I heard 6 bites up there so far this year. Seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Anyone up there been seeing them on the sides of the roads or whatever? Seem to be in one specific neighborhood.
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I heard 6 bites up there so far this year. Seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Anyone up there been seeing them on the sides of the roads or whatever? Seem to be in one specific neighborhood.
There all over the place sunning themselves. 2 weeks ago i was getting ready to step back a few while shooting. Decided to turn around and an easy 4tfter was 2 steps behind me. Didn't even call a cold range, selfish fuker he was.
Would this be a good year for hunting up in Pawnee? When is the season again?
If you're afraid (I see you're from Boulder) just carry a bull snake in your purse. [Beer]Quote:
Originally Posted by rocktot
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season is june 15 to aug 15Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
daily limit 3
total 6
Thanks Wulf. Looks like I missed out this year. Too busy to get it in this time around.
Do you eat them? I have had a couple of rattlesnake appetizers and I liked them.
Yeah rattlesnake is good eating. We used to catch them in the hills around Napa where I grew up. But we didn't have any limits that I remember. Are these prairie rattlers or diamondbacks?
I drive over a 1,000 miles a week across CO/WY. In3.5 yrs, I've only seen one snake on the road. They must be more road savvy out here....
I decided THIS year I was finally going to do some rattler hunting (been trying to get 'er done for several years now).
Would love to come up there and try my hand at it (I may or may not have a place down by Trinidad from one of our members to try out too).
For those who've done it before and eaten the meat, how do you clean 'em?
Cut off the head, skin it, the gut it. Then you can ether pull the backbone out the way I prefer or dice it with the bones in an fry em up.
I chased a few out of our pits at the race track years back (Second Creek @ 96th and Buckley). Occasionally see one flattened on the side of Tower road by Buckley AFB. We moved in to their habitat, not the other way around. They're not really dangerous unless you surprise or corner them. I'm not fond of the way they taste, so I leave 'em alone, as they help keep the prairie rat(dog) populations down.
Want me to show you how to pick one up, the 'right way'? I really don't like that devil green eye staring at me, and the fang 1/2 inch from my thumb. Stupid thing to do, never again. But it was right in front of me, in a perfect straight line over gravel road, I just had to. Never seen a snake do that again. But yea, I am a nature boy.[Tooth] Not sure how much flesh damage you would get in the 2 hours before your $25,000++ anti-venom treatment. The Mohabi desert rattlers are the real bad ones. Seems few people know how to wrap your appendage when bitten. Properly wrapped may mean more localized damage if it squirts in you, but less overall body issues. I don't think Colorado rattlers are that bad, but I'm probably wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by spyder
You could go down to Comanche also. I think you can shoot there, its the same as Pawnee, only hotter, probably just as snakey. There are 2 types of devil snakes in Colorado. Heck, there must be known places around the Springs to hunt devil snakes.Quote:
Originally Posted by theGinsue
When you crazies are "hunting rattlers" are you shooting them? Or trapping/snaring them with a device [+5 crazy] and then killing them/cleaning/eating?
I was thinking about that. I would get a 'trash picker' and maybe test it out on bulls, make sure it works. Then a machette, chop the head and bury it, it can still bite. I don't like those free stick things the 'pros' use. They take way too many chances. I've seen endless stupid things on all the snake/venom/I was bitten shows. Maybe a stiff-rake, pin the head.
No thanks, I'll just keep my distance and let you other macho men go and catch the poisonous and fast reptiles :). They taste OK, I can take them or leave them - but a live one? I'll leave that one. In fact, I dislike rattlers so much that the mountain properties I'm looking at have to be above 9,500 feet so the chance of dealing with them is minimal :).
Wife used to hunt them with a .22 when she was young. She lived in the Keenesburg/Roggen area. Hunted from the bed of a pickup truck. She says there are fields out in that area with hundreds of rattlers.
THeres like two bites (pun intended[ROFL1]) worth of meat on these little prairie rattlers.Quote:
Originally Posted by UncleDave
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Originally Posted by theGinsue
Its way easy. REMEMBER THE FANGS CAN STILL KILL YOU EVEN THOUGH ITS DEAD!!!!Chop off the head at least three inches below the base of the head. bury the head immediatly. make about a three inch cut in the skin starting where you chopped, belly side. Pull the body out of the skin for those three inches. Grap the skin with one hand and the body with the other and pull the skin off. The guts pull out with a wipe of your trigger finger. Shovel works best for a kill tool. iron sights if you insist on a firearm. 22 head shots although head shots with a .45 can be quite gratifying. Snake chaps recomended. What i need to get is a nose chap for my pup!!!! Its not woth the risk off impaling my dumb ass on these little prairie rattlers for two bites, I chop and bury. Too bad they are so dangerous they are beautiful and eat rodents.
PS Yu can really impress your girlfriend if you come into the house with the rattler deheaded holding it by the tail with it still writhing!
PPS The chinese swear the best health and aphrodesiac benefits comes from speed skinning the snake with it writhing and going sushi on its ass!!!
Got these on my place within the last 8 - 10 years. This is what I have left after giving some to the grandkids for their show and tell thing at school.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...Rattles002.jpg
Guess this little fellow thought the welcome mat was out for his enjoyment
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...9-12-08002.jpg
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Although these critters are good for getting rid of chipmunks, mice and other pests, they are a threat to us folks so the 12 gauge is usually used to "dispatch" em. Used a .45 Auto once and even with four nice holes in that rattle snake, he continued to slither away. Use a 12 gauge!
Wow, that is almost 'cool'. The ones up in Ft Collins are greyish, and have slit devil green eyes. They look satanic, angry, mean, ancient, evil like they are from the netherworld. They don't have that cute round eye like non-poisonous American snakes. Devil snakes. I would NOT pick them up ever again. That devil eye will get to you![Twist]
I was talking to a neighbor yesterday and they said that there has been 6 reported already this year in our neighborhood. That's up from previous years and not since this neighborhood was mostly undeveloped hillside was there that many around here. Now I'm checking the yard before I let the dog out and I don't leave him out very often.
I've used a trash picker to wrangle snakes before, it works ok. Better to get a real snake handling tool or pin it with a stick and grab it by hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by rocktot
trapping licenses aren't worth it in CO. You just hunt them while they're sunning and shoot, chop, or bash themQuote:
Originally Posted by KestrelBike
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Originally Posted by spyder
Shotshells by CCI.
I have these in .357 and they would shred a snake.
They're a bit pricey but they are fun as hell to shoot.
Here's the link:
http://www.cci-ammunition.com/produc...specialty.aspx
Sounds great! Now I just need to teach my dog to shoot a hand gun. [Tooth]Quote:
Originally Posted by 45XD