I hate snakes!!!!!
Just yesterday I killed my third copperhead this year. That copperhead made snake 32 for this summer and summer isn't even half over
I can't imagine being bit by a poisonous snake I think that I would die from a heart attack before the venom even started to effect me.
I'd like too see some of those snakes in all my life I've been in creeks and ponds i have seen 1 poisonous snake out of literally 1000's.. Your prolly killing common water snakes not venomous snakes.. Which I shoot sometimes too in my pond since some are big around as a beer can..
You sound like me -- although I really have no desire to see them. I've never seen a rattlesnake in the wild. I'm not sure how many copperheads I've seen in my life, but it is certainly less than 10, out of many hundreds, probably thousands of snakes in my nearly 66 years.
But, I've sure been with a lot of people who were certain that whatever snake we were looking at was a copperhead!
I'm not a fan of water snakes, and they do frequently become 2-piece snakes mostly because of their bad attitude.