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Old 09-28-2008, 07:50 PM   #1
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Well I had a first tonight notice its still pretty early and I am typing this. I finally got in the woods today at 4 and got my romance novel was sitting in my groundblind reading and waiting for a deer to come in when I suddenly heard a something in the grass right next to my blind..I am thinking that a rat or mouse is moving when all of a sudden a copperhead comes in and visits me for a few minutes...This scares me as I dont like snakes and epecially copperheads about a foot and a half. Upon all my fear and scared to move I didnt take a pic.Has this happened to anyone else?? Is there anything I can do to keep them out?
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Old 09-29-2008, 08:20 AM   #2
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Hasn't happened to me yet but I always check real good before stepping in!! Not sure there is much you can do but try and shovel dirt real good around bottom of the blind, inside and out! Glad you didn't get bit. Did you kill it or did it leave?
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Old 09-29-2008, 08:45 AM   #3
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yes i had one already in the blind and after i had sat there waiting on light i felt something rubbing across the top of my foot got the light and a 6 foot rat snake crawled out very unnerving.the old timers say to circle your bedding with a lariat rope they wont crawl across the rope this may work on a ground blind
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Old 09-29-2008, 12:28 PM   #4
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It came in after I was there about an hour..may try the rope
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I didnt kill it I was scared to move
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Old 09-29-2008, 12:37 PM   #6
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Try burying the edge of the fabric on the pop up. With the edge buried the snakes will have a harder time getting in.
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Old 10-01-2008, 06:20 PM   #7
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This is why I elevate my popups
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