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Offline Buckwheat

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Snake hunting
« on: April 03, 2015, 09:08:32 PM »
How many of you guys snake hunt. I am going to try again this year for a yellow Rattlesnake. It gets harder every year for me to walk far so I figure I better get it done. Any body else interested in hunting let me know. I have a camp in Clinton county we can hunt out of if need be.
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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2015, 09:43:24 PM »
You can come up my way and thin them out I come across more than I care to every year

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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2015, 09:46:35 PM »
We're is up your way?
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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2015, 10:31:17 PM »
Cambria county Iv spent my whole life running around in the laurel mountains but the last ten years it seems like there everywhere I spend a lot of time mountain biking see most of them laying around on the old logging roads and power lines

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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2015, 10:46:00 PM »
m59jy
You are hitting all the correct places to see snakes. You are biking were they like to sun them self. Both those type places is were snake hunters look. You may be seeing most of the snakes in the area.
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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2015, 10:58:30 PM »
My son and I came across 20 plus last spring and early summer had a few close calls you come up on them pretty fast on a bike when there stretched out across the road I had some great pics on my old phone one was of a yellow rattlesnake stretched out the whole length of the logging road and as big a round as a softball biggest one I ever saw it usually gets to the point where I have to stop riding and hiking up there cause there just everywhere

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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2015, 11:55:07 PM »
I might have to check that out. If you can send me some map locations so I can check them out. I would really like to find a big yellow one. Any help you can give me would be realy nice and would be appreciated.
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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2015, 06:50:01 PM »
No problem I could spend a few days on the mountain showing you around I'll send you some info next week when I'm back to work if you want throw ur rifle in hunt some yotes along the way

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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2015, 07:53:49 PM »
Great, that sounds like a good start for snakes. I will bring a gun for coyotes.
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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2015, 08:35:53 PM »
Sent you a email with a location that's where Iv seen a good concentration of yellow phase snakes but that whole area is loaded most of the snow is gone up there now so I'll start biking any day now I'll keep you posted on when I start seeing them out and about

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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2015, 05:44:12 AM »
Buckwheat if you want to do a closer hunt,you might try the top of the Tuscarora Mtn. off rt 74 north of Ickesburg. Some of this is SGL,there is parking,go East toward the Pwr. line..should be buzzing shortly...I saw a yellow phase there. Also, West of Miffintown in the State Forest where the road runs along Licking Creek, I have seen them there while trout fishing and my father in law took a large one there some years back. Some of the places I fish for trout my wife won't get out of the car..hahaha..I will watch and if I see one I will contact you asap...When's the season? I don't hunt them,I just leave them be and observe....... 8)

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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2015, 08:19:51 AM »
Jasper
Thanks,  I might get to go a couple of places and look around. Kind of small adventures for me. The season is June 13 to July 31
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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2015, 03:26:40 PM »
Buchwheat.. You always send me things in boxes... I will put one in the box and send it to you via U. S. Mail... is it ok if it's just a Copperhead? 
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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2015, 08:57:49 PM »
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The postal service might question you some. In a straight jacket. LOL
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Re: Snake hunting
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2015, 10:04:09 PM »
Jasper & m59jy
Snake season started Saturday if you see any or want to get together I like to find a nice yellow phase. I went Saturday and only found one rattler and a black racer.
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