Snake gettin

themadbowhunter

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Um this sounds crazy but i am crazy so in my ear it sounds like something id love to do. I was reading in a bowhunter magazine in an article about a man that went to texas with his recurve to try to stick a javalina. Nothing out of the ordinary or crazy about that but then he said he was hoping to fill what i understand a rattlesnake permit and he got his wish and killed a four foot rattlesnake with his bow. So if any of you live in Texas can you really buy a permit because if so i may hitch hike there and do so.
 
no permit needed to kill them that I'm aware of. however there are a few protected species. Diamond backs are the big bad boys on the block. So far as I know they are still legal ,but I would check into it with Texas Parks and wildlife first be sure and tell them you are not collecting live specimens that is a whole other ball game now days and you would need a permit.
 
All of Idaho's reptile, including rattlesnakes, have been listed as protected non-game species with the state. A protected non-game status means that people can't kill or possess the species unless state law and commission regulations allow it. Fish and Game notes Idaho law allows the killing of the non-game species if they endanger human health, safety or property.

Of the several species of rattlesnake we have here my favorite one is the flatsnake. That's the one you see on the highway thats about 8 inches wide and about 1/8th of an inch thick.

I used to know a few folks that made a pretty good penny or two selling rattlesnake hides, looks like the state has put them out of business. Guess you'll have to go to Texas or Arizona or one of them other states that still consider them a nuisance.
 
Only 4 foot, in Texas???? why that's just a baby.

Here in East Texas, we have the Eastern Diamondback and the smaller Canebrake Rattlers, the Canebreaks are definitely protected. I have killed several Westerns over 5 ft long and bigger around than my arm at our deer lease in Central Texas.
 
When we where kids I had cousins living in western SD.
We would go hunting for them with a 6'6" fishing pole that had 30lb test line tied to the eyelet on one end and the other you grabed with your hand. find a snake slip the loop over its head and pull! swing it overhead and hit the snake on a rock to killl it.
Boy that was some good tasting meat fried in garlic buttter.
 
That's so frikken funny.. We were just poor kids in Ohio and we shot a ton of big Northern Watersnakes & tanned the skins in every water hole we could find. I always thought we were just weird kids who liked to hunt anything that was in the woods - Gary
 
go to sweetwater,texas rattlesnake roundup and knock your lights out on the snakes in the wind farms they picked up a crane mat that had over 100 rattlesnakes. I was not there so I hope they stuck around and count them.
 
Hey Varmithntr,
This is a Timber Rattler 52 inches long. .357 put hole in him and when picked up that is what fell out. Do you still want some with garlic butter...yuck, I may have tried it before I saw that. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif

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That's so frikken funny.. We were just poor kids in Ohio and we shot a ton of big Northern Watersnakes & tanned the skins in every water hole we could find. I always thought we were just weird kids who liked to hunt anything that was in the woods - Gary


I've seen a 6ft'er in the water next to the dock up here in michigan at Independance Oaks park. They can be frightening. That thing looked at me and dove down deep like Clark Gable in a WWII sub movie /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Dang, that timber rattler is real pretty. I've killed three rattler's with a shovel, just lunge the spade right behind the head. Then after that you can pick em up and they'll keep slithering around without a head for like half an hour. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
If ya'll knew how much money was in the snake business ya'll would be catchin them live and not killin'em.

You would be hard pressed to name any snake in the world that I haven't owned at some point in time.

I had a 3 sri-lankin tree vipers, 1 orange male and 2 green females that at one time produced a blue offspring, that blue snake sold for $250,000. Ofcourse I wasn't the owner of them when they produced it and they never did again as far as I know. But rare snakes are very valuable and even common rattlesnakes are somewhat valuable for anti-venom production. An albino(it's not actually albinism it's a different more rare genetic anomally) Lace Monitor about 10 years ago sold to a casino in Vegas for 1 million bucks.

Snakes..........Yeah I've had a bunch.

Chupa
 
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Hey Varmithntr,
This is a Timber Rattler 52 inches long. .357 put hole in him and when picked up that is what fell out. Do you still want some with garlic butter...yuck, I may have tried it before I saw that. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif

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sure- ever see what some pigs eat????
I have eaten some weird $hit in my life - some great some not so great!!
 
I have an agrement with snakes, I don't kill them when I see them and they don't bite me. Two years ago a buddy killed a large Rattle Snake while dove hunting, It was coiled up by a fallen dove. He shot its head off, and the snake kept moving for an hour. Made me jump like 20 times until I moved it away from my seat. Spooky!
 
A freind and I go out in the prairie dog towns in the spring and hunt them.The most we found in a day was 36 and another time we found 21 in a day.We usually only kill the big ones and skin em.I killed a 48 inch one last year and a 46 incher the year before.In the last two years I have probably seen over 200 rattlers.I wish we had big diamondbacks around here but the prairie rattlers we do have dont get very big but are really aggresive.I will get some pics to show u guys in the spring.And in the fall when the babys are being born I will get a pic of a den full of babys.
 
I grew up in central Tx and we used to hunt rattlers. Once we had 94 in a box cage getting ready for a show. Use to do rattlesnake roundups and sacking contests (your bud and you 1 holds a burlap bag and one catches with his hands and feet only, timed event whoever catches the most is an alotted time won. Use to box rattlers too. Coil them up and put your cowboy hat on it. Pick up the hat and slap him, if you get bit you lost the match.
Use to catch timber/canebrake rattlers in SC in the army too. I love snake hunts.
 
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I grew up in central Tx and we used to hunt rattlers. Once we had 94 in a box cage getting ready for a show. Use to do rattlesnake roundups and sacking contests (your bud and you 1 holds a burlap bag and one catches with his hands and feet only, timed event whoever catches the most is an alotted time won. Use to box rattlers too. Coil them up and put your cowboy hat on it. Pick up the hat and slap him, if you get bit you lost the match.
Use to catch timber/canebrake rattlers in SC in the army too. I love snake hunts.


I am not one to judge a man for anything he does...but DAM!!! I think I'd pee my pants just watching you do that.
 
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Found among the stupidest gun quotes of all time:
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. "

(-- Adolf Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938)



Not stupid at all - the first thing Castro did after "The people's revolution" was to disarm all of the people of Cuba!

Look at the result after 45 years.

Hitler had the same thing in mind.


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All of Idaho's reptile, including rattlesnakes, have been listed as protected non-game species with the state. A protected non-game status means that people can't kill or possess the species unless state law and commission regulations allow it. Fish and Game notes Idaho law allows the killing of the non-game species if they endanger human health, safety or property.

Of the several species of rattlesnake we have here my favorite one is the flatsnake. That's the one you see on the highway thats about 8 inches wide and about 1/8th of an inch thick.

I used to know a few folks that made a pretty good penny or two selling rattlesnake hides, looks like the state has put them out of business. Guess you'll have to go to Texas or Arizona or one of them other states that still consider them a nuisance.

? This is just weird to me. Did you have a shortage of snakes? When was this policy instituted? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
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