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Is this a normal or okeetee corn. I cant really tell. Thanks in advance for any help!

Here's another pic

Okeetee is a naturally occurring phase, so an Okeetee is a normal. UNless you know for sure that its genetics can be traced to the SC Okeetee hunt club, I'd call it normal.
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Yes, thats what i thought. But i was just trying to see if it would be considered an okeetee cause of the saddle outline. And when i go by that it looks like a normal. Does everybody agree with that?

Since your corn is not known to local specific from that region of South Carolina, that would mean your corn is either normal or Okeetee Phase. Now which one is yours? Hard to say. Where is the line drawn as far as how thin or thick the black borders have to be, before it becomes an Okeetee phase? You either have a very nice normal, or maybe even an Okeetee phase.
My corn pictured below has some decent borders. Not as nice as many I've seen, but he is a true locality Okeetee from Howie Sherman. Howie had field collected the founding stock. Either way yours is a beauty. Normal or Okeetee phase.

Steve

>>Yes, thats what i thought. But i was just trying to see if it would be considered an okeetee cause of the saddle outline. And when i go by that it looks like a normal. Does everybody agree with that?

OK thank you. You were a big help! And that is a beautiful okeetee.

Steve,

That is a smoking Okeetee!!! I have always sat and drooled over Howie's corns each year in Daytona. Usually, prior reservations on other snakes prevents me from getting one, but someday, I would love to have a real locality Okeetee. Howie's are awesome! They are true Okeetee's in the very sense of the word.

Take care!
Billy
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Thanks Billy. Howie does produce some awesome animals. Not only great locality corns, but locality kings as well. I'm sure I'm going to pick up one of his Va. locality Eastern kings sometime in the hear future. Thanks for the compliment on my corn.
Steve