ANY GOOD RATTLE SNAKE STORYS

[Bobcat]

okcoyote,

Man, you really dodged the bullet on that one! The brother of a friend of mine in SE Kansas got bitten on his finger by a very small prairie rattler. He was in the hospital for 7 days and his arm turned blue/black and was swollen to about 2+ times its normal size. He had some permanent muscle damage to his hand. The strange thing is that the hospital elected to just let the venom run its course and not administer anti-venom. They said he ran the risk of the anti-venom doing him more harm. That was a new one on me.....

Our Diamond backs can inject a LOT of venom.

Bob

Big George.....You need to call me when you are headed to San Antonio so we can at least grap a cup of coffee. I will round up some of the Posse so we can meet!

[Bennie]

The son of a friend of mine got bit on the hand a few years back and his arm turned black and blue, swole so much they cut the skin to keep it from tearing. He still packs a big scar from it. He had caught it and got careless playing with it. Rattlers don't always inject poison, especially if they have just bitten a prey. But most times they can get a little in you, but have to have that minute bit of time for the muscles to inject the venom. The worst time is when they first come out of the den and hadn't used their venom in a while, thats when it is the most potent.

[CRITRGETR]

Years ago I shot a 6 footer on a Sat deer hunt. I put the headless snake in a brown paper grocery bag & took it to church the next AM.

After services, my buddy & I put the grocery bag next to this guys car door & laid in wait............

As he was waiting for his wife.....He pick up the bag & put it in the back seat........curious thou, he pulled the bag back put of the car for a look to see what was in the it........

"Oh S__T" he screamed with a parking lot full of church members.....

We laughed but some didn't think it was so funny.......

HA HA HA

[Spinne]

I grew up hunting down in the Kiamichi mts. of Oklahoma, (yes, they are considered mountains) and one of the fellas that had a cabin down there, had a seven foot skin mounted on a board. I asked him about getting that rattler and he told me that he had just run it over on one of the logging roads as he was headed in to town. Now, they had a buddy that worked on thier trucks and they decided to play a trick on him. They took that old rattler and tied it to the hood latch inside the engine compartment. They drove in to town pulled up to the garage and told thier friend that the truck was running hot. That old boy lifts the hood and sees that big rattler dangling from the hood, let's out a yell that sounds like a dying horse and pees his pants, right in front of everybody. Old Brad said he couldn't use that mechanic after that...

[skinner]

Well I a story to tell its not about rattlers its about sidewinders The company I worked for decided that it was going to build a new facuilty out in the middle of no where while the plant was being built the security officers would make there rounds at night and they would run in to a few sidewinders every now and then well the officers new that I like to take the skins so they would send the fang one to their happy hunting grounds and then send their bodys out to me with the night drivers in a paper bag.
well this one time I was busy doing something and when the driver show up I just told him to put them in the fridge and I would take care of them later. well later on during the night a friend of mine that had to come in to work early he was unable to get his dinner he ask if I had anything that I did not want. well I was busy and I told him that I would not have time to eat the sandwich that I brought so I told him it was in the fridge in a bag. I plum forgot about the snake in the fridge that was in a bag well about twenty minutes went by when all of a sudden I get this panic call on the radio that I was needed up in the office. Well when I got their I found my friend up on the counter and a snake on the floor and to this day I can not convence my buddy that it was a honest mistake
Sorry about the length of the story.
skinner

[pyledriver]

Haha! Big George, why don't you just move down here? Sounds like we'd all have a heck of a lotta fun!

OK-here's my story: A few years back a buddy of mine and I were having to change deer leases. We were pulling his travel trailer down a little tar top road when we passed these little bunnies. I'm talking baby wabbits... Anyway, my buddy eases to a stop and starts talking about catching one for his daughter-what the heck, this might be fun, right? So we pile out of the truck and ease back to the bunnies which still haven't moved (warning sign #1). Finally when we got close enough to almost catch 'em, they took off into the grass on the shoulder, which was about calf-high (warning sign #2). My buddy took about 2 steps into the grass and suddenly shot up about 3ft in the air, screamed-not unlike a young child of the female persuasion... He'd almost stepped right on a rattlesnake. Needless to say, I hotfooted it to the truck and grabbed the trusty .45. We measured it afterwards and it was 5' long. Not the biggest we've seen but definitely the closest!

Now, ya wanna hear some water moccasin stories? I've got bunches!

[onecoyote]

I have a ton of rattlesnake stories, heck I even had one bite my boot once. One encounter will always stick in my mind. I was shooting ground squirrels with three other buddys, we was laying in a dirt road shooten em on a hill about 150 yards away. There was grass about a foot high in front of us. As I was shooting I had a funny feeling something was looking at me. I looked over to my left and there was a rattler about a foot away from my face, I could see it's forked tongue feeling me out. All I did was roll over to the right, pointed the rifle barrel at it's head and blew it off, rolled back and keep on shooting squirrels like nothing happend. My buddys ask me what happend, Awww nothing just a rattler lol. That snake also happen to be a Mojave Green, you boys have then in Texas also, not common but you have them. They are the only snake in the known world that has both venoms in it, nero and hemo toxen.