Welcome to this Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reaves. From Coon Hutton to

Trot Line and in just general country living, I want you to stay a while as I share

my stories and country skills that will help you beat the system. This Country

Life is proudly presented as part of Meet Eaters podcast network bringing

you the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right friends, pull

you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I think I got a thing or two to teach you.

Snakes. I can think a few words that will get your attention quicker than

someone saying snake. Say it loudly and you'll get everyone's attention. Research

says that we have an ingrained fear of them that has become natural over time. I

don't know if I agree 100% with that but I will bet that there's more folks that fear

them than those of us that don't. And if you're in the woods a lot like I am, you're

going to see them and you ought to be informed about what you're looking at. More importantly,

you need to be prepared and have a plan in the back of your mind for the ones you run

up on that you don't see. We're talking about snakes this week but first I'm going to tell you

a story. I was in high school and probably about 16 years old and I had taken my mom's car to

town to knock around with my friends on a Sunday afternoon and on the way home. I saw a pretty good

rattlesnake crossing the road and I decided to catch him and take him home to show my mom.

I don't know why I did that but in the heat of the moment she was the only one I knew that I

could show the snake to. Everybody else was gone. So I stopped her car and I caught him.

It wasn't my first time catching the venom of snake, not even close. There wasn't any kind of snake

that was off limits to my rounding up skills growing up. I'd catch him all and I never had an

issue except cotton mouse had a bad musky odor that would stink up the world and they did everything

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