Rattlesnake

[AJ]

I have a Niece that likes to catch them up in Pa.

My B-I-L and Niece. There is a competition there and she has won the last three years for the largest caught.

 

[gym cat]

I am not a fan of any animal or insect with "no legs" or "too many legs".

 

[Greyman50]

“ Sylvester No Shoulders”, used to kill one every year back on farm. Very close to 6 feet long or over as lived near Great Dismal Swamp. Would leave them alone in the woods but if in yard they bit the bullet as kids and dog were there. One time late wife got in car and drove 10 miles to closest grocery store. Said she heard something flopping under car. She went in store but when she came out 5-6 people were standing about 6’ in front of car looking at drivers side wheel. She asked” whats wrong with that car? One told her there was a snake hanging behind tire. She drove home told me and went out to remove snake. Very dead water moccasin that would have been around 4’. Scary as her foot was very close to snake when she got in car. Next week put up fence in woods and bought 3 goats, end of snake issue.

 

[Kinman]

I appreciate snakes for their position in the eco structure, they do keep the vermin down. Rattlesnake tastes good enough that if I was following someone that ran one over I would pull over, throw it in the back of the rig and eat it that evening if not before. It don't taste like chicken but is close with a little fishy flavor thrown in. I tell people its alot like eating crab, the way it flakes off the bone, you end up with a pile of shredded white meat, a little lemon and butter....

 

[Barbarian-CBX]

Tastes like chicken.

 

[LittleAugieMo]

I see a hat band or two

 

[CyberPunkSpartan]

I am not a snake guy so I could not tell you what it is but I took this when I was walking over at Waterton Canyon South of Denver. It is a rattle snake of some sort.

 

[Lima_Delta54321]

re: Skeet 028

That's a real beauty !

 

[Lima_Delta54321]

I think it was someone on this forum a few years back posted a picture from where they lived. It was a rattlesnake den with hundreds of snakes in it!! I would’ve immediately had a panic attack if I saw it.
Larry

Yes I have seen pits of rattle snakes in NV, north of Silver Springs. Yep creepy as hell, but impressive...

 

[Capt. F.]

I'll trade you a mess of chiggers for a cold spell and 12 inches of snow.

Can you eat chiggers? If so- deal!

 

[Faulkner]

Can you eat chiggers? If so- deal!

Negative, but they can eat you!

 

[Greyman50]

I see a hat band or two

Had several bands made from rattle snake skins. Have to dig through old pics and see if they can be there…..

 

[steelslaver]

It taste like chicken? Are you sure chicken doesn't taste like rattlesnake, because I always tell people stuff taste like rattlesnake?

 

[Rubone]

 

[cballman]

Was at the Edistio island serpentarium yester and they had a venom extraction show. Now I have Senn them on tv before but never in person and up that close. The man Ted Clamp and his daughter did the show and answered many questions about the extraction show. It was an experience I will have to see again. And just for giggles NO I didn't get that close or even touch one.

 

[Mannlicher]

I hike the piney flats, gall berry and palmetto thickets and swamps here in N. Florida. Snakes are a constant. I don't often have any reason to kill one, but as the OP mentioned, finding one on the porch is probably not going to end well for the slithery reptile.

 

[Smoke]

I've lived in Colorado since 1992 and I spent a lot of that time down range in Fort Carson or out in undeveloped parts of El Paso County working as a security guard and I've only ever seen three rattlesnakes.

I saw two at the bottom of a foxhole on a firing range on Fort Carson. I have no idea how they got those snakes out of the Foxhoke.

And I saw one way out in the back 40 at the Ray Nixon plant. The one I saw at the power plant was way out in the boonies and I would have been just as happy to leave it alone but it crawled up under my truck and I think maybe it struck at the engine or the drive shaft.

Because when I drove away I backed up to give the snake room to go away and I saw it laying in the middle of the road and it's jaw was deformed like it had struck at something moving and it ripped its jaw off.



When I worked at propane the place was over run with these guys. We had post orders against messing with the wildlife and I wasn't going to anyway but I did some research and I found out that this is a Great Plains Rat Snake and apparently they eat rattlesnakes. So if you have these guys around your house don't mess with them because if you have one of them you'll never have rattlesnakes

 

[AJ]

50 years ago here in this part of Florida, snakes were common in the woods. Not so much in town. Did see an eight foot rattler that was killed at the city dump back then. They are around now, but away from housing areas. We do have a couple of large Black Snakes in our yard. We leave them alone and they do the same for us. Had one get in the house, but that is another story!

 

[03hemi]

Found band in an antique store years ago.

 

[lihpster]

I always wanted a house made out of rattlesnake hide like George Thorogood. Probably just use a brick chimney, though.