[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Actually, I've always found it the opposite. Cottonmouths will actually try and avoid you unless you step on them, which I've done a couple of times, and even then, if they have an avenue of escape, they'll take off like a bat out of hell. Scared the hell out of me, and the last time, I think I achieved a world record for a standing, vertical jump. ;^)

Copperheads, on the other hand, can get pretty mean. The majority of snakebites we get down here in south Louisiana come from copperheads, followed by rattlers. Mocassin bites are more rare and I can't remember the last time I heard of somebody getting bitten by a coral snake.

[StoneGiant]

Actually, I've always found it the opposite. Cottonmouths will actually try and avoid you unless you step on them, which I've done a couple of times, and even then, if they have an avenue of escape, they'll take off like a bat out of hell.


When I was 8 years old I got chased by a cottonmouth ... up my yard, down 3 houses, and into the next house's backyard, where I proceded to climb on a fence.

Funny, but up until that point in time I collected snakes.

Now I collect dead snakes....