Killed a rattler

[GATreeGrower]

 On the right you will see the implement used



 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

That's a pair of boots....and maybe a wallet to boot. 

[Mooseherder]

That's a Big-Un!

[Chuck White]

Wow!

That's one reason I like the North, one less thing we have to be watching out for.

We have enough problems without them!

Seen my share of rattlers in my travels, but never one that big!   

[Texas Ranger]

I know I have posted these before, but, Jeff just loves them.



 



 

[GATreeGrower]

Nice TexasRanger! 8)

[red oaks lumber]

what was the snake doing that it had to be killed?

[GATreeGrower]

It chased me onto the bed of my truck...at that point I decided to kill it.  Gave it to a guy who does trapping around here, hopefully he can use it for something.

[Al_Smith]

Wrong place wrong time evidently .

I got nothing against snakes but if every a poisonous one ever showed up on my property he'd never make it off .I value my grandchildren more than any snake .

[clww]

Must be some warm down there for the snakes to out and "chasing" people already. I killed one copperhead up at the cabin last year. I feel the same as Al-near the buildings is too close to children and the dogs.
How many rattles?

[GATreeGrower]

Yeah I agree Al Smith...my dog runs all over my woods....and that rattler no doubt would have done him in.

[GATreeGrower]

12 rattles

[clww]

That's quite a few. Many times, once they get a big bunch of jewelry hanging off their tail, they snag and break off.

[justallan1]

I haven't seen that size rattler since I left northern California.
In this part of Montana we have bunches of them, just not that big and I kill every one of them I see. We have cattle, horses, dogs, pets and kids around the ranch and just can't take a chance.
Allan

[coxy]

awsome  keep up the good work        only good snake is a dead snake

[gwilson]

I kill any poisonous snake I see. I don't like knowing that they are hanging around. But a black snake Ill let go especially if he is away from the house. Felling a tree last summer I looked up to meet a big one coming down the trunk out of a knot hole...Makes your heart skip a beat.

[Corley5]

OMG    I'm glad critters like that don't exist up here  8)

[rooster 58]

    Got a timber rattler that size two years ago. He won't bother my dog ;)

[celliott]

This is why I like where I live. The only natural things that'll try to kill me is the weather.
And we don't have tornados, earthquakes are fairly rare, and I actually like the cold and the snow. I'll stick to the north  :snowman:

[GATreeGrower]

When my aunt and uncle from east TN come to visit and quail hunt, they dress up like commandos to go in our woods.  And I keep the woods pretty clean.  Most of the time I only see snakes crawling away from me.  This guy decided to turn the tables I guess.

[drobertson]

Mercy sakes! big un'  that one would have left a mark for sure,  we had what was believed to be a pigmy rattler hit my mini schnauser,  never saw the snake, just a possibility the vet suggested. small bite pattern with the typical resulting damage effecting the bite area, lost all the hair with the skin turning blackened. It took awhile, but she recovered.

[Texas Ranger]

I think the pygmy, along with copper heads, bother me the most, small enough to be unnoticed just laying there.

[Busy Beaver Lumber]

When I lived in West Milford New Jersey, there was a state park called WayWayYanda State park. The State of New Jersey had concern over the ever dwindling timber rattler population, so in their infinite wisdom, they released 1000 of the critters into the state park.

Wawayanda State Park is a 34,350 acre state park in Sussex County and Passaic County in northern New Jersey. The park is in Vernon Township on the Sussex side, and West Milford on the Passaic side. There are 60 miles (96 km) of hiking trails in the park, including a 20-mile (32 km) stretch of the Appalachian Trail and the dens of thousands of timber rattle snakes thanks to the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry.

Only two big problems, nobody told the snakes to stay inside the state park limits or where those limits might be and within two years the population on my property increased exponentially, much to the demise of the poor misguided snakes who came to visit my property. Even had one crawl inside my garage and give need to a changing of my shorts after dealing with him. One year alone i killed almost two dozen of them, for the same reason as others mentioned, because they were not going to kill my daughter of our family dog if I had any say in the matter.

Second problem was that the park was frequented often by people from Bergen and Passaic County and also from Newark and the surrounding area where they would not know a rattle snake from an earth worm, nor would they expect to encounter one since they were very scarce, if not unheard of,  in their home towns. Bet you can guess how some of those encounters turned out. Another fine example of  "Were from government and here to help you".

[clww]

What an idea: release "extra" poisonous snakes in a public-access area. That's bureaucracy at its finest!
Thinking even more on this, why not add viscous dogs and a toxic waste dump there, too?!?

[Al_Smith]

Well I suppose they could import about 500 mongoose the deal with the snakes .The weasels would probabley get the snakes then breed like rats and before too long they'd have a million mongoose the deal with .

I sometimes wonder what in the world some of those environmentilest types are thinking .People in general do not like poisonous snakes for a reason .

Just look at history .The people in Ireland made Patrick a saint .Now weather he acually drove the snakes out of Ireland I can't say because obviously I wasn't there .Non the less good old St Pat gave us a day of celebration when everybody is Irish .On that day I'm Al O'Smith . ;)