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 | DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada 
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2004-05-22 86579
The shovel won.
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 | Billy
Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 975 Southeast Oklahoma 
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2004-05-22 86580
Looks like 9 rattlers and a button? ....
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| DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada
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2004-05-22 86586
I didn't think to count. ....
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Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4302 Southwest MiddleTennessee
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2004-05-22 86589
Looks like dinner to me! ;o) ....
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 | NHDaveD
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 71 New Hampshire 
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2004-05-22 86597
DRankin, Nice job! How the heck did you get that before it struck? Those suckers are pretty darn fast! I saw a video of one striking a ballon, popping it, and then striking it a second time before the remnants hit the ground. Do you have many of those in your part of Nevada? We have some dens of Rattlesnakes left here in New Hampshire but, because of their scarcity the state Fish and Game department keeps their whereabouts a secret.
Keep up the good work!
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| DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada
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2004-05-22 86621
Dave, It was already dead.... well, mostly dead.
That funny turn the body takes in the picture about 4 inches down from the head is where I whacked it with the shovel and severed the body with only a chunk of skin holding it together.
Not only that, I didn't take the pictures for nearly an hour and it was still rattling weakly and trying to bite!
It's only the second one I have seen on my land in 5 years. One on the front steps, and one on the front porch.
When I buried it about 90 minutes after I "killed" it it was still moving, opening it's mouth and unsheathing it's fangs.
Tenacious? I don't think I want to dig it up and check. ....
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Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1413 Northern Michigan 
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2004-05-24 86721
You shoulda ate him. When I got my jungle training back about 35 years ago, I got introduced to the fine art of cooking snakes over a campfire. They're good! Stick some branches with a "Y" on each side of the fire and have a cross stick to make a rotisserie. Skin him, chop off the head, split him open and wrap him around the stick. Baste with a little butter if you have it. Texture is slightly stringy and tastes almost like chicken breast. ....
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Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 762 Kingston, NY
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2004-05-24 86729
A grocery store here (Adams) had frozen rattlesnake a few weeks ago. Nope - couldn't get the wife to entertain the notion of cooking them. Yooper - thanks for the recipe, I read it off to my wife. ....
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| DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada
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2004-05-24 86733
I wanna know what he was doing out in the jungle with a stick of butter in his pocket.....
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| yooperpete
Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1413 Northern Michigan
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2004-05-25 86774
Like I said, butter is optional. Actually, the fire was most often optional as well but that doesn't make for a good recipe. Fire also brought some unwelcome visitors (VC by the hundreds). ....
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 | Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7252 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada
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2004-05-25 86778
Yooper, it's funny how the fire drew the VC into your position.
My father used to deliver fire (Napalm) to them, he said they always ran AWAY just as fast as those little rubber shoes could carry them.
Maybe it was just your cooking that they were coming for.
LOL.
Best of luck. ....
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| DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada
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2004-05-29 87166
GEEEEZ!! Another one!
One week later.... to the minute!
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| ncrunch32
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 762 Kingston, NY
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2004-05-29 87172
DR, do you have these snakes angry cause you are driving that RTV900 all over their property? Maybe they are out to get you! :) ....
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Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 192 Lucerne Maine
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2004-05-29 87176
Man DRankin,those are some serious snakes. That one looks like a good 3 ft. and a nice gerth on em too. What do ya do with em? Any thing with the skin or meat? ....
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| DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada
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2004-05-29 87178
She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed as declared the interior of her abode a serpent free zone. This includes any and all serpent products. I just bury them.
This one looked like it had a recent good size meal on-board.
Two years ago we had a rather rude Gopher snake give birth right close to the house. You would not believe how small a crack or crevice those babies could wiggle through.
This is NOT a scenario I wish to repeat with baby rattlers.
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| Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7252 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada
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2004-05-31 87329
Mark, I'm told that they make a device like those ulta-sonic rodent repellers but they give off a much lower frequency, probably sub-sonic, that is geared towards repelling snakes. Since snakes depend on hearing and vibration to detect prey they are kept well back.
Best of luck. ....
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2004-06-07 87935
Hey DR - my computer let me view the pic where your post sezs "the shovel won" -- but I don't see any of the story. my computer won't let me view the 2nd pic (awww) Hopefully this is the end? no more snakes this weekend? Bt ....
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| DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada
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2004-06-07 87939
I need to send you a new computer.
I tip-toed around all day saturday..... but the only thing that rattled was the change in my pocket. ....
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| ncrunch32
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 762 Kingston, NY
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2004-06-07 87942
There have been some copperhead sightings on my property lately. Next time I see them I will try to get some pictures. ....
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| yooperpete
Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1413 Northern Michigan
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2004-06-07 87948
DR
If you won't eat them, you should try selling those snakes. There used to be a shop called "Rattlesnake Jakes" in Keystone, SD (just outside Mount Rushmore) in the tourist trap area that sold skins, fanges and rattlers. He had a real nice shop. ....
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2004-06-07 87979
You could always test your faith with them. ....
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| DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada
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2004-06-07 87999
Thanks, I already did that.
For fifteen years I walked some mean streets and nasty alleys and dealt with people meaner and more treacherous than any snake and I have the scars and lumps and broken bones to prove it.
We can discuss it further if you have the backbone to come out of the bushes and say who you are. ....
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Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 566 ct 
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2004-06-20 88938
Drankin - my wife & I are laughing are sphinksters off ....
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2004-06-20 88987
DRankin
I here ya on walkin some bad streets. Funny though how one shepard brought into a situation changes the attitude of a fella that was going to KICK 3-4 of our butts a minuit earlier.
I am petrified of anything that sworms and has a stinger. I can handle snakes (I see you can too)!
I will be on the tractor next weekend (shivering with fear) I have to cut anouther field and get it turned over.
I busted into a ground hornets nest last year while rototiling but was in a air conditioned cab of a skid steer
They were quite mad, and I would hate to see what would of happened if I was on the New Holland open to the elements.
Good luck with your snakes. (Ps) you have those real mean bees down by you dont ya? Brrrrr I hate summer!!!!!!! I got goose bumps just talkin about it! ....
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