Are you Frack'n kidding me? Whoa MF!
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Cautionary Tale

I was dove hunting one day many, many years ago and was sitting under a willow beside a stock tank. It was a slow afternoon when I glanced down and stretched out at the waters edge was a 4' rattle snake. By his position he had to have crawled right beside me. That was it's last drink and I never hunted that spot again.

It still gives me shivers when I think about that.

Some of the comments people made were ridiculous. I have had some interesting run ins with buzz tails, only one was anything even remotely close to that.

My shorts would've been greasy!

Damn, that was a whole lotta rattlesnake. Yikes.

he sure would've made some purty boots..................... was it not snake season??????????

Have to guess he didn't even know the snake was there until he edited his GoPro footage. If he did, he is a much cooler cucumber than I am!

The SLC paper had an article a couple years back about a contractor who was holding a rattler up just behind the head. Just a teensy bit over 6' long and 87 pounds.

The other great one, was two weeks ago in Georgia on the PGA Tour. Cottonmouth at least 8' long slithering across the course. When the next golfer walked up, it coiled and showed him why they call them cottonmouths...

I hate snakes. They don't scare me if I see them first, but jeez! I hate snakes.

Fine looking hat band crawling along there.

One cold windy Memorial weekend day I stepped on one's head. Just happened to look down and there it was. After I'd jumped about ten feet. Couldn't find it. Finally there it was with my boot heal print on it's head. I was plumb safe n didn't know it. Only about 3' long prairie rattler. I've never seen a live one big as this. They don't make much noise just crawling.

I'd been sitting on a rock ledge fishing several evenings. The last time I went on the other side of the 20' wide stream and laid on the nice green grass. Noticed some movement to the side a ways. There was a big rattler with head up looking at me, might have been 10-15' away. I never moved, just watched it. Finally it crawled to the water, looked back at me and then swam across and up into the rocks I'd sat on for days!! No by damn, I never went back to those rocks again!

George

George

My biggest buss tail story is this.My friend Howard had inherited the ranch in Castell,Tx. No one had hunted there in years due to legal crap. Howard wanted me to go in and do range management (i.e.cull the eaters to improve the survivors) sound policy actually.He had brought in a Cat D-9;8' blade width approx. to plow a path through this overgrown territory.Long story short,I was walking the path in that red dirt + that feeling comes up,diamond pattern,diamond pattern with my 870 over my shoulder. When I pulled to port,where was the head? One end was in the grass on one side,the other was on the other I waited until the head popped up + took it off with a full choke Even then he coiled up I knew he was dead but I walked back to the ranch house the other way.My point being ,that this buzz tail was longer than a D-9 blade.