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“I hit him, he was knocked out for a few seconds and then I beat him to death,” said Anderson who admitted that he was no snake killer but had no other choice at the time.
“I know that their bite isn’t fatal but it can make you pretty sick and I’m an old man, nearly 70,” said Anderson. “I would have been hard pressed to get down that mountain alone if I had been bitten.”
Anderson’s mounted timber snake is a beauty with geometric patterns adoring its back. The snake was undoubtedly old with a row of thirteen perfectly shaped rattlers.
“I believe that each rattler represents three years of a snake’s life,” grinned Anderson, “so this snake was close to 40-years old.”
Anderson spends a lot of time working in the hills and mountains of Rappahannock County. He has seen a lot of snakes in his time.
“Mostly, they will be out sunning themselves on the rock walls. I always just leave them alone,” said
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