I don't understand why one would shoot a snake unless it was venomous and a risk to pets or people. Turtle there are moccasins in Missouri I think, do you believe that's what it was? I have never seen one before - I think they get pretty common down South.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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