Rattlesnakes while hunting

[Dunning Kruger]

Anyone got a tip on a good pair of snake boots for hunting?

Yeah, wear these ones!

 

[Westxhunter]

ROFLMAO!

 

[beagle001]

My first experience made me pucker quite a bit. We were hunting SD and working along a flat top and there was a small dog town a few hundred yards away. Super windy (you’d never expect that in SD ) and that little sucker let us get to about 2 feet before coiling and rattling and reading us the riot act. Of course we must have looked like parkour champions jumping back and bouncing off the rocks and trees. He was an ornery little shaver- after gathering our wits we tried walking around him and he got closer to us. He received some rocks after that and struck a few of them.
I probably wasn’t a very effective hunter the rest of that day. I jumped and shrieked at every rustling leaf and clump of grass I came across.

 

[Dunning Kruger]

I probably wasn’t a very effective hunter the rest of that day. I jumped and shrieked at every rustling leaf and clump of grass I came across.

Oh, i know that game! Almost step on a rattler, then for several days every bit of dry grass i brush with my leg that makes a remotely snakey noise has me convinced i could win the gold medal in the high jump.

 

[Dunning Kruger]

While we are on the subject of rattlers, im heading to unit 1 idaho on tuesday. Has anybody ever seen rattlers there? Do they exist there? Ive never seen one east of sr395 in washington, so im thinking no?

 

[LaSportsman]

No close encounters hunting but many with water moccasins fishing in Louisiana swamps and cypress lakes. See them in a tree always once the boat is too close and you're worried about him dropping in the boat.

Bill Dance encounters a snake

 

[Brauee20]

I don't have any pictures of the venomous snakes I ran across while living in Florida, but I do have a picture of two six foot or so yellow rat snakes making more snakes.

We always tried to leave them to themselves but I killed one moccasin when it was incessant on a confrontation in the yard after following us out of the woods.

 

[Simeod]

A Mojave Green while out in the Sonoran Desert. See so many, don't often stop for photos. Mostly Sidewinders in this stretch of the desert.

 

[Gr8bawana]

A Mojave Green while out in the Sonoran Desert. See so many, don't often stop for photos. Mostly Sidewinders in this stretch of the desert.

My sister and bro-in-law live just outside Tombstone and they get a couple of Mojave Greens every summer in their yard in addition to the other rattlers they find every year. No thanks.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

I have a few new recruits ready in the batters box,a few more weeks
and they will be snake killing machines!

 

[HuntTalk Freak]

My family hunted them when I was a kid for their skins and rattles, I still have a handful.
Never cared for it much, scared the jeebus outta me.
Somewhere I have a pic of my late uncle holding a big live one around his neck with a big shit eating grin on his face, he was a wildman.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

My family hunted them when I was a kid for their skins and rattles, I still have a handful.
Never cared for it much, scared the jeebus outta me.
Somewhere I have a pic of my late uncle holding a big live one around his neck with a big shit eating grin on his face, he was a wildman.

Some of us have no common sense...

 

[jabber]

I have ran across quite a few while hunting in South Texas, some survived, some didn't.

I came across this picture quite a few years ago, so don't know the story behind it.

 

[88man]

Enough!

 

[backcountry_sassn]

If I see a rattle snake and don’t kill it, my 5 year old gets upset. No because he’s afraid of them, but because he likes to eat them. They are pretty tasty grilled!

 

[Elkmagnet]

For a guy who can't hear rattlesnakes I sure am lucky at finding them.
This was 6 days ago.

 

[rtraverdavis]

I have ran across quite a few while hunting in South Texas, some survived, some didn't.

I came across this picture quite a few years ago, so don't know the story behind it.

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The stuff of nightmares.

 

[El Jason]

Saw this guy today.

 

[MTGomer]

On the coldest morning in April it was about 55 degrees. I wasn’t even thinking about snakes. As we were driving in the middle of no where to go for a hike there was about 40 vultures circling. The area we were in is heavily used by illegal aliens, so I thought it could be a body, and if not that, maybe a big dead head buck. 20 steps out of the Jeep, I stepped on this guy.

I got back in the Jeep and never figured out what the vultures were for. Oh well. Whatever it is was already dead.

Later that day we saw this guy.


Just needed a tortoise to make a reptilian trifecta.

 

[Mudder]

Pictures are the last thing on my mind when I happen across a Rattler. I got bitten once and have a healthy respect for them. I was hacking at brush, stuck my brush hook under the bush, and came out with a Pacific Rattler hanging off my glove. I didn't even get a full dose and it was bad. I was allergic to the anti-venom and the Docs spent days trying to suppress the venom and not kill me with the anti-venom.

I was walking up Mailbu Canyon (behind the famous Malibu beach) when two naked, very nicely endowed, young women come running by screaming Rattlesnake. They had been nude sunbathing on a large flat volcanic rock. I walk up to the rock, mostly black with some grey splotches and was looking for the Rattler. I found myself looking it right in the eyes from around 18 inches. The coloration of the Rattler made it nearly invisible on that rock. The first time I'd ever seen a mostly black Rattler.

I kill them when I find one on a well traveled trail, anywhere else I just keep my distance.

I had a Black Mouthed Cur female who could smell them and would point when she found one. She wouldn't point much of anything except snakes, which was fine by me.