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I have this exact rifle and absolutely love it. Can't go wrong with this rifle!

I need to go out looking with you!

Hopi if you saw it around here in the lowlands. I'd have to go back and look at the current taxonomy, but I think that's one that remained a subspecies of the prairie/viridis group.

I just got the 12x12 and have only used it once, but man oh man! My son and I set it up in fading light and it was slow the first time, but im confident we'll get better. I absolutely LOVE our Kodiak 12x12.

Fairly typical southeast AZ looking blacktail! Great find!

Here's a mostly black phase (some red speckling visible) Masticophis flagellum (coachwhip) from outside Tucson years ago.

I've heard all about it. I kinda want to go, but only about a foot on shore!

Cold root beer and you got yourself a deal! I quit drinking in 2013, but will never turn down cold craft root beer!

Yep. Brown vine snake. Locally common around the Pena Blanca Lake area and frequently found on trees!

Red pahse coachwhip. Same as what Tim (Edge) posted. Great find!

I'd love to hang out at your place!

I'm not Tim (he's way cooler than I), but I can tell you Its a red variation coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum). I've seen them in red, tan, and dark black. I'll see if I can find the pic of the black one I came across in Saguaro NP up in a mesquite tree. Coachwhips are frequently called racers out west. One of my least-favorite non-venomous snake species to get bitten by.

No worries at all and you're welcome! The first massasauga I found down there was a DOR. It didn't look like a diamondback or a prairie (other potential option in that area). I collected it, thinking it was an abberent prairie rattlesnake. I got stopped later by AGFD. I showed him the live mohaves I'd collected and my collecting permit. He mentioned massasaugas being high on the poaching list. It hit me what I had. I poured through my permit to make sure I was legal. I also collected a DOR Gila monster that night, also legal since it was DOR. My graduate school professor just about lost his $h!t completely, even though it was perfectly legal. He just didn't want to deal with the stress and perceived grey area.

100% diamondback. Juvenile, too, based on the single button. In Arizona, desert massasaugas only live in one small part of southeastern Arizona, in the tobossa grasslands along Hwy 80 north of Douglas. I found one DOR way back in the day during grad school while looking for mohaves along Hwy 80.

Yep. Have donated a few tags to Eddy