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Timber rattler
My 44 magnum with number 8 shot hand loads work good on those
That would end my fishing for the day:yikes
Could make some nice hat bands out of that rascal
Good eating...
I think I'd move my Marijuana patch!
He weren't bothering me and I didn't have anything handy to whoop him with so I let him pass. He was in the National Forrest headed into Torrence so it wasn't a populated area, if it had been around the house somewhere he would have surely died. I don't mind a rattler near bad as I do a cottonmouth, cottonmouth would have died!!
Dang, you let some fine eating get away.
It's funny John, right after you posted this a driver friend of mine sent me a pic of a big ole Diamond Back. He was picking up a load of rough cut lumber over in Ok not 30 miles from my home town. They had this lumber stored in a shed in what they call pack's. Lift operator was bringing out the last one and Larry was up on his trailer and saw it. Operator didn't know it was up there. Said that was the 3rd one in 2 weeks. Had the other ones in the freezer to have a cook out.
what state was this in? someone at work here in Memphis swore up and down they got a rattle snake out from over by the airport. I didn't think they were in west TN or NMS.
The one I posted was in Grenada lake bottom, just on the edge of it. Seen more this summer than I have ever seen before.
Amazing. I hike all over the place and never seen one. Thought cottonmouth and copperhead were the only two. Ain't scared of them as long as I see them first--which isn't always easy.
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When I was working on the railroad between Meridian and New Orleans, we saw timber rattlers, or canebreak rattlers, down to around Hattiesburg. South of that it was all eastern diamondbacks.