Rattle snakes

[runamuk]

  I'm in on a rattlesnake roundup, seen a few in the E-burg area, I know of another spot by a popular fishing    lake, we could do a combination fishing/snake roundup

I am not leaving the main roads until it freezes again.....hate rattle snakes....

you guys are crazy!

 

[firefighter4607]

If anyone wants to share their 'spot' , I am interested in a few.
Thanks

No one is talking, I'm trying myself

pjb3 I will let you in on my sceret..... From about now until Sept-Oct. I drive the local roads about 2-5 hours after dark. The snakes will come out on the road to warm up on the surface. I will drive places where we have seen and killed them lots of times before. I have never eaten them.

Once you find one on the road, I will walk up to them with a 22 long rifle and point the barrel fairly close to there head. Now you sway the barrel back and forth slowly the snake will start to follow the barrel once his head is following it bang dead snake. Some time when we are traveling down the roads we run into one we will use a shovel, rock or whatever we have in the trucks to kill them.

[KopperBuck]

Here's one from near our place south of Pilot Rock last week.

That looks like a good one, but I've only seen a few wild ones in my life, that was a few to many.  I was south of Pilot Rock this weekend with my dog, I was stepping lightly but was more concerned for her.  Are dogs more immune to bites, or is there a shot you can give them if bit?  I was going to research this before taking her back in snake country this year again now that its warming up.

I can speak to this pretty well as my father is a vet. You'll need an initial vaccine and then a booster about 4 weeks later. Then after that typically you'll only a yearly vaccine. Canines are definitely more susceptible to the effects of the venom. If you're going to be around it, go with the vaccine.

I have an uncle in Burns, OR, who trains bird dogs on rattlers. Pretty neat deal.

[Kowsrule30]

Only gotten a few..... Not what I'd go out looking for imo!!!!!       

[pjb3]

Sent ya a PM Firefighter

[Mathews Heli m]

 

Oh ya,,, I always see rattlesnakes around Banks Lake.

i have seen a few up on top of steamboat. almost stepped on one., and he struck at me. good thing he was smaller so he didnt get me

[Snopczynski]

Rattle snakes are dicks!

[boneaddict]

Always loved the sign as you enter the park....beware of Rattlesnakes.    I also have seen several on steamboat.  Another good spot is just North of there in that canyon where the other boatlaunch is...can't think of it, but its the main one with a road up it.  Its full of them.   

[KopperBuck]

Another great spot is down on the Grande Ronde.

[splitshot]

  most of the rattlers in the othello area are 15-30 inches and are afraid of any activity, maybe cuz of cows and horses and humans.   mike w

[boneaddict]

This weekend

[shoot-em-dead]

Go look around Badger MT park in Richland. One of the city workers told me he kills quite a few right in the park. He got one that was about 20 inches the day I was talking to him. He said it was a bigger one. I have yet to see one in the wild.

[Idabooner]

This weekend

You got more guts than I got to crawl down that hole with three of them laying there.

[boneaddict]

It was safer than confronting my wife outside......

(that pic was from Friday before I came up by the way)

I still want to go back to see if thats a hot den though.   Its in the right position but the substrate is all wrong.   I bet that main tunnel up under the tree that is collapsed is a good wintering ground for them.   Beams and rock and dirt and needles.   If it has any sort of exit hole......

[boneaddict]

Theres always someone watching.......