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Originally Posted by KFC911

Yep ... those habitats and "in the woods" have 'em ... fairly rare tho'. Nolikey!

The first one that I saw I sort of stepped on. We hadn't been in the house long, a few months, and the grass wasn't super tall but needed to be mowed. I was walking to the detached garage, and about a split second before my foot hit the ground, I noticed it coiled up on the ground practically under my foot. I was lucky that my foot wasn't "ON" the snake, but just grazed it. I felt that my sole had slide down the side. I walked about 3-4 more steps and then spun around and froze. It registered what had just happened and my brain sounded the alarm, but I wasn't bitten and the snake was still sitting there not moving. I think I was really lucky that it was early spring and we'd just had a cold rain. He sat there for an hour. I ended up fashioning a hook out of some rebar that I found and relocated him to the other side of the fence.



He probably would have fit into the palm of my hand with my fingers outstretched with room to spare coiled up like that.

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