Help me identify this snake.

http://forums.accuratereloadin...3411043/m/5901010211

I don't have any ID.

Kind of looks like a Texas Rat Snake

Look up genus-- Elaphe

Pretty common, killed a few in my moms chicken coupe when the chicks are little, or eating eggs

I'm not a herpetologist, so I very well could be wrong, just a edu. guess.

Ed

skb2706 says Bull snake, I think I'm going with that. I didn't think Bull snakes got as big as this one, but apparently they do. He's close to 5' and has been eating regularly!

Well Like I said, I could be wrong but That looks like a Rat snake, I have killed oh about 50!

Rat snake:


By coachsells at 2009-06-24

Bull Snake:

By coachsells at 2009-06-24

A bull snake tries to make out to be a viper for protection, by puffing up and hissing. And the coloration is very different than the Genus Elaphe

+2 Rat Snake

Clearly a diamond backed fence python.

Bull Snake. They can and often do reach 5 ft.

I'll go bull snake as well.

We have always called them chicken snakes or raters. I got up and close to one last week putting out alfalfa blocks on our deer lease.(quality protein the DAMN HOGS won't eat up) I was in some thick brush looking for a good shady spot to put the hay and stepped in the middle of one. It came around between my legs and I jumped up and screamed like a girl!!! I don't know who was scared the most. It hauled butt up the nearest cedar. I had to go sit in the truck for a while.

That could be a textbook picture for a rat-snake, which it clearly is.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Rat-Sn...-Tell-the-Difference

Yep, it's a snake.

His name is Fred and he lives in a 1980's ranch house with his wife and three children. He works for an insurance cmpany as an actuary and enjoys gardening and golf in his off time.

Texas Rat Snake

If it eats cats it is a good snake

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Originally posted by James Cardwell:
We have always called them chicken snakes or raters. I got up and close to one last week putting out alfalfa blocks on our deer lease.(quality protein the DAMN HOGS won't eat up) I was in some thick brush looking for a good shady spot to put the hay and stepped in the middle of one. It came around between my legs and I jumped up and screamed like a girl!!! I don't know who was scared the most. It hauled butt up the nearest cedar. I had to go sit in the truck for a while.

Yeah they get testy when you step on 'em. Pretty benign otherwise.

Gets your attention though don't it??

Could be a Texas Rattle-headed-copper-moccasin. The northern variety I think.

DuggaBoye, The ranch we hunt on is covered with rattlesnakes. We kill a dozen or so a year for dove season til the first frost. So I was being very careful walking in the tall grass. I got into a cedar thicket and started looking for a good spot to put the alfala down when I stepped on it. Damn, Just thinking about it gives me the willies. My wife and I were checking the blinds the weekend before the rifle season opened up last season and came across a 4 ft rattler as big around as my leg. I only had garden hoe with me, but I got him. Had 12 rattlers. The owner has some boys working clearing some brush and they have already killed 7 this summer. JC

James,
Those numbers make you more wary when your out.

Got hit on my Chippewa Snake boot several years back while Quail hunting.

4+ footer, hit like a hammer on the left side of the boot toe, certainly not a lovepat, lucky for me he had to strike at a low angle from under an obstruction, and I had not yet reached down for the bird.

Still a very vivid memory.

Brain,
Don't you mean a CopperheadedRattleMoccasin