More snake info... an addendum to my earlier post about my hunting trip at reelfoot years ago. I began seeing snakes like I said earlier as the sun began to warm things up. I would encounter them frequently as I tried to make my way back a small ridge I had traveled down into the swamp that morning BEFORE daylight. Every time I had a snake confront me on that trail out, he would be aggressive and threaten me. I accommodated them by using my deer rifle. Pretty soon I heard something approaching me thru the water and it was a guy that looked like he just walked out of the deliverance movie and yelled to ask who was doing all the shooting. I explained why it was me and he replied "Son ,you haven't got enough shells to kill all the snakes you're gonna see today" He quickly took out a saw he was toting in a holster and cut a small sapling and made a small whip. He said here I'll show you how to deal with a snake and after a few steps another snake appears and he just whipped that snakes head at the neck and presto! dead snake, no wiggle, no writhe, just dead snake. He turned promptly to me and said "Here use this, quit shooting in here I'm hunting in here" and he disappeared with his hip boots back into the swamp.