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Rattlesnakes

How many coon hunters encounter rattlesnakes while coon hunting? I know that rattlesnakes are most active at night when it cools down. Hunting in rattlesnake country is most dangerous at night. Dave

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In West Texas

Rattlesnakes were everywhere. Wasnt anything to see 4 or 5 while out dove hunting or quail hunting. We kept running dogs and kept blasting snakes. Never had one bit. Lucky I guess

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Re: In West Texas

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Originally posted by Ehill
Rattlesnakes were everywhere. Wasnt anything to see 4 or 5 while out dove hunting or quail hunting. We kept running dogs and kept blasting snakes. Never had one bit. Lucky I guess

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Dave Richards Treeing Walkers Reg American Saddlebred and Registered Rocky Mt. Show Horses

Dave, you just don't know how to handle a rattlesnake. There's a video on Youtube where a man gets behind a rattler, grabs him by the tail, and pops him like a whip. It crushes the snake's head. Watch that video, go out and practice on a few rattlers, and your worries are over.

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Donald Bergeron

Donald I did that with blacksnakes when i was young. Several years ago I saw a black headed up a tree headed to my bluebird box. Figured it was like riding a bike so I grabbed it by the tail, swung him around till he stretched out then gave him a whip. Somehow it didn't go as planned as he had a mouthful of arm right at my elbow and was hanging on like a pitbull. Needless to say if i ever see the need to kill a blacksnake I use a different method.

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Dave, you just don't know how to handle a rattlesnake. There's a video on Youtube where a man gets behind a rattler, grabs him by the tail, and pops him like a whip. It crushes the snake's head. Watch that video, go out and practice on a few rattlers, and your worries are over.

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Dave Richards Treeing Walkers Reg American Saddlebred and Registered Rocky Mt. Show Horses

We run into rattlesnakes and copperheads fairly regularly down here in South Texas. We don’t shoot them. We usually beat them to death with a dog chain. I always carry a nylon leash that has a section that is chain. Works great for killing snakes.

My stepson

Makes a good amount of money in TX catching them for businesses and around/under peoples houses. There's sure plenty of em.

That first snake is a monster…my brother and I killed one that looked about that size many years ago…
It was our first hunt in the place we were starting to hunt and that snake was at least 2.5” in diameter and around 6 ft. Long…and it wasn’t long we saw how thick they were in that area…after about the fifth or sixth hunt we quit going there on account we saw 3 to 5 rattlesnakes each time…the average size snake we saw were a little over 4 ft long…

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That first snake is a monster…my brother and I killed one that looked about that size many years ago…
It was our first hunt in the place we were starting to hunt and that snake was at least 2.5” in diameter and around 6 ft. Long…and it wasn’t long we saw how thick they were in that area…after about the fifth or sixth hunt we quit going there on account we saw 3 to 5 rattlesnakes each time…the average size snake we saw were a little over 4 ft long…

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