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It looks happy in the hot sun. Let's keep it that way!

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[QUOTE=68bowtie;9213668]Rattles

I see steak and a belt... :) .. and rattles.

LockDoc

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^^^ Hahahaha

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I see a place to have target practice

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[quote=LockDoc;9213793]I'm with you LockDoc, I see Snake Steak. I hear it tastes like chicken!!

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From long range. I don't want to get near a rattler unless it's on a plate.

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Yeah I didn’t get out of the car lol

I’ve almost stepped on them multiple times, gets your heart rate up…

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Yes it does. Like nothing else! I came close to stepping on one rushing back to my truck for a tool trying to finish up work for the day. That rattler wanted to end my day earlier. It was laying across a RR tie step in the last sun of the day. It's a sharp right from the path onto the step. It saw me coming before I saw it. almost there it struck at me but I was out of range. That mouth was wide open and those fangs were exactly 1.247" long! I started really taking my time when walking that path.

The one that was working it's way into my sister's garage in Taos I killed with a maddox. It was close and only thing I saw to use. I chopped it's head off from behind. Adrenaline city! I skun it, tanned the skin, made nuggets, and my sister saved the rattle. She was going to make me a belt and necklace but passed away before that happened.

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Here is a picture of me in 1971 holding 2 live rattlesnakes. The only problem is they don't get very big in Iowa. The second and third pictures are of a 4 foot one my brother brought me from Northwestern Alabama.

LockDoc

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The one in your right hand is about the size I encountered in my tales. I've seen a garter snake twice in the past week here. Made me jump both times. No, didn't scream like a schoolgirl but I sure did get startled. SNAKE!!!! comes first, harmless comes a bit after :cool:

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I saw a pretty good sized garter snake in my yard which is just fine with me. But that was about a month ago and I haven't seen him since. He might still be around because I have no mice in my barn.

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Thanks for the pic, Leon. I always wondered what a crazy person looked like. :lol:

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note to self - do NOT mess with Leon!

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I caught them as a kid, but now I shoot and there's not much to take a pic of. I have experienced two bites, thank goodness they were dry bites. NOT PLEASANT!!!!!!

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I run the Prairie Spirit Rail Trail about 6 days a week year round. I start seeing snakes sometime in May. I see a lot of massasauga snakes,at least that’s what I think they are. They’re not very big for a rattlesnake but, running up on one stretched out like a stick always increases my heart rate. The small ones look like twigs. So this time of year every stick on the trail looks like a snake. I’ve seen a few copperheads over the last few years too. I much prefer seeing deer,rabbit,squirrels and turtles.

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On the news just last week they said a rattlesnake bite "could" cost you $153,000, and you might survive.

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This winter in Englewood fl were i live in the winter there was a big corral snake on the bike path halfway across scared the sh t out of me but what a beautiful snake

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Back in the late 60s I was mowing yards and walked up on a corral snake in a hedge bush. Shook me up so I looked it up in the encyclopedia to be sure what it was. Encyclopedia, remember those? Corral snakes are not common to my part of the country but there was one.

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One reason I take my morning trail walk at first light is to beat the heat. Also, most of the rattlers are still napping. Or at least moving more slowly.

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1966 Dodge

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Love that truck, but I'd have to get that seaweed off of that paint

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Tremors. Heading to Death Valley.

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^^^:lol:

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Bet that paint dried quickly