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Saw that once in days before cameras on phones but the boat was still strapped to the trailer.

Not a Timber rattler....thats one of the few I'd recognize....besides, their range stops in east Texas.

Might as well have been...we had fun back in those days!

Looks much like the timber rattlers I've seen around home. They often, especially immediately after shedding have alot of green to them.

Ricks rattler had diamonds towards the front, the timber has chevrons throughout....

let me try my google-fu....




I MIGHT have found it Rick...A Mohave Green...( which explains the color...)

If so you are one lucky SOB....one of the deadliest snakes in America, having a combo of hemotoxic and neurotoxic venom...

Poobs here's a little one from your neck of the woods.
(years ago)




Another one from the same trip.




I have pics of rattlers phuggin' here somewhere.

That sum beech looks a little too riled up for my comfort...

Nothing a load of 8's won't handle

Fück!

I saw him when I was still hunting slowly down a little ridge. He was off to my left about 15 yards hauling ass right with me in the same direction. He got out in front of me and coiled up. Damn things scare the chit out of me so I didn't get within his range. I teased him a bit and took some pictures before I dropped a bowling ball-sized Rock on his head.

Nothing old Mr. 10 and a dose of fuggin turkey loads wouldn't handle w ease. Be eatin' fried rattler shortly thereafter. Maybe drinking a few cold ones as well!

Sammo I hunted rattlers for years...learned not to fug with the ones that were fuggin.....it seems they WILL attempt to protect their mates

Most of my experience was with Pacific Diamondbacks in WA state.... a snake not to be made sport of, deadly and born with a bit of an attitude.....and of course prairie rattlers here at home.

BIG difference is you pin the head on a Pacific, and he holds still...pin the head on a prairie rattler and they go ballistic!

chop their heads off, and they ALL wiggle.....

I remember when I was a kid, and I was about to blast a snake with my shotgun, an older gentleman told me that "If you shoot a snake with a shotgun, the barrel will be crooked from here on out."

I told him that I reckon I'll have a crooked-barrel shotgun....BLAM.

That might be what happened to Pats ( Ltppowell) shotgun.

He can still hit schitt with it.


Like you wouldn't believe....

Fuggin Bad Azz old homestead! What I wouldn't give to have that old place. The stories that could tell.

It is a great place a pard owns it along with about four others. That one was his great Uncles place. I will take more pictures when I go visit in April. He called this week with news the gophers and dogs are thicker than hair on a dogs back.

I'm pretty sure you're correct on the Mohave Green, Tom. Killed a Mohave in Arizona years ago that looked just like those pictured.

Snakes and I do not get along. This one didn't live 30 seconds after his mug shot was taken.

I hate snakes.....

Got a 410, that I use to take with me in the fall in Minnesota... would run across them in September out in the woods scouting...

use to put that shot gun barrel out toward them and they would go to strike that.. as they bit the barrel, I pulled the trigger...

only good snake is a dead snake.. especially if a rattler...cottonmouth... or coral snake...