My buddy killed this snake Saturday in Arkansas(just south of Ouachita NF). He was walking to the stand around 3pm and he said he never saw the snake until it struck at him. Luckily it was to short on the strike and missed him. He said he jumped back and shot it, and hurried on to his stand. He didn't take a picture of it at that moment. He texted me and said I just shot a snake and probably ruined his hunt. He didn't know for sure but thought it might have been a rat snake.
He sat in the same stand Sunday morning and went back and found the snake after the hunt and took the picture. When I saw the picture I thought it looked like a cottonmouth but wasn't positive. When I said that to him he said he remembered seeing white when the snake struck at him. He didn't examine the snakes mouth or his ***
when he took the picture because he was still under the impression it was a rat snake.
He sat in the same stand Sunday morning and went back and found the snake after the hunt and took the picture. When I saw the picture I thought it looked like a cottonmouth but wasn't positive. When I said that to him he said he remembered seeing white when the snake struck at him. He didn't examine the snakes mouth or his ***
when he took the picture because he was still under the impression it was a rat snake.
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