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How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 05:31 PM
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 05:45 PM
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...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 05:46 PM
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dogcatcher
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 05:50 PM
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NORML as can be
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 06:32 PM
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jhenderson
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Still prefer the shoot method. Not gonna get close enough to pick it up
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 06:33 PM
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thewrap
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Pretty sure a 12ga to the head works just as well. And I don't have to catch it first.
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 06:35 PM
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Concho
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dead, dead, dead.....good snake now.
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 08:13 PM
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Always ready 2 hunt
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Whip it! Whip it Real Good!
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 10:29 PM
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I am not going to try that
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 10:38 PM
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X3 load of 7 1/2 from my 12 ga. will eliminate the head.
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 10:46 PM
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I knew you could do that but I'll be damned if I try it. Couldn't get to my gun once snake had me blocked from door under my truck. I was filling feeders in the summer. He crawled up in the shade under my truck. I climbed up in the bed and got a hammer and hit him in the head with it. Then blew his head off once I got to my shotgun. That head couldn't bite anyone either.
Bobby Barnett
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 10:56 PM
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nyalubwe
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Super Duper good way to get hurt really badly.
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/28/16 11:30 PM
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East texas deer hunter
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shot gun does the same thing with less trouble
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 12:08 AM
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OK so if you find yourself in a "rattlesnake situation" you're supposed to walk over to the snake, step on it's head and fling it around by the tail. Next time I find myself in a "rattlesnake situation" I'll put my gun down and give it a try, because it's the only correct way to kill one. Yeah, right.
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 12:48 AM
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der Teufel
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Speaking with a Park Ranger in the Grand Canyon some years ago, he said roughly 90% of the people who get bit by poisonous snakes know the snake is there and don't avoid it. They're either toying with it, trying to take it's picture, or otherwise getting in its' way. How to properly kill a rattlesnake? Shoot it from a safe distance works for me.
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 01:27 AM
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shot gun does the same thing with less trouble And a lot safer too. I'll just let nature be nature and go around it unless it is a real threat to me or someone around me.
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 01:46 AM
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people get snakebit because they are close enough to get bit. if you're close enough to pick one up, you're close enough to get bit. what if this dude had lost his footing just a bit, or a scorpion happened to have crawled up his britches leg and was stinging him about the time he was reaching for the snake ? why the eff would anyone even tempt fate enough to pick one up barehanded ? it's bad enough just driving the streets with all the unlicensed uninsured drunken border jumpers we have around now. why not hold it down with your junk and then pick it up ?
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 01:55 AM
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....better yet, just leave it alone and go about your merry way.....SMDH!
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 02:45 AM
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Snake shot from the .38 works well too.
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 03:14 AM
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What a dumbass. We have a hoe propped up on each side of the house to deal with rattlers. Everyone I know that has been bitten was picking them up or playing with them.
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 04:01 AM
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In the middle of nowhere like this guy was just keep walking and leave it alone. Near the house a hoe, the city says I shouldn't use a shotgun in the yard.
Mark
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 08:27 AM
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Yup, a hoe works just fine
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 01:11 PM
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In the middle of nowhere like this guy was just keep walking and leave it alone. Near the house a hoe, the city says I shouldn't use a shotgun in the yard.
Mark the snake had an higher IQ
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 03:11 PM
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To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.www.NewHopeEquine.com - Health and Healing through Horses.
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Re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
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05/29/16 04:00 PM
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....better yet, just leave it alone and go about your merry way.....SMDH! That's generally what I do.
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