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Tales of a Snake Hunter

Post Number : #1  Postby linabu on Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:33 am

Dean Ripa loves to hunt the most dangerous snakes in the world.
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Re: Tales of a Snake Hunter

Post Number : #2  Postby ssc on Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:26 pm

Better him than me. I have had too many close encounters with snakes. They have a right to exist anyplace I'm not.

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Re: Tales of a Snake Hunter

Post Number : #3  Postby BlueFJ on Mon Jul 26, 2010 7:25 pm

When we were building the ranch in Poway, we hunted and killed 22 rattlers in a week. Figured we'd get the bastards before they could get our llamas.
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Re: Tales of a Snake Hunter

Post Number : #4  Postby BorregoWrangler on Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:26 am

I like snakes! When we head over to the river I usually run into rattlers, king snakes and gopher snakes.

I recently caught and relocated a big diamondback rattler on my family's ranch in Delzura. They kill them on sight out there but I didn't have the heart to do it. It was such a big, beautiful specimen and really mellow. Took him across the 94 into the Otay Mountains. Just wish I had a camera with me!
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Post Number : #5  Postby OLLIE on Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:58 pm

I RESPECT snakes. They fascinate me and only scare me when startled by them. :)
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Re: Tales of a Snake Hunter

Post Number : #6  Postby WA4DQS on Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:59 pm

I caught and released this little guy on a trail a few months ago. Harmless Mojave Glossy.

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Re: Tales of a Snake Hunter

Post Number : #7  Postby BorregoWrangler on Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:23 am

WA4DQS wrote:I caught and released this little guy on a trail a few months ago. Harmless Mojave Glossy.


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Re: Tales of a Snake Hunter

Post Number : #8  Postby BlueFJ on Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:28 am

WA4DQS wrote:I caught and released this little guy on a trail a few months ago. Harmless Mojave Glossy.

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He does a good job of imitating a rattler!
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Re: Tales of a Snake Hunter

Post Number : #9  Postby ssc on Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:13 am

Just a heads up. Keep in mind that the venom of a mohave green is different then the average diamondback. We generally have the pacific rattler. The MG is a nervous and aggressive fellow with the bite of a cobra. There are docs that are not even aware of this fellow and the proper antivenom to use.

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Re: Tales of a Snake Hunter

Post Number : #10  Postby DaveK on Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:55 am

Harmless rattle snake.
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