Ken (Catskin)
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 02:16 PM |
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Snakes
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A few photos in case anyone was wondering...
Pretty cool for a northern guy...
Thanks JH and Mark.
| leupy |
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 03:15 PM |
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Looka like nine heart attacks if my wife was anywhere in the county. Maybe I should get one.
| Tim Lewis |
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 03:40 PM |
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Looks like 9 pr of shitty breifs for me. I've only seen one in real life and that was about 35yrs ago.
I'm sure with my hearing now, I'd have to be right up on'm to hear them, or get bit. Either way we're talking trouser chili here.They sure look nice stretched out though.
| BEACON |
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 05:14 PM |
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I've seen many of them down here in Florida, from the 6" pygmy's to the 6+' eastern diamondbacks. They scare me shitless. I hate'em. Every damned one of them. Moccasins are about as bad. Not as common, but just as hostile, and they seem to have a 'tude, too. I tend to view snakes in a Biblical context, which is bad enough, but then there's these big bad sumbitches out there, and it really makes my hair stand up and my skin crawl. I doubt if I can adequately convey in the written medium the true depth of my animus toward them.
| USAF_HUNTER |
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 05:59 PM |
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And to think this year my buddy and I got the stupid idea of getting the bird shot loads and to go looking for them. Man are we young and dumb. Then again we did just get back from overseas at the time and fealt incinvable.
| CALOK1 |
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 07:39 PM |
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IMO there are only 2 kinds of snakes.
Round snakes = BAD
Flat or without heads = good.
cowboy:
| USAF_HUNTER |
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 07:49 PM |
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I like turning the bad kind into the good kind. Granted when we go and try, we dont see any.
| Walter |
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 07:53 PM |
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what do you do with them?
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John-Henry
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 08:04 PM |
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You Idiot:
Somehow or other the biggest Mojave ended up overlooked, and by the time that I found it it wasn't fit for anything except the trash can.
Not to mention the other several that are still in my feezer.
How the hell did THAT happen?
John-Henry
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Ken (Catskin)
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 08:11 PM |
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Really? we looked around the night I skinned and didn't see any more out!?! A few of those were 50 inchers. There may have been a couple in the freezer granted, that thing was packed full to the gills. Gads, I thought nine was plenty <bg>
Oh well, gives me a project for next time.
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Mark P
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 08:37 PM |
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I'm sure there will be more next year. If I'm able I'll try to catch some live and save them for the Rondy. Dump them out on the floor of the cave and watch the festivities.
"Oh boy. You sure you can skin griz?"
"I can skin 'em as fast as you can catch 'em"
"hehehehehe"
| Bob Mc |
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 09:00 PM |
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I can take them or leave them, except when they want to share a camp with me as happened the last 2 summers. In that case I go by the “dead snake is a good snake” rule.
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Ken (Catskin)
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| Mon Feb 04 2008 10:59 PM |
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hehe fun stuff. Mayhap we can catch a badger too!
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Mike Harter
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| Tue Feb 05 2008 10:17 AM |
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What's all this negative energy surrounding these hapless Rattlers? Snakes are good things. They eat rats and mices and other nasty things, provide pretty skins for boots, belts, hat bands, etc., and provide a tasty meal for those who knows how to cook 'em.
Now Cottonmouths; that's sometihing else entirely. Those nasty critters are downright aggressive, and I give 'em a wide berth.
I spent 3 years at Fort Hood, TX tearing up thousands of acres of prairie land and never saw a single rattle snake; not the first. And I was looking. It was a great puzzle.
| DanS |
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| Tue Feb 05 2008 05:01 PM |
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Yea, when I saw those rattler skins, I was tempted to get me a cowboy hat and swipe one for a hat band.
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Ken (Catskin)
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| Tue Feb 05 2008 05:22 PM |
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You should have swiped one, I'll send ya one if you want. You could cut out panels and inlay em in a stock instead of checkerin, then make a 17 Rem -.125" short and call it a .17 Rattler
| BEACON |
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| Tue Feb 05 2008 06:01 PM |
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I haven't had any occasions to meet any, but seems I read that the Mojave is the meanest and most dangerous of the rattlers. Seems like I read it has the most potent venom.
Any truth to any of that?
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Stormin
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| Tue Feb 05 2008 06:28 PM |
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i believe if you get touched by one of those green mohaves, you can bend over and kiss it good by. The venom goes straight to the lungs and you basically suffocate;
A good snake is any snake not in my local... as I don't share spaces with them and I am higher on the food chain than they are...
if we keep a couple extra mice or other rodents... consider it coyote food.
| bwshooter |
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| Tue Feb 05 2008 07:32 PM |
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We have the more docile timber rattlers here. They get up to six foot long though. As a matter of fact I have two dried and ready to apply to the back of my bow limbs. They really add flair and natural camouflage to recurves and longbows. After I get them on my Black Widow I'm going to put copperhead skins on my longbow.
| DanS |
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| Tue Feb 05 2008 09:41 PM |
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Ken,
Your filling my head with ideas!!!
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Mark P
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| Wed Feb 06 2008 07:29 AM |
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Beacon, I've only had one really tense situation with a rattler and that was a Mojave. It was mid-day and I came 'round some brush and met him. I then reversed direction, backpedaling and dumping 9mm rounds at my feet. One of which luckily connected. That snake chased me 10-15 yards and fast too. That was my first experience with rattlers and it's taken me a bit to realize that was a fluke more than anything.
I've never had one act aggressive towards me since. As long as I don't mess with them they don't mess with me. They get the death sentence if they're around the house though. I tried relocating some of them, but they come back.
At first I was shooting them. Then as I got used to them and found they weren't all like the first one I experienced, so I just bop them in the noggin with whatever is handy. It's why I keep an 8 iron on the front porch.
I even got one like Clint did in Three Mules for Sister Sarah. Waved my boot out in front to coax it out then whacked it with the grass cutter.I don't worry about them much. I just don't want them in the dog kennels and I'd rather not have them under the stairs. I'd guess that's where most folks get bit. They don't see them and nearly step on them so there's no warning.
"There's lots of things in this 'ole world bring a po' boy down.
If you leave 'em be you'll save yourself some pain.
You don't have to live in fear, but you best learn some respect;
for those rattlesnakes, painted ladies and cocaine."