Rattlesnakes -0- Jene Ingram No#6 Drop Point -8-.

[Biggerhammer]

Snakes are out thick this year, we have killed 29 Rattlesnakes around a friends house in the last week or so. Took a walk this evening and killed 8.

 











A few from the other day that just finished drying.

[mkcj]

Where do you live....So I can stay away well done though

[Bean Counter]

You throw the knife at them? I've killed a few myself all via bow and arrow.

Do you eat them? I've heard its good..

[Biggerhammer]

I just pin their heads down with a snake stick and cut them off just behind the head.

[b23]

Do you bury the head or just kick it to the side or?  I've heard you should bury the head of poisonous snakes when you cut them off because they are still potentially dangerous but I don't know if that's BS of truth.  I, personally, never really wanted to get close enough to find out. 

After you skin them out like that are they worth anything or are you just doing it so you can use them for personal use?

I'm with mkcj, can you please tell us where you are finding all these damn things so I can make sure I avoid those areas like the plague. lol

[quadrafire]

Nice looking snakes 

[andersonjk4]

Nice! Looks like you had some fun.  Do you use something on the skins to dry them, or just let them air dry? 

[Biggerhammer]

We cut the heads off and bury them, we don't want local pets getting into them. If it were just me I would leave the snake where I killed it after I buried the head. My friends the one that wants the hides, I have no idea why. He dries them on his streach boards with salt.

If you have eaten Rattlesnake the. you know it's like tough chicken. I've eaten it on occasion.

[floatinghat]

That is a lot of snakes for a small area.  I get the pet thing you have to be careful. 

One thing to watch going forward is going to be mice etc.  Snakes eat a good number of the vermin.  Years ago we cleared and area of snakes near a friends new house.  The critters just about took over for the next few years.  When stomping around the boonies I leave them alone, near a house you have to do something.

[Biggerhammer]

The Bullsnakes can have all the mice they want, plenty of them. All the Rattlesnakes get the knife.

[b23]

Do you mostly see them up on the asphalt road/s a little after sunset or are you out walking around in the brush looking for them?

[Biggerhammer]

Do you mostly see them up on the asphalt road/s a little after sunset or are you out walking around in the brush looking for them?

We find them all over! On the asphalt, stretched out on dirt roads in the rocks & sage. The roads are a guaranteed in the evenings, there's no rhyme  nor reason for everywhere else. There all over, in the orchard grass, by the horse feeders. Most off the snakes we kill are after 5pm, never really tried it during the day. We are working all the time.

[mountainman]

Every fourth or fifth year the population grows. Cleaned many dens out over the years growing up in the Methow Valley. Every father's day we go to some favorite denying areas and catch dozens in several hours. Counts over the years run in the hundreds! Only good viper is a dead viper! Next weekend! Yup, red neck father's day!! Nice snakes hammer

[Biggerhammer]

A couple more from this afternoon.

[RadSav]

My friends the one that wants the hides, I have no idea why. He dries them on his streach boards with salt.

They make some pretty wicked looking traditional bow backing!  Have a friend in Oregon that makes a good living making self bows with rattlesnake skin incorporated into them.