Spring is here - the beasties are about

[Kapp]

Found this one exiting the neighbor's yard yesterday. He has dogs and twin little girls. A bit over 5' stretched out. Notice the impact mark in the dirt - .44 Spl. Enjoy the weather!

Kapp

 

[Kapp]

Found this one exiting the neighbor's yard yesterday. He has dogs and twin little girls. A bit over 5' stretched out. Notice the impact mark in the dirt - .44 Spl. Enjoy the weather!

Kapp

 

[keith44spl]

Well Done.

The 44 Special, the all around cartridge.

Su Amigo,
Dave

 

[Cocked & Locked]

way fat rattler

 

[Iggy]

2 degrees and 2 inches of snow.. Ray Rattler won't be out here until May.

 

[rewster]

I've yet to see one around here

 

[pete-driver]

I hear they're tasty. Do you fry it or bake it?

 

[Texas Star]

Eastern Diamondback?

Did you cut off the rattles? The tail looks odd...

T-Star

 

[Kapp]

pete-driver: No.

Texas Star: Yes, a big Eastern. No, I didn't cut off the rattles - he must have lost them somehow. He also must have dined recently. This one is slightly shorter but fatter than one I encountered thirty feet from this spot a couple of years ago. A sandy scrub oak hill is on the other side of the road there's lots of gopher tortoise holes about - snakes love it. I shot him beacuse my neighbor has twin 6 or seven year old daughters and a couple of pets. The snake was coming out of his yard and crossing the dirt road.

Kapp

Kapp

 

[Big Rich]

Nice shooting!

 

[feralmerril]

As sip would say, "Thats why I left georgia".

 

[BarbC]

That there's a chilled rattler.

Stone cold, in fact.

 

[Capt Steve]

The early spring combined with the warm winter we have had is bringing them out early this year. I am seeing them all over the golf courses I work and play at. They have been in their dens all winter and now they are out;, hungry, horny and very active. Watch where you step.

 

[sipowicz]

Deader than the deadest of dead!

 

[Cocked & Locked]

Did you cut off the rattles? The tail looks odd...

Each time a rattlesnake molts, it adds another rattle. They can molt one or several times a year. Generally, the longer the rattle the older the snake.

The rattle "material" is like a thin fingernail and is not too difficult to break. The longer the rattle gets, the easier it becomes to break off. If the rattle ends in a smooth rounded button, then it has never broken off. If it ends with the last segment looking just like the other ones, then it has broken off.

 

[VAdoublegunner]

I thought this was a Georgia Rattlesnake.
Yours is a lot less tasty looking...

 

[reerc]

Thank you, sir. I know a lot of folks who preach leaving them alone, that they're just doing what snakes do, but in my book, a world with one less rattler in it, is a world better off.

(Oh, nice shootin' too; the one I dispatched a couple of summers ago wouldn't hold still - hard to hit a moving target as small as a snake's head with a J-frame.)

 

[TNDixieGirl]

OMG...am I the only one that is totally creeped out by snake pics? Come on, be honest.

 

[reerc]

I'm not creeped out, but I certainly have no use for the SOBs.

 

[sammi357]

the only good snake is boots.