Cajunrider, Not a bad moccasin you have there, mothers day last year my mother in law and my wife were strolling along a creek that feeds one of our lakes and as MIL started to cross the creek one of our guard dogs got in front of her and backed her off with teeth bared she thought my pup had gone hydrophoby and screamed but my wife used to our dogs training told her slowly back away from where she was, they started hollering to bring a gun, funny what a 357 does to a snakes head. My wife has developed quite a liking for snake skins this mocassin was over 5' and the very next weekend while swimming we were forced out of the lake by another even larger now my honey has a matched set of mocassin hides. I shoot em she skins preserves and scrapes the hides shes turning in to quite the country girl no whinning here. I can think of no other North American snake that I hate worse they are the only ones that once they see a human will advance and pursue with evil intentions, rattlers, corals, copperheads they will all avoid you if they can.
On a lighter note I think your tractor idea might work we saw our last mocassin in August and by November I had a M9000 Kubota tractor and all the toys to go with it.
Steve
