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Started by kopfjäger, March 23, 2019, 01:12:43 PM

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kopfjäger

March 23, 2019, 01:12:43 PM
They discovered a couple under the house.  ;)

https://youtu.be/Xxn8CFyc9SA
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stopintime

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March 23, 2019, 01:28:35 PM

   Not clicking  [wasn't]
252,000 km/seventeen years - loving it

Bick

#2
March 23, 2019, 03:43:23 PM
There’s rattlesnake cakes, there’s fried rattlesnake, there’s grilled rattlesnake...   [drool]

The other, other other white meat.
It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.

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triangleforge

#3
March 23, 2019, 06:54:48 PM
That's a whole lotta Nope Rope.
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DarkMonster620

#4
March 23, 2019, 07:05:42 PM
 :o
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herm

#5
March 23, 2019, 08:13:25 PM
Just a few snakes...
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kopfjäger

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March 23, 2019, 08:31:11 PM
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Stella

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March 24, 2019, 10:22:26 AM
Quote from: stopintime on March 23, 2019, 01:28:35 PM
   Not clicking  [wasn't]

Same   :P


I know there are piles and piles of them hibernating in some of the open spaces I visit in the colder months.  Just this morning it was nice and warm and I wondered if any would be out of their dens warming up in the sun during our walk.  Fortunately didn't see or hear any.   
"To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites." ~ Robert Heinlein

herm

#8
March 24, 2019, 06:05:41 PM
Stepped on more than a few rocks with these guys underneath back in the day.  :P

That's why the boots had 14" leather uppers...
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty, and the pigs like it...

triangleforge

#9
March 24, 2019, 06:11:38 PM
While we don't have a lot of buzzworms up here at high elevation, I've found my share in other places around Arizona. Mostly Arizona Blacks, which aren't highly aggressive, but will get your attention if you get too close. Like the time I was fumbling down a slot canyon and reached for a root to steady myself - which seemed a bad idea when it started to rattle. My hiking partner, an accomplished nature photographer & videographer, took lots of pictures and then asked me if I could step a bit closer to get him/her to rattle again while he shot some video. Well, who wouldn't say yes to such a polite request?  He got his video, and everyone went on their way, no worse for encounter.

The Mojave Greens I've seen have a reputation bad attitudes and a really nasty neurotoxin in their venom, but most of my encounters with them were when they were out in the open and apparently had just fed, so were in a generally forgiving mood.

The biggest rattler I've ever seen was in the Monongahela NF in West Virginia, a great big fat guy at around 3' who'd also just fed. Good thing, too, because the three people I was hiking with stepped right over him/her like a stick, with me at the back of the line noticing that something about that log was just a little hinky.

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Monsterlover

#10
March 24, 2019, 07:09:50 PM
I watched both videos and read all the posts.

This whole thread makes me uncomfortable.
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herm

#11
March 25, 2019, 04:22:16 PM
The "good" thing about Rattlesnakes is that they will give you a warning. Water moccasins, Cottonmouths,...not so much

:-X
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty, and the pigs like it...

Monsterlover

#12
March 25, 2019, 04:27:53 PM
I've been told older rattlers will often dry strike if they're only feeling somewhat threatened. Young ones are too young to know to save the venom and they strike like crazy and get your boot all venom soaked.

From a guy that was a national park worker I met in a state park while he was rock climbing in his off hours.

He said these things would sun themselves on the cliff faces and pretty much ignore you while you climbed.

He said what really bothered him was spider webs and millions of spiders going nuts when he cleared the webs.
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST    **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer.  A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.  A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist."  -Louis Nizer**

kopfjäger

#13
April 08, 2019, 04:15:25 PM
 Not a rattlesnake, but hell yeaah.

https://apple.news/AnUeKpuvCTbqzKJ3Y5gOKUQ
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Monsterlover

#14
April 09, 2019, 05:06:26 AM
:o
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST    **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer.  A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.  A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist."  -Louis Nizer**
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