Author Topic: Cotton mouth Moccasins (Read 11095 times)

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #30 on:** July 13, 2009, 07:14:47 AM »

Small ones same as above or I would pull the meat off and cook like chineese food. Fast stir fry with vegtables.
the large ones were cooked like fish.
Paper roast (cooked in parchment paper with either rice or pasta)
pan seared and finished in the oven
fried on the stove.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #31 on:** July 13, 2009, 07:17:13 AM »

If i cook one it will be over open fire as it will truely be to survive , it may be raw if at all .

rex6666 · « **Reply #32 on:** July 14, 2009, 07:23:41 AM »

Quote from: SHOOTALL on July 13, 2009, 07:17:13 AM

If i cook one it will be over open fire as it will truely be to survive , it may be raw if at all .

where is your sense of adventure?
I have no problem with the rattler, taste like chicken

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I feel i would have to be very hungry to eat a cottonmouth.
maybe after the big barn rats are gone.(taste like squirrel)

Oldshooter · « **Reply #33 on:** July 14, 2009, 07:34:55 AM »

I have seen chicken snakes(rat snakes) climb a greased pole to get to purple martin nest to eat em!

Short of a fire trench, you arent gonna keep em out if they think food is there

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #34 on:** July 14, 2009, 09:23:27 AM »

i ate gator but snakes i hate !

Dee · « **Reply #35 on:** July 14, 2009, 09:48:06 AM »

The day I eat a snake of any description will be the day, I have been hungry for several before, and not another meal in sight. I won't say "I never" but, I will say I have no plans to.

Oldshooter · « **Reply #36 on:** July 14, 2009, 10:21:39 AM »

Yep Never say never, I've eaten snake but would only eat it regularly if push had come to shove!

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #37 on:** July 14, 2009, 12:05:34 PM »

When I was little and had a BB gun I went around the ack yard and was shooting all kinds of things that I had out as targets. i then saw a sparrow in one of the trees and shot it. i think I was 7 or 8. and showed it to Dad when he got home. He made me clean it, cook it and eat it. Telling me that if I shoot it I have to eat it. Exccept for mice and rats. So since Rattlesnake is edible and does kind of taste like squirrel, why not if you have to get rid of one. trust me I don't set out to go snake hunting but no need to let it go to waste.
But then again I see the liver and hearts of Pheasants a food while most people chuck them. Fried Phesant liver is better than fried chicken liver and the little hearts are just as good as chicken hearts.

Dee · « **Reply #38 on:** July 15, 2009, 04:26:06 AM »

When I was kid starting at about 4 or 5, I was given a BB gun also. I shot every sparrow I could get to stand still long enough for a shot. My friends did like wise. Why? It was fun, and sparrows carry mites, they get into grain bins and pollute them, they nest in the most unhandy places, they proliferate like rabbits, and crowd out the NATIVE SPECIES for nesting, like MARTINS. Sparrows ARE NOT NATIVE to American and are a pain in the rear.
Now for the question: How did they taste?

blind ear · « **Reply #39 on:** July 15, 2009, 04:26:37 AM »

Sounds good to me. The Moc-sci-can tasted just like the rattler.
Thanks. eddiegjr

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #40 on:** July 15, 2009, 12:27:46 PM »

Lousy from what I remember. I also could not really cook at 8, I may be able to make it some what tasty now or drown it in green salsa.
well it was bad enough that I did not shoot another one.
aslo stopped me from shooting other song birds. Dad did it so I would not kill all the birds in the housing development. but since dad called pigeon a flying rat I guessed the same rules for rat applied.
and dad had to show me the rules about Dove and that I neede a hunting license. i did like how they tasted.

Dee · « **Reply #41 on:** July 15, 2009, 12:42:38 PM »

I guess it all boils down to where your from on the definition of song birds. Here the English Sparrow is considered a nusiance. Song birds here are Mockingbirds (Lord those things never shut up), wild canaries, Cardinals, and even Blue-jays. Orioles and such also. In the last few years, those south American grackles have started showing up (hate'em) and the giant south American dove have moved as far north as the Texas Panhandle. It's like shoot'en pigeons their so big. The morning dove is considered a song bird here, and good eating too. The south American version of the dove sounds more like a horror movie version of the dove.

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #42 on:** July 15, 2009, 01:22:03 PM »

We have the euroasian dove here in CA too.
so far I have seen them during the dove hunt and have been trying for a hat trick in one day of a mourning dove, white wing and euroasian thing. So far only white wings and mounrings. have to stop my self from shooting the little ground dove (they are protected and a hefty fine)
I grew up in NJ in a housing development built around an old Nike missle base where we would sneak in and play/ hunt or do other stupid things.
We had a slew of birds. Some were pests. But I don't think dad cared, I think he did not want me killing things because I could but to have a reason to kill it.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #43 on:** July 16, 2009, 01:35:40 AM »

In Va. crows are song birds sunday , tuseday and thursday . On monday, wensday friday and saturday they are nusiance birds and we can hunt them on those days season permitting . I would have to be mighty hungary to eat one no matter the day of the week.

deernhog · « **Reply #44 on:** July 16, 2009, 02:10:46 AM »

I have eaten it several times but only cooked it once. It was great in the taste area, the negative is the thought of eating a snake and I did think about that. Never ate a crow but would try it.

Oldshooter · « **Reply #45 on:** July 16, 2009, 05:11:45 AM »

Just ask my wife I've eaten crow on a few occasions! One Sunday in particular the whole family had fried chicken and all I had was crow!

Dee · « **Reply #46 on:** July 17, 2009, 05:53:19 PM »

Oldshooter, I too have eaten much crow over the years. Symbolically speaking of course.

Oldshooter · « **Reply #47 on:** July 20, 2009, 05:23:56 AM »

Quote

Symbolically speaking of course.

OF COURSE!

blind ear · « **Reply #48 on:** July 28, 2009, 02:20:43 PM »

Back to cotton mouths, If you smell cat pee while in the bushes, look for a moccasin.

deernhog · « **Reply #49 on:** July 29, 2009, 02:12:21 AM »

And the biggest part of the time there will be two if they are the smaller size. Seems like the really big ones are solo though. They all stink to high heck.

olydraft · « **Reply #50 on:** March 09, 2010, 06:58:50 AM »

Snake control: a small thermo nucler device should work well, just remember to do a little research and set it far enough away from your house.. You don`t want to scorch the siding... Also Rattle snake isn`t bad rolled in flour and fried in butter or, it`s quit tastey smoked in your handi "LiL Chief" smoker!!! Gary

handi243 · « **Reply #51 on:** May 07, 2010, 12:08:04 PM »

A line of sulfur my mom buys it by the truck loads she hate snakes

FourBee · « **Reply #52 on:** May 07, 2010, 12:49:13 PM »

Quote from: Oldshooter on July 14, 2009, 07:34:55 AM

I have seen chicken snakes(rat snakes) climb a greased pole to get to purple martin nest to eat em!

Short of a fire trench, you arent gonna keep em out if they think food is there

Snakes can climb most anything as long as they can keep a hold. Hopefully the elimination of the rat situation has solved Alan's problem. But since June is their breeding season,(well in this area), you'll find them all wadded up in a hideous monstrous ball in shallow waters. Wonder if a shotgun would knock out a bunch of 'em?

Dee · « **Reply #53 on:** May 07, 2010, 03:13:23 PM »

About 6 or 7 years ago we had the worst drought since the 50s. I rode my 4 wheeler down a white rock creek hunting hog sign. All I had was an automatic shotgun with slugs and a 45. I came around a bend in the creek and it made my hair stand up. A pool of water about 35 feet long, 20 feet wide and about 6 to 8 inches deep was swarming with cotton mouths. They were just scooping up the trapped minnows. I sat there on a rock ledge and killed 18 or 19 till I ran out of shotgun slugs. On the way back to my 4 wheeler I shot 2 more with my 45. It would give you the creeps. They had been following the water holes as they dried up, and that was about the last one. I had never seen that creek go dry in my life as it was spring fed, so no telling how far down they had crawled.

hillbill · « **Reply #54 on:** May 07, 2010, 04:42:40 PM »

umm a couple years ago i saw bags of snake repellent at wal mart in the lawn and garden section.not sure if they still have it.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #55 on:** May 13, 2010, 05:29:42 AM »

most farm supplies carry snake repel. Some say and use lime . the spread a thick 2 foot wide strip around where ever they don't want snakes to enter. The snake repel looks alot like it . Some let a couple pigs run loose as they eat snakes .

Oldshooter · « **Reply #56 on:** May 13, 2010, 05:50:10 PM »

A guy at the feed store told my wife that one of the ingredients in "snake repel" was the ingredient in moth balls so she throws mothballs under the chicken coop to repel the snakes.

the snakes that come prolly get confused and think they have entered a cedar closet!

Swampman · « **Reply #57 on:** May 13, 2010, 06:00:23 PM »

It would be easier to lose your unnatural fear of snakes. Men shouldn't fear reptiles.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #58 on:** May 14, 2010, 08:20:00 AM »

We don't we respect them ! We also find it much easier to respect them when they are dead .

Swampman · « **Reply #59 on:** May 14, 2010, 08:42:29 AM »

Understanding is key to losing the fear.