The big snakes roam at night!

[tex4k]

Had about a 3'er trying to climb my garage door last Tues. night, I guess he could feel the warm and wanted to get closer to it!

[RMW]

Scary

[gumbl3]

good one there

[Jon B]

That snake may have ate the pig

What he said!

[sandbill]

This is right in line with a creepy lesson I learned about snakes just this past week. I was on a camp/hunt at Gene Howe WMA in Canadian, TX. Last Monday night/Tuesday morning the temp got down to an arctic 6 degrees. About a day and a half later, around noon Wednesday, I came across an 18" prairie rattler sprawled out under the sunny skies of a 60 degree day. I had always assumed that temps as low as single digits would keep the reptiles permanently underground until springtime! I'll never take off my snake boots again!

[be12hunt]

I always thought that cold would have them dormant. I guess not.

[Burnadell]

Don’t worry about the snake. The hog ate it.

[Kingfisher789]

What do those hogs do to kill em? Stomp them?

[MagicBlade]

We killed 4 rattle snakes this weekend at our lease and one on the road on our way back home.
This warm weather has them moving!

[Burnadell]

What do those hogs do to kill em? Stomp them?

They bite them and shake the crap out of them. Then eat them.

[Tbar]

You don't have to worry about that one.

Hog ate good that night.

[bullets13]

Cool picture!

[Texas Grown]

Thanks for the pic John!


Got my first ratter on a Thanks Giving weekend back in 1984. It's my 3rd largest at 5-6". I had almost stepped on it that Sunday evening. Fell backwards trying not to. Then crab-crawled backwards on the ground trying to get away from it with rifle in one hand.






Edit: Looks like there might be a second set of eyes behind that hog's legs.

[okrattler]

This is right in line with a creepy lesson I learned about snakes just this past week. I was on a camp/hunt at Gene Howe WMA in Canadian, TX. Last Monday night/Tuesday morning the temp got down to an arctic 6 degrees. About a day and a half later, around noon Wednesday, I came across an 18" prairie rattler sprawled out under the sunny skies of a 60 degree day. I had always assumed that temps as low as single digits would keep the reptiles permanently underground until springtime! I'll never take off my snake boots again!

I've seen snakes out in every month of the year. It's been a few years but one morning we found one when we were pheasant huntin. There was still snow in places on the ground and it was 50 degrees outside. Believe it or not snakes can handle cold better than they can handle the heat. You could put one in the refrigerator in the morning and it'll still be alive that evening. Put one in a bucket when it's hot outside and it'll be dead and it won't take long.

There's a story behind the snake in the refrigerator. That's how I know that. One year I was putting snakes in a pillow case and freezing them because at the time I was selling them like that. Well I had snakes stacked up so high in my freezer I couldn't put anymore in it. So I figured I'd put one in the refrigerator before work and clear the freezer out when I got home from work and put him in it. So I get home and the pillow case ain't moving and he ain't buzzing so I dumped him on the floor and picked him up. I started moving frozen snakes around and he came back to life on me. I dropped him back in the sack and put him in with the others. That was the end of that.

[gatorgar]

Dad got a good one this afternoon. They'll be moving till January down south

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