Rattlesnake roundup.

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Have you guys heard of it? Go to the official website for details.
www.rattlesnakeroundup.com

My dad is going. Why don't they allow guns?:confused: I wouldn't go near that many snakes without at least a 12 gauge. That sounds reasonable to me.
 
When I was a kid we used to go to the one in Okeene, OK. It gave me the creeps then and my attitude has not changed.
 
We've got one here in Alabama, at Opp. It is real interesting, alot of fun. I went with my Boy Scout troop about 10 years ago, ate some rattlesnake--tastes like chicken!
 
Ill pass too....i live in the High desert of PRK and we have have enough of those snakes wild i wouldnt need to go to a show to see them
 
Snakes are cool. They do their thing, I do mine. They leave me alone, I leave them alone. Pit Vipers are not something I want to play around with... sorta like guns, I respect their ability to do great harm when mishandled. Unlike firearms, they do have a mind of their own.

Early on in my impressionable youth, while swimming at my uncle's cabin/house at Lake of the Ozarks, we had to skedaddle out of the water as a neighbor chased a Water Mocassin down and shot it with a shotgun.

I had a run-in with a Blue Racer as a youngster in the Ozarks at Scout Camp one time (those things are tall, er, I mean long, mean and fast). Suffice it to say, the BR won that go-round. :eek:

Got no use for snakes. They've got no use for me.
I like it that way.
 
All my life I've heard about the rattlesnake roundup in south Georgia, but never have gotten to go. I always thought it'd be interesting. You find the snakes in tortoise or groundhog burrows. Pour a little gasoline down a hose and just wait a minute. I heard about one out in Texas too from someone who told 'em no way.

They may well have a no guns policy on the roundups because they want to bring 'em back alive as opposed to wanted dead or alive. I guess it's kinda like shipping cattle on the hoof.

The biggest problem I see with snakes is you can be right on top of them before you know they're there. You get bit by not paying good enough attention. All the snake's doing is self defense, just like we talk about dealing with predators- two or four legged. It's nothing quite so personal between us and the snake. Just that snakes have had a bad rap ever since Eden and I think it's pretty dumb to blame that on the snake who didn't ask to be possessed temporarily. Which reminds me of the scientist who did a study... he set out rubber turtles and snakes on the highway. Everybody swerved to avoid the turtles, and some even stopped to set the turtle off to the side. But the snakes... everybody ran over 'em and one woman even turned around and ran over it two or three more times. I heard about it listening to Paul Harvey a few years ago.
 
It's not uncommon to run into rattlers in my neck of the woods. Although I'm always armed, I let 'em slide. They don't care about me unless I sit on 'em, and I kinda like seein' 'em. That's just me though...
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My wild caught Broad banded Southern Copperhead. Woke up one morning and had 6 more. Not as cool as a Rattlesnake, but much prettier.

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Been to the one at Waynoka, Ok a couple times when we go to little sahara to ride 4wheelers, its fun, and rattlesnake taste like chicken cook in the gease used at long john silvers.:)
 
My dad was stationed at Dyess AFB in Abilene when I was a kid---we went a couple times-----yes its not for the snake squeemish---cause you'll see more rattlers than you've ever seen in your life---kinda unbelievable actually.
 
There is an annual Rattlesnake roundup in North Central Pennsylvania at Sinnamahoning in Cameron County in July. Lots of fun! Get as close or as far away as your heart dictates. Quantrill
 
The rattlesnake roundup in s. Ga. is at Claxton.

Claxton is located on US 301S approximately 20miles S. of I16, roughly 60 miles n. of Savannah.

From Macon and North just take I16 to US301. Turn r. about 20miles.

This is an annual event, and lasts all weekend.

Been there, wife hates snakes, so done that.

JP ;)
 
Only time I had to do unto a rattler was when one "treed" my partner up an antenna tower.

Picked up a fist sized rock and threw hard.

Almost took its head off.

Then my partner wanted the rattle, so I cut it off for him.:D

Sometimes they let you alone, sometimes they get real aggressive, either way you can deal with them without firearms.;)
 
Baba Louie said:
.... Early on in my impressionable youth, while swimming at my uncle's cabin/house at Lake of the Ozarks, we had to skedaddle out of the water as a neighbor chased a Water Mocassin down and shot it with a shotgun.

I had a run-in with a Blue Racer as a youngster in the Ozarks at Scout Camp one time (those things are tall, er, I mean long, mean and fast). Suffice it to say, the BR won that go-round. :eek:
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I'm not much of a snake "aficionado", so I was wondering if Water Mocassins, Blue Racers and Cotton Mouths, were the same thing(??) Could someone enlighten me?

I had a friend .... who's now deceased (nothing to do with snakes), that used to go to these "rattler round-ups" in western OK, every year. He'd always ask if I wanted to go with him .... but by some 'strange' coincidence, I always had something I had to do that weekend (darn-it).:rolleyes:
 
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