ANY GOOD RATTLE SNAKE STORYS

[REM223PA]

Boy from the east meet snakes from the west

On my fist trip to Texas I could ‘t sleep for weeks before we left just that happy to be going
Hunting with some felles I really didn't know real well so I was a little weary.
we met up about 4: 30 to get to the air port in time (I didn't sleep at all that night)
Why we were on the plane I fond out by over hearing that some hunters got big rattle snakes the year before.
Man i was thinking to my self-maybe these fells are all right and maybe I get a nice snake for amount.

At the airport in san Antonio there was 3 -f350 cru cab to pick us up . I was feeling good.
We arrived in camp in Pearsall at the half bro Ranch . I was so ready to hunt.
This is where I find out that on the last trip the guides bring the snakes back to camp for the hunters to shoot
Man I was disappointed in them,, you boy s shot them in camp from the porch. Then braged about the big rattlesnakes you got I sad to them please now more storyes ok.

Any way at about 12; 00 am. This Mexican cowboy ask me if I would go with him to open a gate
Shore I told and off we went I fell asleep on the way there but got rite up when he sad look at that big snake.
Stop I sad let me out!!. Ok why he!! yields as I ran down the road.i am going to get that snake.!
The snake got just off the road where I gess he was for the warmth or something when I hit him with a hand full of dirt it stop and coiled right up .now I am yelling to the Mexican, what do I do? .he sad to tack off my belt
And hit him in the head with the buckle !
off came the belt. Now I have a 52’’ waste i am thinking this may be good ..BUT now my paint are falling down so I have 1 hand on my paints 1 on the belt and the Mexican was yelling orders. the snake was pissed and now I cant stop from shacking. 1,Swing 2 ,swings the third time I hit him right in the head. Now my new friend is telling me to pick it up fast before it wakes up.
So now I got the snake by the head and tail my paint are half way down and he’s telling me to swing it around and hit its head on the ground to kill it. NO WAY I can see this thing that now is awake biting me on the neck on the way around so I put it in a bucket and a nether bucket on top.
And now I have my 5’ 10’’ Texas rattlesnake mount ,,,
DONT HAVE THEM HERE MUCH IN P.A

i love TEXAS GEORGE

[CoonDawg]

GW you are something else ;D, I first thought that the guy was messing with you and trying to teach you how to be an Eastern cowboy by lassoing the snake

Back in the early eighties, I work security at SW Research here in SA. The other guards always told me to watch out for Ocsar but, never told me who or what Oscar was. I thought Oscar was one of the chimps that liked to spit on people as the got close because one of the check points was near his cage. Well I was making my rounds about 1:00 am driving around on the backside of the property I run over a log and kept going but, stop cause I didn't remember running over that log before when I had went the same way.

So I turned around to go back the way I had just come from. Only to find that the log wasn't there anymore . When I got back and told the others about what had happened they told me I had just met Oscar , Well Oscar was a Rattle snake !! The road was about 7' wide and I never saw the head or tail and I was driving a 1 ton pickup and it didn't even bother him for me to drive over him.

[jdickey]

;DOne of my favorites happened about 30 years ago. We were dove hunting near a little town in central Texas called Valley Mills. We were around a small stock tank (pond) and actually shooting "whole doves" (that's an insider joke)!

We had to cross fences over into another field to pick up the birds. I was in the process of crossing over the bob-wire fence(in Texas that's what we call barbed wire). I was half way over the fence, only got stuck once, the bob-wire was between my legs, when I hear the whirrring of a rattlesnake. I immediately froze, because I could not see him at all. Everything around me was clear, so I started over the fence again with the bob-wire still between my legs, and again I heard the rattlesnake. So I froze again, and still did not see the snake. This goes on for about a couple of minutes more... hear the snake, but don't see him.

Finally, I figured out that every time I pressed down on the top strand of the bob-wire to get over the fence, I'd hear the snake. So after a few more test, I finally located the snake in an old rabbit hole along side of one of the fence post.

So, every time we pushed on the wire it would cause the pole to move. Every time the pole moved the rattlesnake would whir. Well, after that discovery, he didn't whir any more!

[1st cav sgt ret]

OH BIG GEORGE IM PICTURING THAT IN MY HEAD LAUGHING MY A## OFF that would be whats called the TEXAS TWO STEP ohhh man that hurts LAMO

[chukarlover]

I was logging in northern california for acouple of years and I remeber one day we were logging on this side of a mountain and we were getting ready to take lunch and one of the guys I was with went to go to take a leak and and we started hearing all this screaming like a little girl. So I ran over to see what the problem was and there was this five and a half foot timber rattler sitting there in some manzanita brush, looking and my buddy. The moral of the story is to look before you leak.

[REM223PA]

here is 2 more me and my hunting partner got .jim he stands almost as tall as me and iam 6'7"

[CoonDawg]

GW if you were a lil bit taller I'ld say you took my hat ;D but since you are 6'-7" I wont even think about it

[ICMCumin]

Big George - that is one of the funniest hunting stories I have ever heard - am still LMAO........ ;D ;D ;D

[REM223PA]

I don't tell a real good story but every time i walk by that snake mount i still smile and and thank god for a long belt

[Bobcat]

.....and a good eye and steady hand!

[Bennie]

Well heres my try at it, I'm a rattle snake hunter, I catch them in their dens. Several years ago me and a friend of mine went to a place where I knew there was a den, when we got there the rancher said that some guys had came out and gased it a couple days before. I told my friend we could go down and check around, because a lot of times when you gas a den they don't all come out quick and some stragglers may be around. Well we got down there and sure enough we found a few laying under rocks here and there. Then we come to this over grown rock pile, he goes around one way, me the other, in a couple of minutes he says Bennie I got one over here, so I go over to help when I get over there I don't see any snake, I ask him where it is and he says Oh **** and flips a snake up with his hook that hits me in the chest, I start swinging my hook at it while trying to get my feet in motion, they was tryin to leave without me. About that time I realize it isn't a rattler, but a coachwhip and my friend has done ran off to keep from being hit up side the head. Well I calmed down and promised him I wouldn't hit him.
REVENGE IS SWEET: The next week the same buddy and I go to this really good den I got permission to work, when I shot the gas in a really big snake 5'9" long and really thick came out, I pinned it with my hook and picked it up, we were putting them in a tote sack, so my buddy was holding the sack as I lowered it in, as I was doing this I told him not to move because there was some snakes coming out behind him. I continued to lower him down into the sack I got him to eye level and stopped, at which I started gently easing the snake toward my friend , he was starting to panic as I got closer, I then asked him if he was ever going to through another snake on me, and he promised me ( as he was trying to lean backwards ) that he wouldn't along with his first born and everything else I wanted to get that snake away from him. Moral of the story, the revenge is almost always better. Sorry so long.

[Bobcat]

Hey Bennie......remind me to stay on your good side! ;D

Bob

[okcoyote]

hey big george......i agree with icm. that is without a doubt one of the funniest stories i have heard in a looong time. i can just see it my head.

well i gotta two snake stories.. once upon a time in coke county, texas me and my future father in law and his brother in law were dove hunting (sept.) i shoot a dove and dont mark it down. we had no dogs for fetching so i started looking. could not find the darn thing in the grass and prick. pears. i almost gave up . low and behold there the darn thing is right there at my feet. i reach down to pick it up and there to meet me about knee level was a big ole west. diamond back. he nipped me on the tip of my finger. it started to bleed. i told myself to try stay calm. he crawled in to a pear and i shot his head off with my 12 ga. i picked him up and had to walk 250 yds. back to where everybody was at.
the closest hosp. was in san angelo. we wrapped the finger in ice and kept on huntin'. evidentily he did not get enough venom in to do much harm. it turned a different color, but thats about all. i grew up with them along the red river when i farmed. i do have a respect for them.

[REM223PA]

hi okcoyote
i am glad you did not have a problem with that bite.

i was thinking about it i don't think thay will hit you with
ventom all the time . not that i like to fined out!
but it more defence of bite and to tell you to back off.
not like if it was hunting and it sences tell it it is capable of eating it then it inventomates.
i just dont know.

these are thing i think about when it - 20 here there ant anything to do but that

good hunting\
big george

[1st cav sgt ret]

Big George I have to disagree,you do tell a good story,every time I come back to this I still get a great laugh,I hope we can share a campfire sometime(heck Id just tag along and be the camp cook and muleskinner for that) ;D ;D