Good shot! Can we at least see a picture of the Markman? :-)
It's easy to walk by a snake and not even know you did..
I 've killed several poisonous snakes and I know it's not as easy as people think. The chance that you might get beaten is always on your mind but all your senses seem to function at the fullest (and the hair standing up on your back too) when encountering one of them and it's like survival instinct kicking in, especially when my younger sister about 8yrs old at the time, almost go bit by one.. I had watched her get bit by a non-poisonous (which we didn't now at the time) garden/garter snake and my dad took her to the hospital when she was about 4, so I was all over that copperhead with a vengance the 2nd time around. That was my first one. I had made it my mission after that to seek them out and destroy them because my sister was bit so I had developed a hatred for them. Luckily that only lasted about 1 summer. I was only 13-14yrs old at the time, young & stupid. But guess what, if you go looking for them, they are not that hard to find. You 'll be surprised how close to your home copperheads or other venomous snakes can be.. The ones I killed were with a long stick. You must have a strong one to overturn large rocks and logs. The closest one was about 200yds from my parents house in the woods near a lake. For me at the time, it was too close for comfort. Copperheads are plentiful along the Hudson Valley where I live so I 'm always very cautious when I walk through the woods. We also have timber rattlesnakes here which I heard are on the endangered species, so if anyone is going to run into one, it's probably my sister! :-)
