Floorless and rattle snakes

[isu22andy]

Curious how you floorless guys run your shelters with rattle snakes around ? Or do you not camp in ares with rattlers ? I know your odds are unlikely , but I have dumb bad luck sometimes. If Im going to drop that kinda coin on a tipi I want to know all the ins and outs. Thanks

 

[*zap*]

Around here when its cool but the snakes are out they like to warm up by a campfire and may cuddle up next to a sleeping bag thou that might be a rare occurrence. Them liking to be near a fire is not rare if people are not constantly there. Copperheads, timber and massanagua rattlers. I would think a nest would keep them out.

 

[william schmaltz]

I think of this all the time so hopefully you get some decent response. Some day I plan to start going back to the stomping grounds in ND to hunt the badlands again and them creepy little monsters freak me out.

I'll camp next to bear sign 11 out of 10 days before camping within miles of known rattle snakes. F that noise

 

[Tod osier]

Curious how you floorless guys run your shelters with rattle snakes around ? Or do you not camp in ares with rattlers ? I know your odds are unlikely , but I have dumb bad luck sometimes. If Im going to drop that kinda coin on a tipi I want to know all the ins and outs. Thanks

There are places that I wouldn’t camp without a nest because of them. We were in the frank church a few years back in sept and I was really glad to have the nest. We camped in an one area and had multiple snakes in camp. One cruzed in when we were hanging out and I had to fling it out of camp with a hiking pole and one rattled at the dog the next day. I wouldn’t camp in that spot again, so probably not a big deal, just pick your spots better. The higher in elevation you are the less there are.

 

[isu22andy]

They dont bother me , Ive hunted around them in SD and Wyoming and only really ran into a dead one and 2 live ones , but its enough to make a guy think before he hops into the floorless game. Snakes love heat, and I can image one slithering into a nice tipi with a stove right under a bag .

 

[pchrisla]

Great, I just got in my new SO Cim for my first western hunt in wyoming this year. Placing order for a half nest tomorrow lol.

 

[JigStick]

pack in a honey badger and chain it up in camp

 

[*zap*]

Personally, I am planning to use a nest around here if it gets over 50 degrees during the day. Poisonous snakes are thick in my area. I do not need any problems that can be avoided. Most copperhead bites around here are on the arm/hands. I been struck twice in the fall while bowhunting but never had the skin broken, luckily. Both of those were copperheads.

I was showing a vet a stand location on a property I had leased and he grabs a stick and charges me....I was like wtf...then he beats a copperhead that had just missed my leg and I never even saw it in the leaves and was looking up.....so that's 2 hits that did not break the skin and a miss. I figure my luck has run out....

 

[sneaky]

Personally, I am planning to use a nest around here if it gets over 50 degrees during the day. Poisonous snakes are thick in my area. I do not need any problems that can be avoided. Most copperhead bites around here are on the arm/hands. I been struck twice in the fall while bowhunting but never had the skin broken, luckily. Both of those were copperheads.

I was showing a vet a stand location on a property I had leased and he grabs a stick and charges me....I was like wtf...then he beats a copperhead that had just missed my leg and I never even saw it in the leaves and was looking up.....so that's 2 hits that did not break the skin and a miss. I figure my luck has run out....

He was trying to knock some sense into you. Maybe he should have used a bigger stick lol

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[CApighunter]

Thank you for solidifying my choice to go with a floored shelter... Not exactly a big fan of snakes.

 

[*zap*]

He was trying to knock some sense into you. Maybe he should have used a bigger stick lol

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[jhm2023]

Hunt in Alaska. No snakes to worry with. In all seriousness I'll take bears over snakes any day, growing up in Louisiana gave me a healthy respect for those slithering critters.

 

[NDGuy]

Some day I plan to start going back to the stomping grounds in ND to hunt the badlands again and them creepy little monsters freak me out.

Lol it's all I could think about last year bowhunting whenever I would be near rocky terrain or down in the tall grass by a stream we were camping near. Gah!

 

[5MilesBack]

I'd rather deal with snakes than the constant barrage of flying bugs and/or ticks.

 

[WoolyBugger]

I've only been on 3 hunts out west but never had a though of buzz worms til now. Just don't get them here besides garter snakes. We were hunting at 10k in CO, do they hang out that high?

 

[5MilesBack]

We were hunting at 10k in CO, do they hang out that high?

Oh yes! They are literally around every tree and rock. Not only them, but the deadly recluse widow redback spiders that are everywhere! Be afraid.......very afraid.

J/K........the highest I've seen a rattler was right at 7k feet. But I'll be danged if I haven't seen more spiders at 11k feet........even running on top of the snow, than I have down low in farm country.

 

[Kootenay Hunter]

I like how floorless shelters remain floorless by calling a separate floor a nest....is it not just a two-piece lightweight shelter then?

I don't hunt near rattlers, but rodents can be a big pita too. Creepy crawlies and bedtime don't mix for me.

 

[sneaky]

Or he had PTSD. Post Traumatic Snake Disorder

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[WoolyBugger]

Oh yes! They are literally around every tree and rock. Not only them, but the deadly recluse widow redback spiders that are everywhere! Be afraid.......very afraid.

J/K........the highest I've seen a rattler was right at 7k feet. But I'll be danged if I haven't seen more spiders at 11k feet........even running on top of the snow, than I have down low in farm country.

Lmao I never notice them but we also don't really have spiders here in IA to worry about either so I'm not accustomed to looking for them. Its a pretty non threatening state haha

 

[Beendare]

IME, The main factor in snake encounters is they are at lower elevations.

In many decades of hunting and backpacking....I've only seen one rattlesnake at the higher elevations we typically hunt up above 7,000-8,000'.

The odds of having a Rattler slither inside your floorless shelter in the mtns is so close to zero its not even worth
talking about.

I've had Varmints like mice and shrews sneak in....... with them scurrying around over your bag at night. The heavily used campsites are typically worse than in the remote spots...but it happens.