In Honor of 3 timber rattlers this ol' 1860 sent to serpent heaven in 2021

[Ugly Sauce]

Well, they're in a better place.

Non-venomous snakes get a pass. Venomous snakes do not. Had a neighbor get hit on his hand by a copperhead. Literally took years to recover and I don't want that to happen to me or my family.

One of my friends got bit by a rattler, took him a while to get to the clinic, he had all sorts of neurological problems for something like eight months at least. For sure you do not want to get bit.

 

[Blackpowderwarrior]

I purchased a new rattlesnake gun today, a Stainless steel 1860 army ive been dreaming of for a couple years now. I will update you guys when it gets here.

 

[hawg]

The place I lived before I moved back up here I came as close as I ever have to being bit by a timber rattler and a water moccasin. I killed the rattler and waited out the moccasin.

 

[CraigC]

One of my friends got bit by a rattler, took him a while to get to the clinic, he had all sorts of neurological problems for something like eight months at least. For sure you do not want to get bit.

No way! Snake "apologists" always talk about statistics and it's true that not many people die from them. However, living with a bite ain't no walk in the park. My neighbor saved his hand by not applying a tourniquet but his kidneys and liver paid for it.

 

[woodnbow]

Well, they're in a better place.

Non-venomous snakes get a pass. Venomous snakes do not. Had a neighbor get hit on his hand by a copperhead. Literally took years to recover and I don't want that to happen to me or my family.

Hah! Snake heaven, gotta love it.

 

[hawg]

My dad got bit on the hand by a rat snake. Even though they're not poisonous it took months to heal.

 

[Jackrabbit1957]

Snake bite from any flavor of snake can be infectious. My sister in law got bit on the heel by a small rattlesnake, she went to the ER about 4 times for complications over the following 6 month's.

 

[Choctaw]

Very nice grips!

As with most of you, non-venomous snakes are always welcome around my place. But I have had three family members bitten over the years by rattlers. I kill them all along with copperheads and water moccasins.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Very nice grips!

As with most of you, non-venomous snakes are always welcome around my place. But I have had three family members bitten over the years by rattlers. I kill them all along with copperheads and water moccasins.

Are the water-heads and copper moccasins also edible? Again, the rattlers are good, but thinking about it I suspect that BBQing them probably over cooks it. Fry it in butter and salt if you ever get the chance. !!!

Any cap-N-ball revolver would be a fine (fun) snake gun. (especially with rattlers on the handles!) Both rattlers I et I shot their heads off with a .44Mag rifle. !

 

[Miguel Loco]

I'm with you Craig. Snakes are cool, especially Kings.... very docile. But as many Diamondbacks as we have around here, a few less isn't going to hurt. They are territorial......and so am I. My wife got bit in the leg last year while walking. Wasn't a good situation.

 

[Atavar]

Well, they're in a better place.

Non-venomous snakes get a pass. Venomous snakes do not. Had a neighbor get hit on his hand by a copperhead. Literally took years to recover and I don't want that to happen to me or my family.

You might be better to educate your family about snakes rather than try to kill all of a species in your country.

 

[44 Dave]

Snakes, spiders, mice etc., some people just don't do well around these "scary creatures".

 

[CraigC]

You might be better to educate your family about snakes rather than try to kill all of a species in your country.

Educate them? You think people get snake bit because they don't know anything about them? My neighbor who was bit had no idea the snake was even there. He was pulling weeds in his garden. I'd LOVE to know what "education" you think would've prevented it. Do you have a lot of venomous snakes in Minnesota???

 

[hawg]

You might be better to educate your family about snakes rather than try to kill all of a species in your country.

Education? Who's going to educate the snakes?

 

[Choctaw]

Are the water-heads and copper moccasins also edible? Again, the rattlers are good, but thinking about it I suspect that BBQing them probably over cooks it. Fry it in butter and salt if you ever get the chance. !!!

Any cap-N-ball revolver would be a fine (fun) snake gun. (especially with rattlers on the handles!) Both rattlers I et I shot their heads off with a .44Mag rifle. !

I'm sure they are but I've only eaten rattlers. I've never thought of eating the others. Hmmmm... For snakes that need a good killing I just use whatever is handy. Hoes, rocks, boots, 45-70 (that was spectacular).

 

[hawg]

You can eat water moccasins. They say they don't have much taste and are stringy. They smell too bad for me to even try.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Education? Who's going to educate the snakes?

The University of Snakes and Lizards you silly.

 

[hawg]

The University of Snakes and Lizards you silly.

 

[Miguel Loco]

You might be better to educate your family about snakes rather than try to kill all of a species in your country.

Believe me...we're educated. No one is out to drop napalm on the entire Arizona desert to eradicate them. Dispatching one or two a year that are trying to make my yard their territory is NOT going to "kill all of a species in your country". Besides, they taste good and their skins will be around decades longer when I use them for holsters and knife sheaths.

 

[Hanshi]

The only rattlers I've eaten were a couple of diamondbacks in Georgia back in the 1960s (I didn't kill them). Never killed one on purpose but found out too late two I'd accidentally run over. I lived around canebrake rattlers for 62 years in Georgia. They have particularly toxic venom. We had them in the front & back yard, on the porch and they stil don't bother me; I just watch where I step. I even used to drag them off the road so others wouldn't try and kill them. Copperheads too. I caught a couple of them and kept them in a terrarium over the summer and released them in plenty of time to fatten up before winter. One of the copperheads was the one that bit my dog. We watched her, kept her inside and she got well quicker than I thought she would. One deer hunter in our county near us got bitten when he climbed down out of his stand to meet up with his son and nephew for lunch. They immediately called 911 but he died before they could carry him out to the ambulance; it was a canebrake. Rattlers are on the protected list in many areas; they are not sexually mature until 6 to 12 years old. Plus they only give birth every 2 to 3 years. We would have been buried in rodents if it hadn't been for them. I do not kill snakes, period.

 

[Blackpowderwarrior]

All snakes I come across get the same treatment.... Snake heaven!

 

[Ugly Sauce]

when I use them for holsters and knife sheaths.

That's right...a rattler skin backed bow is very cool too. I have a couple with fake snake skin backing.

 

[eastbank]

there is a difference between going out of your way to kill snakes and killing snakes that invade your living space, in the wild they will live and around my living space i kill the venomous ones.

 

[CraigC]

That's right...a rattler skin backed bow is very cool too. I have a couple with fake snake skin backing.

Oh that's my favorite place for copperhead skins. I'd love to have a bow backed with it.

 

[woodnbow]

Claire Conley once wrote about bird hunting with Elmer Keith. Seems Keith nearly stepped on a rattler. Conley says he jumped straight up in the air, pulled his .44 and shot it three times before he landed…