By the picture I would say he is a Big 'Un, yup, for sure that's what he is.
Tastes like chicken I hear...
Tastes like chicken I hear...
Rattlesnake I.D.?
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When metal detecting I carry a NAA 22 loaded with snake shot. It works fine on rattlers.
texmex
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I knew someone who lost a leg to a rattlesnake bite when he was 12 years old. He was airlifted to the hospital by helicopter but the snake was very large and injected an enormous amount of venom. Even though he was transported to a major hospital within minutes, they were barely able to save his life and unable to save his leg. Since then, I have killed every rattler I have come across. I will be very happy to help move them from the endangered list to the extinct list.
lrb1200
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Model46
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A others have said, it is a timber rattlesnake (sometimes called a canebrake). They are fairly common in your area. They aren't typically aggressive unless trapped. In the rare instances when I have come upon one, I simply walk the other way and leave it be. Believe me, the snake wants nothing to do with you either. Live and let live.
I've only seen one live Rattle Snake in Ohio. It was in early spring and was in supply house at coal mine. Some big electric motors where brought inside. They were in crates and came from southern WVA. Small timber Rattler was a sto-away.
Picture of big Timber Rattler that was run over near Cadiz, Ohio.
Because of the fracking going on I write this one off as illegal immigrant to. I think snake went to OSU to determine if it was a true resident.
Many Copperheads in Ohio but I haven't seen a Rattler in the woods.
Picture of big Timber Rattler that was run over near Cadiz, Ohio.
Because of the fracking going on I write this one off as illegal immigrant to. I think snake went to OSU to determine if it was a true resident.
Many Copperheads in Ohio but I haven't seen a Rattler in the woods.
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texmex
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I have had people try to tell me that rattlers help control the rat and mice population. That may be true, but Indigos and Bull snakes also help control rats and mice, but they don't kill or maim people. I do not bother the non-venemous snakes. I once had and Indigo that lived under my house. I would put a bowl of half & half out for him every once in a while and also made sure he had a source of water (it gets hot in South Texas). We got so used to each other that if I set the bowl of cream on the porch in between my legs, he would crawl over my leg to get to it. When I was in elementary school, one of our neighbors was hanging laundry on the line in her backyard. A cotton mouth water moccasin bit her on her heel. Her husband took her to the emergency room immediately (9 miles). She died in the hospital that night.
"Cotton Mouth's" are real Bad JuJu !!
I fear them the most.
Very glade that I live in the West, away from the "Glades" .
12 gauge ?
Doug M.
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One of the reasons we eliminate certain areas from retirement or even visit consideration.
Rattlesnakes are not common in my area, they used to be more common when I was a kid...thats been a few years. Nowdays you have to know where to go and really go out of your way to find one, we call them prairie rattlesnakes. I used to mess around with rattlesnakes as a kid in Utah, I thought it was good eating. I go out of my way to leave them alone if encountered while fishing or afield in areas known to have snakes. I carry a couple of chambers of 7-1/2 shot caps in my carry piece if I run across one that seems a bit too aggressive. We have more Bull snakes than rattlers, I'm told that bull snakes eat rattle snakes, if you find bull snakes on one side of a creek you'll not find a rattlesnake, unless you cross the creek. A bull snake will put on airs like he was a rattle snake, they bite like crazy...
