Several years ago,,and all of this is in Martin Co..send that Game Warden down here,,I I can show him copperheads if he wants hunt for them on my 40 acres,,but several years ago,,while plowing a very old field on the hunt club I was a member of, as we decided to plant wild life food plots,,this field was only about 3 acres in the bottoms,,as I turned the furrows over,,wearing a 357 mag..I killed about 20 copperheads all the way up to 3.5 - 4ft long and super fat..every pass,,they would be laying on the furrows as looking like what happend...well,,I looked back around the single bottom plow,,and 2 of them were wrapped around it,,and I was plinking away at a steel plow freaking out,,as me and snakes just don't get along since Vietnam and encounters with all the pit vipers over there, as well as cobras in the jungles..South East Coral Sea snakes,,,all deadly posionous...but killing that rattler 2 yrs ago,,it was a small one,,so me and the GF have constantly had our eyes peeled all the time,,as you kill a small one,,there had to be a nest some where close, and I am still looking,,but we see copperheads every now and then,,just going to the mail box,,its why I keep the grass mowed so low,,they won't come into the yard with no cover. Anywhere you have weeds,,you have field mice,,and anywhere you have field mice,,you have snakes,,especially the copperheads,,stay out of the weeds,,and you won't have any problems,