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Doug McDow

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Another encounter near Holbrook,Az. My Granddaughter and I were looking for meteorites when I came within a couple feet of this Prarie Rattler!
 

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View attachment 22128 View attachment 22129 View attachment 22130 I will put this thread where it belongs. While trying to open up a caved in mine in Az. I didn’t realize that I had company! I do not normally kill my company, but this guy had to go! black tail rattler! In the upper picture, he is coiled up just behind me!
I am glad you don't normally kill your company.
It looked like he wasn't going to move out of his place without letting you know he wasn't happy about it. There is nothing like the sound of a rattle on one of those snakes that will stop you in your tracks. I like that they keep mice and rodent populations down, so I leave them alone when I can. They at least let you know when you are too close. I like them a lot more than the snakes they have in the swamps that make no noise, water moccasins and cottonmouths and pythons and boa's that you don't know about until it is too late. Those ones I would not feel bad about killing on sight. I can live with rattlers as long as they are not in my space and they leave after scaring me.
 

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Third one i have Killed this year. Walked around the truck to get in it and almost stepped on it.
 

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Doug McDow

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I am glad you don't normally kill your company.
It looked like he wasn't going to move out of his place without letting you know he wasn't happy about it. There is nothing like the sound of a rattle on one of those snakes that will stop you in your tracks. I like that they keep mice and rodent populations down, so I leave them alone when I can. They at least let you know when you are too close. I like them a lot more than the snakes they have in the swamps that make no noise, water moccasins and cottonmouths and pythons and boa's that you don't know about until it is too late. Those ones I would not feel bad about killing on sight. I can live with rattlers as long as they are not in my space and they leave after scaring me.
With my hearing, I have not heard a Rattlesnake Rattle, ever. When hiking in a Canyon with my kids(40 years ago) All were yelling at me that there was a Rattlesnake Rattling near me . Another close encounter!:D
 
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