No..... Not a moccasin...... This was up in North East Penn. Let me add this.

The guy in the truck with me was an old ridge runner.

After the snakes first strike, he told me to distract the snake from the front while he went around behind it.

The next strike, the snake extended out and he grabbed it by the tail and "Whipped" it. He did that about 5 times and killed the thing. Then he propped open the jaws to check out the fangs.

wound up burying the thing in a cinder pile. Something about snakes coming back to life if not properly buried.