I have a buddy in Houston that brees copperheads. He has a hypomelanistic copperhead that is neon orange almost. He picked through these guys and took what he wanted and the rest got rereleased back into the wild away from my fathers front yard. Just hours before we found these guys me and my two children were all in that yard with sandels and tenny shoes. Definitly lucky no one got bite. We found 22 starting at 7:00 pm til 12:00 pm. Copperheads are very abundant. I have found almost fourty this year alone. Some really nice and some not. I just move them off the road so they dont get hit. Unless they are really nice them my friend gets them. I beleive I might have found a anery/axanthic copperhead. Time will tell as it ages alittle more. But the snake is loaded with black and the belly is very black as well.