Rattle Snakes

[cowboykjohnson]

If you accidentally get an appendage near the mouth you can still get a venomous bite, even after they are dead. Just a good safety step.
Yep cooler with ice would work, and Sunday should be good for me.

[theGinsue]

If you accidentally get an appendage near the mouth you can still get a venomous bite, even after they are dead. Just a good safety step.
Yep cooler with ice would work, and Sunday should be good for me.

True, often times for hours after they are dead the head can still "bite", plus accidental scratching on the fangs can get you a good hit of venom.

I'm a bit concerned here though. Praire rattler hunting doesn't officially start until 15Jun. From the DOW website: (http://wildlife.state.co.us/Hunting/...tesandFees.htm)

Prairie rattlesnake......Dates: Jun. 15 - Aug. 15, 2009 andJun. 15 - Aug. 15, 2010......Area: Statewide

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[Irving]

I'm not going out to hunt a bunch, just the one that has been hanging out under the compressor they are working on. So, since there is a rattle snake on our property, and I'm going to go kill it, hunting season or not.

I AM interested in a rattle snake hunt when the time comes, but I don't think that there are enough on the property to bother. I'm just going to dispatch this one that we know of.

[mx'r]

Here are some buzzworms that I killed last year in Siebert Colorado. There were about 100 or so in a den that I dug up with an excavator. The largest was about 4.5'.. I ambushed about 15 or so just the other day in Goodland kansas.


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[sniper7]

Here are some buzzworms that I killed last year in Siebert Colorado. There were about 100 or so in a den that I dug up with an excavator. The largest was about 4.5'.. I ambushed about 15 or so just the other day in Goodland kansas.


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damn 100 of them! looks like you got plenty

[GreenScoutII]

I never harm a snake except for rattlers. Hunt it down and kill it Stu, landowners are allowed to shoot problem snakes without license or permit needed. Blast away.....

Speaking of blasting away, there is a certain rooster killing coyote who has a date with my 870 tonight. I'm blasting that son of a bitch if I have to stay up all night to do it.....

[pickenup]

Used to hunt them. Never used a gun. Fashioned a makeshift snake pole out of an old "sturdy" fishing pole. Used it to beat the bushes while I walked. Like cowboykjohnson said, the ones I killed, I would cut the head off and bury it. I did bring some home alive, and kept them alive for a spell. Finally ended up eating them too. They are pretty tasty. Still have at least one skin, and a few rattles.

Had a good THICK pair of leather leggings back then. Even knowing you have them on, it can get your adrenalin going, if one strikes your leg. I was walking through a clearing where I had been throwing them, after I had cut off and buried their head. Heard one rattle and felt him strike my leg. Got my heart to pumping. With NO head, his accuracy was still there.

[theGinsue]

I never harm a snake except for rattlers. Hunt it down and kill it Stu, landowners are allowed to shoot problem snakes without license or permit needed. Blast away.....

Speaking of blasting away, there is a certain rooster killing coyote who has a date with my 870 tonight. I'm blasting that son of a bitch if I have to stay up all night to do it.....

+1 & +1

[theGinsue]

I'm not going out to hunt a bunch, just the one that has been hanging out under the compressor they are working on. So, since there is a rattle snake on our property, and I'm going to go kill it, hunting season or not.

I AM interested in a rattle snake hunt when the time comes, but I don't think that there are enough on the property to bother. I'm just going to dispatch this one that we know of.

Understood!