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."
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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