have anyone of you poison snakes?

[infernalis]

Target shooting..

Why? are you the target? do you wear a shirt with a red circle in the centre?

[adamanteus]

I agree with Shannon and Loren, many people do have dangerous hobbies.... but that danger is normally only to ones self. When you keep venomous snakes, you put others in danger too.
I have very mixed feelings on the matter..... I kept them for many years, so I can't really judge others, but as Stefan points out, a lot depends on the individual and their motives for wanting to keep venomous snakes.
If there were no children in the house, I might well be tempted again.

[gregmonsta]

I will never have venemous pets ... I'm too unlucky ... mild anaphelapsis and a terrible allergy to horses puts the vast majority of antivenin out of my reach ... Personal choice, me thinks ... climbing K2 has an almost 50% death rate ... people still do it ... I would love to see a venemous collection but would keep my hands off ... as much as I would love to.

[reptile3]

Why? are you the target? do you wear a shirt with a red circle in the centre?

[Stefan-A]

Why? are you the target? do you wear a shirt with a red circle in the centre?

I'm not the one people usually hunt, either. No, the reason it's not hunting is because nobody would take a guy like that hunting in the first place. You'd get ostracized in a heartbeat.

[infernalis]

Getting serious for a moment (Imagine that) we frequently target shoot with assault rifles that fire supersonic rounds to 800 yards before they fall subsonic.

A ricochet would be instantly fatal with the wrong back drop.

[adamanteus]

My biggest regret is that I never really got serious about photographing my venomous snakes, I guess I always thought there would be other opportunities. Plus, it was before the days of digital photography, so it was a pain in the butt.
Most of the decent photos I did have were given away or lost over the years, but here are the few I could find...



Naja nivea



Naja nivea



Crotalus adamanteus



Crotalus (durissus) vegrandis

[adamanteus]

Naja sputatrix



Trimeresurus albolabris



Bitis arietans



Agkistrodon contortrix



Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti

[reptile3]

Amazing James... you had all those?

[adamanteus]

Amazing James... you had all those?

I did, Stephanie. And many, many more.