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Stan, I'd call it a cottonmouth. Most of the grown ones don't show as much pattern as the one pictured, but the little guys do. I'd guess the one Skip pictured was a small one...Geo

Guess so, G. It's been a long time since I bumped into a little one. Ain't I lucky?

Doc, fantastic gun pictures. The name on the sidelock speaks for itself. However, a scalloped boxlock looks about as nice as anything to my eye and the pierced toplever is icing on the cake.

Battle, the little pea shooter did well. It seemed like a couple of birds flew right through my pattern but I expect a little bit of that when shooting 1/2 ounce loads. It was the first time I shot it and it functioned as expected.

Mr. Newborn is correct about younger ones typically being more colorful and that is most definitely a cottonmouth. That snake was right at four feet and it is not real common for one that old to still have such vivid markings. We have a subspecies and the only way I know to differentiate between it and the standard cottonmouth is a thin light border along the dark brown patch on the side of the head.

Another of the birds that have fallen to the thirty-two gauge this year.





Wednesday it was a four-ten that got to go out and play.

Had a good opener here in Southeast Alabama. I hunted with Jeremy, a friend from church, on my neighbors property. Jeremy grew up in Iowa and his only bird hunting experience has been on pheasant and dove.

We went out at first light to listen for coveys. We heard 5 and came back about an hour later and found 2 coveys within 2 hours. After killing 4 birds (3 males, 1 female), we called it a day at 8:30AM. It was warming up pretty quickly and as most of yall know, snakes are prevalent in the pineywoods.

Rusty pointing the first covey of the season.


Hunting singles.


First quail of the season.


Jeremy in the longleaf pineywoods.


Rooster bobwhite.



Jeremy with his first brace of wild bobs.









Thanks for looking!
Adam

Trip to Maine for two days of Ruffed Grouse/Woodcock hunting:

Stuttgart Arkansas live timber Mallards with my Scott 10 ga.



Pretty good one person one day haul...1 longbeard, 4 jakes and 1 hen. Called to the gun after my dog Buster flushed them.



Another Tennessee fall longbeard killed with my 2 & 3/4" Scott 12 ga. a couple of days later.