When I was young and dump and full of sap, I use to catch non-poisioous snakes, but after the coppersnake bite, I got a phobia of any snakes, h*@%, now I'll even kill large nightcrawlers
Just the other day, I ended my turkey hunting a couple hours early, just because of a snake scaring the S*@% out of me, and I figure the roar of the .12 gauge shotgun would't improve the turkey hunting one bit!