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rattlers everywhere be careful.
Ohh how I hate snakes.
Pretty.
I would rather have snakes than rodents and overrun with bugs. [Coffee]
I certainly understand how they keep things in check but it doesn't make me hate them any less.
I would like to cook a rattle snake.
Friggin snakes creep me out!
Actual season is in June through July right? I have my small game license this year!
I want to go rattler hunting. Anyone want to invite me?
did you skin it?
You can come with me, as long as you're okay with me not knowing anything about hunting rattlers.Quote:
Originally Posted by kidicarus13
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Originally Posted by Irving
Personally I think they are pretty bad ass! .........not saying if one was outeside on my deck he woupdent see the other end of a 12 ga. I'm just saying I respect them and am not afraid.............somewhat haha
Snakes are good. I like snakes. I can understand killing one with the children near it though.
If you get a chance try it Rattle snake is awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by glock21
Do I need a plug in my shotgun to hunt rattlesnakes?
Would the Joe Biden rule work on snakes in town?
Would the muthafukin Joe Biden rule work with muthfukin snakes on a muthafukin plane?Quote:
Originally Posted by waxthis
Its that time of year again boys and girls.... Rattlers are out and about.
My son was just watering the trees that are in our yard. A rattler squirmed out of a tiny hole(less than a quarter size) right by him. This was less than 10 feet from our front door. Well now the snake is chop suey. My shovel slices and dices, it is made by ridgid but thinks its a ginsue.
A shotgun will put too many holes in the skin ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
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!
I hate snakes too, but we have a bull snake that's been living in the front yard the past couple years. We've left it alone, and it's left us alone thus far. I wish it would get hungry and eat some of the damn bunnies, and I'm guessing it will likely keep rattlers and small rodents away.
Tonight at about 630pm my kids were driving me nuts. I said go pick up rocks. Not 5 minutes later they all come yelling that there is another rattlesnake by the house. My shovel is starting to have a lot of notches on it.
He was laying in the grass on top of my leach field. There really is no rhyme or reason to where snakes are. People say there is, but I have seen them everywhere out here...anyway.
Drop by when you have time. There's a bunch down the block, cute little youngun's. So cuddly.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyEgo
Snakes control rodents, BIG time! If they are rattlers and near kids or dogs they are toast, if they are bold imitators, let them go. Most snakes are good, don't be too judgemental (but if there is any doubt don't hesitate to take action).
We have only had 2 here at the house and think it is because of the high number of bull snakes. Rattlers get dispatched immediately when we find them, bull snakes get pass as long as they are not within the wifes AO.
the only good snake is a dead snake
This guy was on the driveway into the Boulder Rifle Club last October..
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He looks pissed. Did you use wrong gate code?Quote:
Originally Posted by def90
sent from my electronic ball and chain
I grew up in Southern AZ. Lots of Diamondbacks. Everyone of them that came in the yard met the shovel. When I was about 9, I was riding my bike around the desert and I heard a rattle. Being a dumb boy I tracked down the source and hit it in the head with a rock. I put it over my handlebars and brought that rattler home to mama. She totally freaked and rushed me inside where I had to stay for the rest of the day until my Dad came home and gave him the shovel treatment. The snake never moved so surly he was dead, but my Mom is still a bit mad about it to this day.
These days I don't have to deal with many snakes here in suburbia. There is one snake that I see in the yard from time to time and the best I can tell he's a Lined Snake or something.
Hollohas sounds like a Gardner snake... I need to go hunt down a rattle snake or 2 this year! Didn't work out last year... Or the year before... Or the year before!!! Someone point me in the right direction when the season opens!