Eastern North Carolina has an early-season problem that deer hunters at other regions don’t experience much — the slithery kind.
“I don’t hunt much out of ground blinds early in the season because of snakes,” Hall said. “You want to hear me scream? Let me walk up on a copperhead.”
Hall said he put his uncle, who was visiting from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, in a ground blind early during gun season one year.
“It was in October after a hurricane had flooded us pretty good,” Hall said. “Pretty soon we heard him shooting buckshot — a lot,” Hall said. “We thought he must be wrapping (deer) up pretty good.”
When Hall went to investigate, he found his ashen-faced uncle babbling, holding an empty gun and empty shell box.
“He said he didn’t think he had enough bullets to get out of there,” Hall said. “He said the water moccasins were comin’ after him.”
Until cold weather drives snakes underground, hunters should wear snake chaps or snake-proof boots in Eastern North Carolina when walking to or from deer stands or trailing a wounded deer.
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