hahahaha I killed our first rattle snake for the year, small one, hit with the 410 nothing left to take a picture. hiking out there be careful, mindful. have your gaiters on.
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410 is a poor choice, you need at least 12 gauge 3 inch #4 shells to reliably take down a rattler!
Hunter there was nothing left of the snake. it blew it apart , 12 gauge is way over kill.
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Hunter527
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We owe it to the rattlers to use magnum duck shells for a humane kill, in my opinion!
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I pick them up behind the head and then bite it off. Don't want to ruin all that good meat.
Buddy of mine is a fire captain and deals with snake calls all the time. He told me a story about his old timer engineer...
If a lady calls about a snake in the yard, the old timer just goes and kills it with a shovel and asks no questions.
If they show up, and there’s a guy standing there my buddy said he has to race the engineer over to him because he always tells the guy standing there “I hear you called to borrow a shovel” and they’ve caught some hell for it before, lol.
Everytime I see a snake I laugh thinking about that.
If a lady calls about a snake in the yard, the old timer just goes and kills it with a shovel and asks no questions.
If they show up, and there’s a guy standing there my buddy said he has to race the engineer over to him because he always tells the guy standing there “I hear you called to borrow a shovel” and they’ve caught some hell for it before, lol.
Everytime I see a snake I laugh thinking about that.
If you're using a 12 gauge 3 inch you're just a skybuster...er...snakebuster.
normally the shovel is the go to tool, but we have a lot of boulders and such, and hard to reach sometimes. my second choice is 22 bird shot, but the little 410 make short work. nothing left of the head.
roflmfao back in my marine days (2nd recon bn.) we used to do that with lizards to gross out the grunt's during war games
I have ate snake, it was like a turkey neck . best way I have had it was sun dried and ground up. and added as a spice.
