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Hello everyone. Lately it seems as though there's been several guessing games going on in the forum, so I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring. I only have photos of two critters, but I thought it'd be entertaining enough to have you all guess the subspecies and the locale. Have fun!

Critter #1

Same critter as above

Critter #2

Have a great day everyone!

Mitch

Can I play, homie? Or am I disallowed?

Hope the camping trip was as killer as your snakes.

-Cole

Of course you can play! You might nail 'em, but then again....

As for camping, it was fun, but THE most exhausting thing I've done all year. When I was a kid I loved camping, no cares in the world. Oh, how the tables have turned. My wife and I took three teenagers and one 17-monther up to Tahoe. Do you know how much of an ordeal it is warming milk in a bottle on a Coleman stove at 3AM?! It was much more work than relaxation for Kat and I, but it was still so much fun. When we returned home we didn't do a darn thing for three days!

Mitch

Holy brave! You're the man, Mitch!

I'll guess Jefferson Co., Missouri on the syspila and Bighorn County, Montana on the pale.

-Cole

Cole,

I thought you'd nail these...glad to see I can throw even one of the best NA milk experts a curve ball! Wrong on both. 

Mitch

Clark County, IA on the syspila.

Cherry County, NE on the multistrata. At least, that's what the wedge or 'V' on the top of the head tells me. The stockiness indicates something further north or west, but then again, it is YOUR snake so it's bound to be well-fed!

Gorgeous animals, man.

-Cole

Hey Mitch,

Great looking animals. I love that red. Southern Illinois? And Big Horn for the other one.

I give you credit for camping with a youngin'. You're a better man than I bro!!

Dave
DNS Reptiles - Milk Snakes

Dave,

I don't know if I was camping as much as I was surviving! Haha. Thanks for the compliments on the snakes, but wrong on both.

Mitch

Mitch that syspila is awesome looking. I'm going to go w/ Madison Co., but I've got a few Marion Co. animals that look a lot like it too.
Marion Co.

Now the next milk is a Bighorn Co. Pale, and I can't get over how jaw dropping it is.

Here is the male that produced your adults, that produced that impressive looking neonate.
Sorry to if I ruined your game. .......Dell

Wrong on both guesses....but so freakin' close with one!

Dell, both those animals are smokin' , but that Marion is phenomenal!

Mitch

D'OH!!!!!! @#$& brickabracka %#@&^ D'OH!!!! I coulda swore???

-Dell

I thought I'd add these two to the game, but with them just guess subspecies (this is a gimmie!!!!!). Really I just wanted Dell, Cole, and Jeff to see these two. They're from my favorite locale of _________.

Male

Female

Mitch

Those are syspila regardless of whether they're from the interior midwest, southeast, or from the central Atlantic seaboard.

-Cole

They look 100% syspila to me....

Very nice one's too!

~Doug
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joizee temporalis.....

>>joizee temporalis.....
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That's my guess too. Relict pop of syspilla in my opinion.

I would have guessed Cherry Co. pale on the other.

Two beatiful milk specimens!
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Joe