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Flipped this Alabama syspila today in Winston County. A lot of sweat, blood, chigger bites, ticks, and effort go into finding one of these jewels down here. Hunt hard and often in Spring and you'll find one of these about every 10 years. Most prairie rock turners would not believe the habitat down here. This ain't pussy
flippin' flat limestone rocks in Kansas or Missouri.

I'd be doin' cartwheels too if I captured that, that's a real STUNNER!.....congratulations!

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

Thanks Doug. I'm typing and doing cartwheels right now. When you put so much effort into something and finally come through, well, it's a great feeling.

WOW, nice snake. You can see pics online all day long and even spend your hard earned $$ on what people want to get rid of....but you dont get the thrill, as well as the trophy. Problem is now you gotta find another one to make them yourself....Good luck!

What a beauty!! Awesome find - that is one killer snake.

Dave
DNS Reptiles

Thanks Dave. It is a looker if I don't say so myself.

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" a.k.a. farfrumugen "
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

That is one beautiful find! I'd certainly say the hard work paid off... killer snake!

Chris

You could spend 10 years breeding and still not get one that nice!

Know the gender yet?

Kind regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
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1.2.9 Storeria dekayi Casper, Xena, Athena, & Kids
0.0.2 Thamnophis marcianus - Checkered Garter Snakes
0.0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis - common Garter - Princess
0.0.1 Nerodia sipedon - Water Snake - "Aqua"
0.1.10 Storeria occipitomaculata - Red Belly snakes
0.0.1 Amelanistic Corn Snake "CY" Juvinile CB
0.1.0. Pueblan Milk snake "Oreo" adult CB
1.0.0. ASIAN GREEN SNAKE 3' WC Cyclophiops major
0.0.1. Savannah Monitor "CHOMPER" CB
0.1.0. Green Anole "Crystal" WC
1.0.0. K9 "ACE" Black Cockapoo
1.2.0. Feline"Felix" "Kaja" & "Silver"
0.1.0. calico RAT
2.4.?? Mice - Feeder farm - Crickets / fish
More herps than I could ever list out back on the land.

Very nice! Hopefully I'll be able to experience that same feeling with a Temporalis this year. I'll keep you posted.
I bet you were jumping around so much that you shook off all the ticks and chiggers. LOL!!! Congratulations!
-Phil
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Work is the curse
of the drinking class!

With finding some temporalis Phil... Do keep us posted if you do find anything...

Chris

>>> "Do keep us posted if you do find anything..."

Are you kiddin' Chris!?, Phil will be doin' cartwheels too just like any one of us here would!.......I'm sure if he finds something cool like temporalis, he'll waste no time in posting a "WOOOOOOO-HOOOOOO!!!!" thread of his own..LOL!!!

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

Yeah fair enough -- lol. I'm sure you'd hear screams up and down the eastern seaboard if I ever found anything as well!

Dunno about the cartwheels... might bring back a few moves though.

Awesome find and a great syspila too! Congrats!
Jeff
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It doesn't matter who votes. What matters is who counts the votes............Josef Stalin

That sucks, you work your ass off for a long time to find a syspila and it turns out to be ugly.

Alabama is hard to hunt for syspila, which makes it hard for syspila hunters to learn how to find snakes there. I'd imagine that those prairie herpers would do just fine, in fact they have.

Hey Chad, I was just trying to get a rise out of you. LOL.
Yeah, milks are indeed a lot harder to find down here, but like
you said, you get better with experience.
How are you doing lately?

Ugly?!!!
Here's a better pic:

Scott

Hiya Scott, I forgot that was you, lol...I was like...uhhhhh, huh? LOL...

I still don't think that milk is all that, but it does have nice deep red. The head pattern is just a little too busy for me and I only like black triads on the top...yep, I'm a picky milk guy.

Missouri, BTW, is no walk in the park...syspila may be easy to find there, but the trick is finding many of them so that you can find the screamers.

Regardless, megaCONGRATS, I know that you've been waiting a long time and working hard!