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Same in MI. We have only those miniature rattlers that can barely get you sick. But if you cap one, look out.

i don't kill any snake. killed one a few years ago but other than i leave them be.

I leave them be too. Preferably dead.

I've seen 8 in East Texas. 6 were in a 2 day span before hurricane Ike. It seemed like every critter in the woods was stirring. We're not supposed to kill them in Texas and I've never seen a need to

1 per year, with a fishing license.

No crap, that's the rule.

With rules like that, no wonder people
ignore them.

Everyone I know kills every one seen.
A former co-worker had to keep his garage door closed.
On cool days they would come in for the warm floor.

I have logged in bad snake areas.
It sucked. You had to look everywhere you were going to go, or reach.
Checking oil in a vehicle was an exercise in observation.
No food was ever left around....draws mice...

One morning I was starting a tri-axle, I felt something go across my foot.
Jumped straight out the door, no idea what I might land on,
just worried about a flipping snake.
Halfway down I saw a mouse going under the dash.

Poison and traps in the trucks by quitting time.

According to Virginia law it’s illegal to kill copperheads n rattlers they just happen to find there way in the path of my bush hog or lawn mower after the fact

They are absolutely “in dangered!”

OP pics is not a timber rattler

Then what is it?

I encounter a Timber Rattler now & then. I don't kill 'em.

I don't kill any snake , I ain't that scared of 'em.





Mike

Interesting thread - thanks. Surprised with the disagreement about the types of rattlesnakes pictured. That one with 16 rattles is unusual in my experience - must have spent all of its time in very soft grass or on a satin sheet,

I kill em. Fuggers die when I see em.

I let the gopher snakes, king snakes, garters etc go..... will even catch them and hide them so the hawks
don’t have a easy lunch.

Buzz tails..... no pass.

I have had a couple close calls where I coulda/shoulda been nailed and I be damned if I’m going
to let one go on the off chance it might hit a kid, adult, dog or anything.

F u c k those nasty worms.

Not killing a killer is ridiculous. Get them before they get you or someone else.

I live right next to Rothrock and Bald Eagle on 322 side, so that is where I walk the dogs and hunt. Yep it is a heavy year for them. The females pop out young ones right now, and others are breeding, so there is lot of snake movement in September. Lot of chipmunks this year so I guess good feeding. I generally dont kill them but my best friend kills every one, every time.
Another friend got bit by one in Bellefonte quarry, and naturally he got the anti venom at Mt. Nittany. His arm still swelled like a balloon, I thought it was going to blow up, but it eventually healed up.
Lots of bob cats the last few years in Rothrock, got many on the trail cams.
Great place to live.

Bull n ake.

Yep. No telling how many kids and their dogs I have saved.

My cousin killed one in E Texas when I was a big kid. It had 22 rattlers and a button. About 6-7 inches long rattlers. Polk County.

"...With rules like that, no wonder people ignore them..."

lol, I love it. but, true!!

There's been a few reports of them in Southeast Minnesota in the Mississippi River Bluffs area. We had them up in our central Pennsylvania area pretty regularly. Saw a couple laying dead on the roads up there. We also used to see a few bull snakes up there too.

I encountered plenty of timber rattlers horseback riding on the game lands. They always gave me plenty of advance warning of their presence. They have a limited source of venom so they dont strike unless it a food source so they can replenish venom or no option to escape danger. They live in the woods, I don't so I let them alone.