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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: wheatlander on August 30, 2011, 10:05:44 PM

Title: WARM WEATHER AND SNAKES
Post by: wheatlander on August 30, 2011, 10:05:44 PM: LOVE HUNTING THE SAGE BRUSH FOR THAT 4 POINT MULEY WITH MY SMOKE POLE JUST WONDERING IF ANYBODY ELSE IS NERVOUS ABOUT LATE WARM WEATHER AND BIG NUMBERS OF RATTLERS NOT DENNED UP YET!!!GOD FORBID I HAVE TO HUNT THE FOREST :'(
Title: Re: WARM WEATHER AND SNAKES
Post by: elkhorn on August 31, 2011, 06:54:21 AM: Yup! Last year was the first time I ran into any. (Four in one day!) If it's hot they'll be out there.
Title: Re: WARM WEATHER AND SNAKES
Post by: jollyskwala on August 31, 2011, 08:44:16 AM: I ran into a dozens and dozens of them on DNR land north of Sinlahekin Wildlife Area. It was insane actually. I was focused on getting closer to some deer and not listening. was glassing and moving from tree to tree. I then "woke up" and heard a rattle. I stopped and then listened. Well I was surrounded by rattlers. Literally. It took me an hour or so to walk out of there! Made it w/o getting bit but wow.
Title: Re: WARM WEATHER AND SNAKES
Post by: jnevs23 on August 31, 2011, 10:40:14 AM: I wear snake gaiters when I hunt sage in sept. Almost stepped on a fat rattler couple years back in knee high grass. It hissed at me before rattling, I jumped about 6 feet straight in the air.