Rattlesnake

[Rogue Bay]

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That’s a cool looking rattler. What species is it?

 

[fishslap]

Looks like a pygmie to me. We get a lot of those down here. They are fiesty at times, usually sleeping on the trails at 0500.

It isn’t, not native to Colorado. It’s a prairie rattlesnake.

 

[Rich M]

It isn’t, not native to Colorado. It’s a prairie rattlesnake.

I saw what i think was prairie rattler in WY. Ornery critter.

 

[LongWayAround]

How did it taste??

I used to have a really old cookbook with a few rattlesnake recipes. "Prairie Shrimp" was one of them. I felt like that was a pretty accurate description of the couple I have eaten.

Not much going on but they weren't bad on the grill.

 

[HbDane]

That’s a cool looking rattler. What species is it?

Southern pacific I believe

 

[Sooner]

Eastern Oklahoma western diamondback. He was huge pushing 6ft and its head was as big as my fist.


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[fishslap]

I saw what i think was prairie rattler in WY. Ornery critter.

Most I’ve met stand their ground and are aggressive.

 

[LongWayAround]

While this dude is not a rattlesnake, he was doing his best impression and clearly pissed off that I almost stepped on him.

 

[T-Rex]

I really don't know why I opened this thread.... I hate snakes!

 

[sbaker0029]

I really don't know why I opened this thread.... I hate snakes!

Same and my dumbass is following it. Looked at it before bed last night had a dream with snakes in it.

 

[Meshnasty]

They really came out here about two or three weeks ago. I saw 7 (4 bull snakes, 3 rattlers) on the way to and from the gun smith and it’s only a ten mile drive.

This one may have made me emit an audible noise when I almost stepped on it on 10-24 last year. Hopefully it gets colder sooner this fall.

 

[bridgerbenson]

While this dude is not a rattlesnake, he was doing his best impression and clearly pissed off that I almost stepped on him.

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I’ve been rattled by bullsnakes more than rattlers. Ran outside one evening after dark to shut off a sprinkler I forgot about. In shorts and barefoot and ended up with my feet all tangled up in a 6’ bullsnake. glad no one witnessed that. Got surprised by a big rattlesnake once though in a prairie dog town that left deep fang marks and venom on my leather boot but didn’t get through.


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[43.6N]

They really came out here about two or three weeks ago. I saw 7 (4 bull snakes, 3 rattlers) on the way to and from the gun smith and it’s only a ten mile drive.

This one may have made me emit an audible noise when I almost stepped on it on 10-24 last year. Hopefully it gets colder sooner this fall.

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gorgeous bull snake there. He must have been close to 6’.

My daughter is fully obsessed with catching as many lizards and snakes as she can this summer.
She was really sad when I ran over a bull snake with her in the truck the other day.

She calls them “cuddle-critters”
I’ve always thought the Idaho flag should have a snake on it. She’d probably agree.

 

[jmsdad]

Bottom of the Grand Canyon on my R2R hike last year

 

[Drenalin]

Nope, nope, nope… my sanity in Texas brush is only maintained by wearing snake gaiters and the truth that snakes don’t actually exist (if you don’t look too hard, that is).

I tell my daughter, if you don't look for them you'll never know they were there.

There's a campground I go to a few times a year here locally. The old man that runs it catches timber rattlers in the campground all the time (he says about 7 per year) and says he just turns them loose out by the entrance to the campground. Which happens to be one place I pick berries during the summer, and walk by pretty often when I'm that way trout fishing. I tell myself he's just catching the same one or two snakes over and over, but I see 2-3 up there per year.

 

[omicron1792]

They get big in Alabama too.

 

[Wheels]

Might as well throw this up for entertainment purposes.

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[HairyScandinavian]

Here's one that was in my pole shed at camp. I picked up that sack of concrete and he was under it. What almost got me when I was handling this one was the 2nd smaller one hidden just behind that bag at the bottom of the pic. We keep a flat nose shovel down there, not for digging but it's a great snake tool.