Can you imagine if we had used the shotgun?? We wouldn't have had anything left!Quote:
Originally Posted by kidicarus13
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Can you imagine if we had used the shotgun?? We wouldn't have had anything left!Quote:
Originally Posted by kidicarus13
North of Castle Rock, last year .Attachment 44291
So it thinks its a COAR-15 Moderator? Sorry, had to say it. The little ones are nasty quick little buggers huh?Quote:
Originally Posted by HBARleatherneck
We have a few that lurk about here on Green Mountain. Usually two or three dogs a year just go over for a sniff and get hammered in the side of the face in their own backyard. Face really swells up, sometimes they make it... sometimes they don't. Have a lot of kids following the green belt paths to an elementary school. If I see one I'll take a shovel to it. Out in the wild I'll leave them alone.
We've got stupid little garter snake out front somewhere and the wife is hysterical. Can't imagine if it was a rattler, she'd probably burn the house down.
When we lived in Lakewood Alyssa would always catch the garter snakes.
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In Florida, we had all sorts of nasty little snakes pretty much everywhere. I was not a fan. Mostly Moccasins. When I used to kayak, they would be draping the banks and swimming with me. Between them and the gators, I did my best to not capsize.
Now that I am out here, I know very little about rattle snakes. Do they just sort of hang out in the grassland, or are they mostly in the rocky areas? Also, are there any prohibitions on returning them to the great snake pit in the sky? Do they have a particularly active time of day or season? My little boy has no common sense or fear yet, so I worry about him finding one and poking at it when we go out into the wild spaces around here.
Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) Venomous
https://www.ar-15.co/uploads/9/7/8/6...61/8470544.jpgClick Image for more photos.Description: Pit on each side of head between and slightly below the eye and nostril; large rattle on tail; small scales covering most of top of head with one large scale over each eye; pattern of 30–55 dark gray or brown blotches on the back; dark bands on the tail. Head, body and tail are greenish gray to brown; tail bands similar in color to body blotches. Belly grayish or white. Young look like miniature adults.
Habitat: Prefers rocky canyons and open prairies with an abundance of small mammal burrows. Suns on southfacing hillsides with large rocks in spring and fall; roams open prairies in summer, when it is often nocturnal.
Diet: Feeds on lizards, rats, mice, gophers and young prairie dogs.
Size: Length up to 56 inches
Natural History: Females produce litters every other year; 5-18 young per litter, born in spring, summer or fall. Prairie rattlesnakes are very common found over most of Colorado with an elevation range up to 9500 feet.
http://www.coloradoherping.com/species-guide.html
I can only comment from my experience. I've run into 2 rattlers... both on Lookout Mountain in Golden while I was running Chimney Gulch trail. Both instances happened in August. The first time I was running with my dog at about 7am and took her off leash as the single track is difficult to run with her. A buddy of mine was in front of me and stopped dead in his tracks as a rattler was coiled up in the middle of the trail trying to warm up in the sun (they are slow and lazy in the mornings). Sure enough my dog ran over it and by the time I called her she ran back over it again. Needless to say she was on her leash the rest of the run. Second time was about mid-day and going around a switchback a rattler was half on/half off the trail. Luckily it was the non dangerous end of the snake and I just took a wide path around it and kept going. I hardly take my dog on trail runs in the summer time anymore, just don't want to risk it. I've heard that dogs (if small - average size) have about 1 hour to get them to a vet before things get tricky. Just be careful in low grass, brush and rocky areas... which is most of Colorado .Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyEgo
I hunt Rattlers when I go out to Hoyloke, The bull Snakes get blasted too just not as much because they keep the rattler pop down. I hate friggin snakes!