Rattle snake tips.

[packmule]

Are rattle snakes aggressive or is it more self defense when they bite people?

They're fairly timid unless cornered or ticked off. Totally different demeanor than the old territorial stubtails. Most ppl just associate them with being dangerous quicker than other species..[for instance, look at this cool red, yellow and black lil' worm...ain't it cute!]

 

[arwaterfowler]

They're fairly timid unless cornered or ticked off. Totally different demeanor than the old territorial stubtails. Most ppl just associate them with being dangerous quicker than other species..[for instance, look at this cool red, yellow and black lil' worm...ain't it cute!]

I've only seen one Coral snake in my life. Being a neurotoxin, I heard its pretty bad.

 

[packmule]

I'm starting to see more of them around yaupon thickets. Oddly enough the last 3 I've found have been coiled up in ground scrapes.

 

[Retterath]

Thanks a lot musket man I'm not going to be Able to sleep tonight because I will probably keep thinking they are in my bed and i will have dreams about them. Not quite that bad but close.I hate those things to death and I have never seen one. I just hate snakes only seen little Gardner snakes. I grew up in a area that didn't have rattle snakes but hunted the western part of nd and they were there but never ran into one. I have been in sd for a year now and everyone tells me they are all over just across the river and I bow hunted and rifle hunted over there last year several times and never saw one,but got so nervous I bought a pair of danner snake boots and hardly wear them cause I love my kenetreks so much. But when I come upon one out hunting there probably won't be any deer left in the county I'm hunting. Thanks for a great thread though.

 

[Musket Man]

Dont worry Retterath, from the info shared here you should be fine unless your sleeping next to a pond or creek.

 

[trkytrack2]

Hellsfire....in Colorado if ones attacking you, your screwed if it's not between June 15th and August 15th because their protected any other time. And your only allowed to kill three in one day and have six in your possession at a time. You also better have a small game license in your possession. Thank you yuppies! Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!!!

 

[Musket Man]

And your only allowed to kill three in one day and have six in your possession at a time. You also better have a small game license in your possession.

That they know about.......SSS!!!!! When I run into a rattler the last thing on my mind is the date, how many I have killed that day or if I have a license. I claim self defense! lol

 

[packmule]

No reason to SSS...you just gently brush them out of the way. The ravens and magpies may find them and eat them for you.

 

[Musket Man]

Dont worry packmule I have no intention of digging a hole to bury a rattler! lol

 

[packmule]

I didn't really think it would happen. Since we can't kill our locals ones you have to perfect the technique of brushing them aside.

 

[Musket Man]

They are protected in TX too?

 

[packmule]

Timber rattlers are....which is weird considering how many there are in our area.

 

[Dearhunter3450]

Thanks a lot musket man I'm not going to be Able to sleep tonight because I will probably keep thinking they are in my bed and i will have dreams about them. Not quite that bad but close.I hate those things to death and I have never seen one. I just hate snakes only seen little Gardner snakes. I grew up in a area that didn't have rattle snakes but hunted the western part of nd and they were there but never ran into one. I have been in sd for a year now and everyone tells me they are all over just across the river and I bow hunted and rifle hunted over there last year several times and never saw one,but got so nervous I bought a pair of danner snake boots and hardly wear them cause I love my kenetreks so much. But when I come upon one out hunting there probably won't be any deer left in the county I'm hunting. Thanks for a great thread though.

I am afraid to admit I am afraid of garden snakes, and I mean the kind of fear that invokes girlish screaming and jumping into the air lol! I have blown multiple spring turkey hunts due to snakes.

 

[HuskyMusky]

snake boots and pistol w/snake loads?


tell me again why we need poisonous snakes on earth?


anyone get annoyed watching these animal shows where they relocate poisonous snakes from residential areas to "wild" areas probably just a few miles away?

 

[Dearhunter3450]

Any load is a snake load .40, .308 or 12 g all very effective lol! I couldn't agree more HM! Only good snake is a dead one.

 

[packmule]

I'll ensure the safety of our resident king snakes.

 

[Dearhunter3450]

I'll ensure the safety of our resident king snakes.

Only good snake is a dead snake or a snake that eats other snakes!

 

[Musket Man]

I have no problem with non poisonous snakes. What are king snakes?

 

[packmule]

Do a youtube search of "king snake eats rattler" or " blue indigo eats rattler".

 

[canvsbk]

I keep asking myself why I'm reading this thread ...I hate the bastards.