobra then roll over on their backs and play dead. I told him too they had another more common name but for the life of me could not remember what it was ... and here it is right in front of me today ... 'Spreading Adder' (sp), southerners pronounced it 'Spreddin'adder'.

Once when a kid, maybe 10-12, I caught one of htese about 12-14" long and put him in a small cage with door screen on the top so you could look right down onto the snake. I put the cage in a 'walk thru' between the utility room and the side of the house where we lived. One afternoon daddy was cutting through the 'walk thru' and saw the box with the snake in it. But I had covered the top of the box with something, a piece of cardboard IIRC so you couldn't see the snake. Well when daddy moved the cardboard, there staring right back at him was this snake ... and suffice it to say he didnt take well to snakes.

He jumped back and up so hard he hit the house electric meter with the back of his head so hard it broke the base clamp on the meter and broke skin on his head. I was scared to death he was going to kill me for scaring him with the snake knowing how scared of them he was, but he calmly called me over to him, looked me dead in the eye and said with as straight a face as I'd ever seen him ... "son, I'd probably beat your ass half to death right now, except I'm really, really mad, and if I did that you wouldn't be able to get that G-damned snake away from this house. You need to be smart and take advantage of my temporary insanity and get rid of that damned snake." Miss ya' dad!!!
 
jumpinjoe said:
I was just telling my young nephew a few days ago about them and how we would catch them as kids. I kept telling him they were called 'Hog nosed' snakes and would spread their heads almost like a cobra then roll over on their backs and play dead. I told him too they had another more common name but for the life of me could not remember what it was ... and here it is right in front of me today ... 'Spreading Adder' (sp), southerners pronounced it 'Spreddin'adder'.

Once when a kid, maybe 10-12, I caught one of htese about 12-14" long and put him in a small cage with door screen on the top so you could look right down onto the snake. I put the cage in a 'walk thru' between the utility room and the side of the house where we lived. One afternoon daddy was cutting through the 'walk thru' and saw the box with the snake in it. But I had covered the top of the box with something, a piece of cardboard IIRC so you couldn't see the snake. Well when daddy moved the cardboard, there staring right back at him was this snake ... and suffice it to say he didnt take well to snakes.

He jumped back and up so hard he hit the house electric meter with the back of his head so hard it broke the base clamp on the meter and broke skin on his head. I was scared to death he was going to kill me for scaring him with the snake knowing how scared of them he was, but he calmly called me over to him, looked me dead in the eye and said with as straight a face as I'd ever seen him ... "son, I'd probably beat your ass half to death right now, except I'm really, really mad, and if I did that you wouldn't be able to get that G-damned snake away from this house. You need to be smart and take advantage of my temporary insanity and get rid of damned that snake." Miss ya' dad!!!
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Pretty sure it wasn't funny at the time. Right now it's hirlarious. Thanks for sharing the story.
 
Hi,

I cleaned all my dirty filthy guns and now I'm enjoying a cold one while watching a western.

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Cleaned the 1911, XD45, XD9, XDM, and VP9.

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
Drying off. The lady whose service I just replaced had to take a day off work because our scheduling department is staffed with rank amateurs. We don’t ordinarily work in the rain but I wasn’t going to let this lady have to take another day off work. So here I am soaked to the bone. They ordinarily won’t let me work over if it’s raining either but I got news for em. The world could flood and my ass is staying until 5:00 tonight. Bastards.
 
Bassbob said:
Drying off. The lady whose service I just replaced had to take a day off work because our scheduling department is staffed with rank amateurs. We don’t ordinarily work in the rain but I wasn’t going to let this lady have to take another day off work. So here I am soaked to the bone. They ordinarily won’t let me work over if it’s raining either but I got news for em. The world could flood and my ass is staying until 5:00 tonight. Bastards.
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You rock!
 
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