Big Timber Rattler

[LTZ25]

Those rattlers are the reason we moved out of Greene Co. We killed an average of 6 every summer in the yard. Last July our dog got bit by one in the yard. A $600 anti vemon shot and 4 days in the animal hospital was the deciding factor!

They don't live around Milledgeville do they .

 

[northgeorgiasportsman]

I don't make a habit of killing rattlesnakes these days, but the two largest I ever dispatched had 15 and 16 rattles respectively. The 15 was 52" minus his head and I found him crossing the AT in Suches. I've had those rattles on a necklace hanging from my rearview for years. I once had a girl riding with me and it suddenly dawned on her what they were and she tried to leave the truck!

The 16 was just a few weeks later while I was doing some early season deer scouting and he was in the old logging road I was walking. I didn't measure him, as I had nothing to tote him in and didn't want to carry a squirming, stinking snake all afternoon, but he was bigger than the first.

 

[Nicodemus]

If you get a 5 foot canebrake-timber, you got a big snake. You get a 6 footer you got a one about as big as they get. Biggest one of them I ever got was a shade over 5 feet.

 

[Vivian]

A few years ago we had a six foot Diamondback visit us where I grew up in Dade Co . Ga . , it had 23 rattles and a button....

 

[keithsto]

Someone on the book of faces posted about this one which was killed in Bostwick (Morgan County).

 

[Argent11]

We had a five foot ring tail last month on our porch, that thing was very aggressive. Hissing, rattling striking in the air at the dogs. Moving a lot, it was hard to get a good bead on its head with a 22. It wouldn't even try to get away it kept coming at us. Three shots I finally got it, sometimes you just gotta kill em.

 

[Argent11]

At our age you get hit by one of those you might not make it. Then there is the dad gum black widows and the brown recluse. I have an Apache buddy who got nailed by a recluse on the shoulder. That really messed him up.

 

[Nicodemus]

We had a five foot ring tail last month on our porch, that thing was very aggressive. Hissing, rattling striking in the air at the dogs. Moving a lot, it was hard to get a good bead on its head with a 22. It wouldn't even try to get away it kept coming at us. Three shots I finally got it, sometimes you just gotta kill em.

The rattler was coming at you?

 

[Nicodemus]

At our age you get hit by one of those you might not make it. Then there is the dad gum black widows and the brown recluse. I have an Apache buddy who got nailed by a recluse on the shoulder. That really messed him up.

I just got over a brown widow spider bite on the finger a little over 3 weeks ago. It wasn`t as bad as I`ve heard they are.

 

[Argent11]

The rattler was coming at you?

Yes, the Rancher said it felt threatened by the dogs and was trying to get away.

 

[Argent11]

But I didn't want it on the property. So to us it appeared as aggressive.

 

[Argent11]

Skunks under the house also. Cat food laced with anti freeze takes care of that problem. B12 carb cleaner for all the bad insects like spiders.

 

[Nicodemus]

But I didn't want it on the property. So to us it appeared as aggressive.

Reason I was asking is because I`ve never run into an aggressive snake of any kind. Defensive, yes, but never aggressive.

 

[lagrangedave]

Well his four wheeler talks to him................

 

[Argent11]

Reason I was asking is because I`ve never run into an aggressive snake of any kind. Defensive, yes, but never aggressive.

Could have been seen as aggressive.

 

[Lukikus2]

Could have been seen as aggressive.

I would be aggressive if something 200 lbs was about to step on my 5 lb self.

 

[Argent11]

I wasn't going to give it anytime to find out.

 

[georgia357]

Cat food laced with anti freeze takes care of that problem.

That sounds kinda cruel, I've heard that that is a real painful way to die.

 

[Argent11]

That sounds kinda cruel, I've heard that that is a real painful way to die.

Turns the organs into concrete.

 

[Nicodemus]

That sounds kinda cruel, I've heard that that is a real painful way to die.

It`s an indiscriminate killer too.