That time of year...Be careful

[Muddyboots]

I'm not sure about diamond backs but I believe female timber rattlers down here have a light colored stripe running down the middle of their back.

I must be female, when I see a diamondback I get light colored stripe down my back too.

 

[deweyduck]

I like when people say "relocate them." This happens mostly with snowbirds who also like to leave food out for the coyotes and javelina. I myself suggest the five step process:
1.) Shoot the hell out of it.
2.) Chop its fricken head off.
3.) Chop it up into pieces.
4.) Burn the pieces.
5.) Bury the ashes.

I say: shoot, shovel, shut up!

 

[762x51]

i've only seen a handful of rattlers in NC thankfully. i've run into more copperheads than i care to remember though. had one in the garage last year. we've got 3 kids under 5 so we have to keep an eye out. mostly all we get are garters. i just leave them alone as we also have a bunch of those yellow striped lizards with blue heads.

 

[nmbarta]

I found one in my reloading room in my house a couple years ago....sneaky little buggers, it had to go all the way through the house to get there. Lucky for me me it was a nice one...about a foot away from my foot when I saw it. MT though, so it was just a Prarie rattler.
Since it was nice enough not to bite me I took him for a little cruise down the road, figured if any rattle snake needs to be breeding it was this little guy.....pretty mild mannered. Creepy though for sure.

 

[338 dude]

I hear they taste like chicken!

I have eaten rattle snake many times it is very good

 

[NRLArt]

Relocate them? Relocate them to HELL! Western Diamondbacks around here. I hate rattlers. One got my dog and even though she got anti-venin, she didn't make it. After that incident, I show them NO mercy!

 

[Ol' Red]

Here in PA you need a permit to kill 1 and you have to sex it and measure it before killing it. My WY guide thought I was pulling his leg.

Do you have to know what sex it identifies as also?

 

[Coldfinger]

One more reason to love the north!

I'll deer hunt in the cold but I won't turkey hunt in Pa where I got these pics. I see a turkey vulture carrying a small timber rattler a week ago. These pics are last year in McKeane county Pa.

 

[wv270wsm]

Rattlers are pretty decent table fare. Just have to be sure they haven't bit themselves before handling on of them . Had a buddy several years back got poisoned by a dead one with no head . He skinned it out with no gloves on to make a hat band and had a cut on his finger . Venom traveled through the cut . Wasn't as bad as a direct bite but still was very painful and a day in the hospital.
Another buddy says " best way to kill a snake is to chop its tail off , right behind the head"

 

[codyadams]

Yup.........

I love Wyoming. Y'all keep your snakes, ticks and chiggers, I'll keep my bears and wolves ha ha!

 

[Ol' Red]

I like when people say "relocate them." This happens mostly with snowbirds who also like to leave food out for the coyotes and javelina. I myself suggest the five step process:
1.) Shoot the hell out of it.
2.) Chop its fricken head off.
3.) Chop it up into pieces.
4.) Burn the pieces.
5.) Bury the ashes.

1.) Chop off head
2.) Gut snake - gag at the awful odor
3.) Chop it in pieces
4.) Cook pieces over charcoal
5.) Bury pieces in stomach beside the BBQ beans and potato salad

 

[Coldfinger]

I say: shoot, shovel, shut up!

Shoot em and enjoy an ice cold

 

[P7M13]

Danner Logger boots and a shovel.

 

[levers4life]

Got this little guy just off the back porch last spring. Seen more snakes in general the last two years than I have in several previous.