When I eat them, I just fry them up. They cook fast, are very tender, and tasty.
<br> A word of caution. Be very carefull about handling them. I blew a rattler in two once with a 7X57. When I pinned down the body, to cut off the head, it turned and sunk it's fangs into the stick. I mean, this thing had stopped bleeding, and thrashing.
<br> The head should be buried, or burned. The venom remains toxic for a long time. E
