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Snake Pit
Discovery of denning site leads to nerve-racking encounter with dozens of prairie rattlers.
 When a friend told me he had discovered dozens of rattlesnakes concentrated on the edge of a pasture, I thought he was exaggerating. So I went to the spot to check it out for myself. This coiled viper greeted me about three steps from the door of the pickup, and the excitement was about to ratchet up a few notches. AdvertisementRelated PhotosSUBMIT YOUR PHOTOSADVERTISEMENT |
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Wow! Can't say I would be sticking around to gather my bounty. I'd just as soon call in a JDAM hit in the gulch and send them all back to Hades. Apparently beer and snakes do mix?
hahaha don't know if I would have the stomach for a beer after gutting and skinning a snake...good stuff!
Not big on snakes. Fell out of love with those things hunting in Florida. I especially detest stalking across prairie and finding rattlers "growing" out of the ground while the target antelope grazes peacfully ahead.
I love to hunt snakes, some friends and I try to do it every spring. It is a rush. And the snakes taste good too.
I must have been killed by a snake in some past life because they scare the hell out of me. I have never seen a rattle snake in the wild and I would just as soon stay well North to avoid any future meeting. I don't like to picture myself shooting prone at some distant animal and a snake looking me eye to eye of a sudden!!!
Man that's wild it'd be crazy to come up on a wintering site like that and just see tons of snakes moving around.
Did you fellas just shoot them to be shooting them, or did you eat them?? Even though its a snake, its not very sportsman-like to just kill for the sake of killing. I am glad to see at least one of you is putting the snake sking to use. I wish people would use better judgement when dealing with snakes, they are a living creature.
snake SKIN not sking...sorry
Outsider, you have a point, it would be very disappointing if the snakes were not eaten, particularly the big ones, that 5 1/2 footer should give you enough meat for a good snake chili. The smaller ones, we usually leave alone, it's too hard to get a usable amount of meat off of them. And snake is good, blackened, chili, deep fried,whatever.
We used to do this in high school. A buddy had a den site at the bottom of small bluff. Your on full alert from the moment you step out of the pick up at that place in the fall. Gets my heart beating just thinking about it.
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Did you fellas just shoot them to be shooting them, or did you eat them?? Even though its a snake, its not very sportsman-like to just kill for the sake of killing. I am glad to see at least one of you is putting the snake sking to use. I wish people would use better judgement when dealing with snakes, they are a living creature.
Wow! Can't say I would be sticking around to gather my bounty. I'd just as soon call in a JDAM hit in the gulch and send them all back to Hades. Apparently beer and snakes do mix?
hahaha don't know if I would have the stomach for a beer after gutting and skinning a snake...good stuff!
Not big on snakes. Fell out of love with those things hunting in Florida. I especially detest stalking across prairie and finding rattlers "growing" out of the ground while the target antelope grazes peacfully ahead.
I love to hunt snakes, some friends and I try to do it every spring. It is a rush. And the snakes taste good too.
I must have been killed by a snake in some past life because they scare the hell out of me. I have never seen a rattle snake in the wild and I would just as soon stay well North to avoid any future meeting. I don't like to picture myself shooting prone at some distant animal and a snake looking me eye to eye of a sudden!!!
Man that's wild it'd be crazy to come up on a wintering site like that and just see tons of snakes moving around.
snake SKIN not sking...sorry
Outsider, you have a point, it would be very disappointing if the snakes were not eaten, particularly the big ones, that 5 1/2 footer should give you enough meat for a good snake chili. The smaller ones, we usually leave alone, it's too hard to get a usable amount of meat off of them. And snake is good, blackened, chili, deep fried,whatever.
We used to do this in high school. A buddy had a den site at the bottom of small bluff. Your on full alert from the moment you step out of the pick up at that place in the fall. Gets my heart beating just thinking about it.
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