This one didn't live to get my dog! Seems we might have a problem here. 31 years on this place, and I've k**led....now 8 rattlesnakes. Two in the past month. Both of them big ones. 4...

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Seems we might have a problem here. 31 years on this place, and I've k**led....now 8 rattlesnakes. Two in the past month. Both of them big ones. 4 foot, or better.
At least this one didn't get a strike at my dogs, or horse!

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

archie bunker wrote:

Seems we might have a problem here. 31 years on this place, and I've k**led....now 8 rattlesnakes. Two in the past month. Both of them big ones. 4 foot, or better.
At least this one didn't get a strike at my dogs, or horse!

That's a big one. Is it dead in this picture?

archie bunker Loc: Texas

byronglimish wrote:

That's a big one. Is it dead in this picture?

Yeah. It just didn't know it. I stretched it out but it kept trying. Snakes are strange.

Iliamna1

Have to be careful! Even a dead rattler (or moccasin or copperhead) can still get its fangs in you and inject venom. How, I do not know, but suspect it has to do with reflexes present for a while after death. Those are some nasty creatures!

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

archie bunker wrote:

Seems we might have a problem here. 31 years on this place, and I've k**led....now 8 rattlesnakes. Two in the past month. Both of them big ones. 4 foot, or better.
At least this one didn't get a strike at my dogs, or horse!

What'd ya blast him with Mr. B. ?

Ranger7374 Loc: Arizona, 40 miles from the border in the DMZ

archie bunker wrote:

Seems we might have a problem here. 31 years on this place, and I've k**led....now 8 rattlesnakes. Two in the past month. Both of them big ones. 4 foot, or better.
At least this one didn't get a strike at my dogs, or horse!

We shoot then in the head. I h**e rattlesnakes. Use snake shot myself in a .357 what did you use?

You know the Democrats have to change their masscot to a rattler. Then I could say another Democrat bites the dust. Oh well I guess we have to put up with the jackass

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

archie bunker wrote:

Seems we might have a problem here. 31 years on this place, and I've k**led....now 8 rattlesnakes. Two in the past month. Both of them big ones. 4 foot, or better.
At least this one didn't get a strike at my dogs, or horse!

I used to work at Arrowhead Christian Conference Center up Old Waterman Canyon above San Bernardino.

Rattlesnake heaven! I took care of the 5 wells and the sewage treatment plant.

The well highest on the mountain was only 100 yards or so below the "arrowhead" that half the town and Arrowhead Water is known for. I had to walk to it sometimes and it was unusual to NOT be warned by unseen rattlesnakes in the brush off the road.

The groundskeepers k**led them all the time.

I'd find them at the sewage treatment plant from time to time and squash 'em. They'd go there to have babies and the ones I always found there were small...and if there was one there were more.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Ranger7374 wrote:

We shoot then in the head. I h**e rattlesnakes. Use snake shot myself in a .357 what did you use?

You know the Democrats have to change their masscot to a rattler. Then I could say another Democrat bites the dust. Oh well I guess we have to put up with the jackass

I don't h**e 'em a bit. In the winter when I lived in Socal, mucking in tin and woodpiles, I'd occasionally turn one up...all cold and immobile.

Those ones I'd carry off into the bush and let go.

debeda

archie bunker wrote:

Seems we might have a problem here. 31 years on this place, and I've k**led....now 8 rattlesnakes. Two in the past month. Both of them big ones. 4 foot, or better.
At least this one didn't get a strike at my dogs, or horse!

Funny you mention that. A friend of mine recently moved from New Mexico to Nevada, and one of the things she said she doesn't miss is the rattlesnakes. She started having a big problem last year.

JIM BETHEA

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

archie bunker wrote:

Seems we might have a problem here. 31 years on this place, and I've k**led....now 8 rattlesnakes. Two in the past month. Both of them big ones. 4 foot, or better.
At least this one didn't get a strike at my dogs, or horse!

This is the time of year snakes seek mates, so there are either fewer females around their normal hunting grounds, or something is attracting females to your area. Here it's copperheads, and the same phenomena is occurring - normally I get 2 a year, I got three already - all males.

Big dog

archie bunker wrote:

Seems we might have a problem here. 31 years on this place, and I've k**led....now 8 rattlesnakes. Two in the past month. Both of them big ones. 4 foot, or better.
At least this one didn't get a strike at my dogs, or horse!

Yup, that’s a biggun. Looks like a shotgun blast ...?

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

archie bunker wrote:

Seems we might have a problem here. 31 years on this place, and I've k**led....now 8 rattlesnakes. Two in the past month. Both of them big ones. 4 foot, or better.
At least this one didn't get a strike at my dogs, or horse!

Wow, glad you got him & not the other way around, especially for your dogs. Do your dogs generally stay away from snakes or does their curiosity get them in trouble? Plus a nice interesting change in topics.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Wolf counselor wrote:

What'd ya blast him with Mr. B. ?

12 gauge. It was all I had at hand. Everything else is locked up since the granddaughter is here.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Tiptop789 wrote:

Wow, glad you got him & not the other way around, especially for your dogs. Do your dogs generally stay away from snakes or does their curiosity get them in trouble? Plus a nice interesting change in topics.

This time, they backed off when they heard the sound and came running when I called them. The bulldog got bit a few weeks ago, so maybe he learned his lesson.