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What region/state is this looker of a juvenile from?

to mine????........

that's sweet...........!!!

.......I have no idea..just like it.......

....I'll say.......lottery pick....Northeastern MO.......hahaha....

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........what a head........

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not real sure, Illinios???

beautiful;heartland syspila-i like the missouri guess.

....shame to have come to all that for this guy finally get some peace...

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"with head raised regally,and gazing at me with lidless eyes,he seemed to question with flicks of his long forked tongue my right to trespass on his territory" Carl Kauffeld

ALABAMBA?

Superb little syspila!
Iowa or Alabama are my best guesses.
Jeff

Holy Moley, Chad! Did you find that? My best guess is E. MO.

-Cole

I don't know enough about syspila to even guess a locale, but that thing is killer! nice snake.

Dave
DNS Reptiles

I'll say western Kentucky

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

I'd put it as a NE Arkansas animal or a NW Illinois animal, like north of St. Louis. The band count seems like a western/south western range snake but the head pattern and saddles look to me like those typical of syspila from the NE part of their range. Just a shot in the dark...

I'm going w/ Arkansas on that little red headed dream syspila.

-Dell

Good guesses by all. Doug nailed it. The snake is from western Kentucky (Lyon Co.) which is in the intergrade zone with L.t.t.

Nice! Is he from Land Between the Lakes? The 'intergrade' area here (I'm from adjacent northwestern Middle TN) is almost more of an 'overlap' zone. We've got L. t. elapsoides here, too. It's a milksnake wonderland!

Killer snake Chad!!
Nate