I think this is the stuff nightmares are made of:
Rattlesnake Den Close-up - YouTube
I think I would need to find my flame thrower!!
Rattlesnake Den Close-up - YouTube
I think I would need to find my flame thrower!!
Spring = Rattlesnakes
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carpriver
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That is one reason I live in the cold north country. Snow snakes don't bite. May see a big old pine snake once it a while but it just scare me and I scream like a little girl.
Engieman
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Wonderful, thanks for sharing.....no sleep for me tonight. And to think I used to hunt with no care in the world growing up in rattlesnake country. Shoot 'em in the head, skin 'em, stretch, salt and tack their skins to a board to cure. I think they call those the good ole days. Now that I'm much older, I'm a first class sissy around snakes.
vonn
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Gotta get a better flashlight for hiking to my deer stand. Hate to run into that many in the dark!
lawandorder
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Shotguns and grenades.
Biker Bill
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Moonman
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Looks like DINNER.
bobelk99
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Only in Arizona?
LVSteve
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I find any supermarket or department store way more frightening on a Saturday morning. They are full of REALLY scary critters.
dougb1946
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We are so short of rattlers in MN that the DNR had to improve their habitate
Timber rattlesnake survey & habitat improvement - Nongame Wildlife Program: Minnesota DNR
Sometimes, you just wonder.
Timber rattlesnake survey & habitat improvement - Nongame Wildlife Program: Minnesota DNR
Sometimes, you just wonder.
Evil Dog
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Would be needing a LOT of shotgun shells.
gtoppcop
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Only good Snake is a Dead Snake. When I run at Camp Pendleton, I'm VERY aware of the paths. I've already seen one. We have 3 types at Camp Pendleton.
Our snow snakes are back in since we are getting 6" + snow!! Keeps the snakes away. Be Safe,
J. R. WEEMS
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This ole boy measured a good 4 feet -- 
LVSteve
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This ole boy measured a good 4 feet --
I don't consider 4 feet to be that big a snake. I know for certain that the Great Basin Rattler gets that big and more as does the Western Rattler. I've photographed a 6.5-7 foot Kingsnake just outside Vegas and found a whopper of a Great Basin Gopher Snake up near Caliente that was all of 6 foot long.
galena
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The guy next place over from me asked his wife: "I wonder why Rxxx shot that rattle snake in the road?" I told his wife: "Tell Rxx the reason I shot that snake is 'cause I didn't have a hand grenade." Enough said.
LVSteve
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Ahh, the snake debate takes its usual course in the lounge.
Pretty funny considering 90% of the human race should be eradicated on litter grounds alone.
Pretty funny considering 90% of the human race should be eradicated on litter grounds alone.
BobC357
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Good ole Diamond Backs. We used to hunt them alive or dead. The university would buy the live ones for antivenom and the others, we skinned and ate. Lots of nice belts, boots, guitar straps came from them. They are darned tastey little critters.
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LennyLames
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. . . and the winner of the nature conservation film award is posthumously awarded to the maker of "Rattlesnake Den Close-up - YouTube."
I do wonder how he filmed that!!
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The coolest thing I ever saw, made me **** my pants. I was digging gravel out of a hillside, I was into a nice clean vein of it and was undermining the hill a little. I was sticking my shovel into the hole under the bank, when baby snakes started falling into my shovel and onto my feet and legs.
Evidently I had dug under a nest just after they hatched. Pretty cool to see, but not expected. I came out of that hole like my pants were on fire. Ed.
Evidently I had dug under a nest just after they hatched. Pretty cool to see, but not expected. I came out of that hole like my pants were on fire. Ed.
BearBio
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Most species of snake are well under 1 ft at max size. Only about 10-15% get much over 2 feet. So, four feet is a pretty big snake in the world of nature (See Sherman Minton's book Giant Snakes or his Giant Reptiles). Might not be big for that species (almost individuals are gonna be younger, etc and get killed before they get really big.
We found a TRULY big glossy snake ( species= Arizona elegans) near Palm Springs at 50"==record in the books was 52". Roadkilled, unfortunately. Found a gopher snake near Parkfield (CA) that I laid down next to and it was longer than I am by 4-6 inches (I'm 6 ft)
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bearfoot
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this happened to me twice, different part of the state, Pa. at a pond, 2 snakes "standing above 4' grass, another area due east of pittsburgh. 2 snakes stood in 4' grass. both times i had a pistol, but know they eat mice/ rats. thinking black snakes, heavyy bodies. i was amazed they can stand on their tails, for a long period of time. in Fla a coral snake between the legs, i was trying to harvest it. really fast, didn't get it.
BearBio
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Some snakes are sight hunters (lizard eaters, mostly) such as red racers, coachwhips, etc. Move with their heads a couple feet in the air.
Poisonous snakes and I have have gotten along just fine for many years.....there is a simple rule the snakes & I live by....don't threaten me and I won't kill you. Cross that line and the snake dies...simple as that. Otherwise it's live and let live.
Key is for folks to recognize the (good guys) non-poisonous snakes from the poisonous ones and then respond if threatened. If not threatened then I and the snake part ways...no harm done.
Don
Key is for folks to recognize the (good guys) non-poisonous snakes from the poisonous ones and then respond if threatened. If not threatened then I and the snake part ways...no harm done.
Don
mc5aw
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I'll take the snakes instead of the alternative ... a vermin population growing at exponential rates unchecked.
