Here is the crap I have been haveing to deal with

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While out bow hunting for hogs in Oct. I look down from the tree I was in and saw this guy. This is one of 5 ive shot from Sept. to Nov. This is the only one I arrowed. The others were taken care of with a gun.

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I shot this guy while I was waiting for the hogs I arrowed to go down.
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Nice! Right in the head too!

That's one of the few things keeping me from moving somewhere down south... at least up here, the only things that will kill you are usually bigger than you and are easier to prepare for!
 
I've lived with rattle snake and never felt the need to kill them. Southern Alberta has quite a few in some areas. The black widows in my house sort of give me the creeps though ;)
 
1899....when I was younger and Kelowna was still a relatively small town, my friend and I use to go on the back highway and get rattlers at night. His Mom cooked them and they do taste like chicken! We made some neat hat bands and scared girls!
 
Rattlers usually want nothing to do with people unless you step on them or try to handle them. that is when you get bit.
 
Sasquatch - I was walking in Okanagan Mountai Park with my dad and a friend. All of us, including the dog, walked past a curled up rattler. We were walking single file up a trail and missed stepping on it by no more than 2 feet. We stopped a few feet passed the snake and it started to move. That's when my dad noticed it.
 
1899...what was the temperature? Sound like the snake was a bit sluggish.:D

When I was hunting in Namibia we saw a puff adder on the road and my PH pulled up with the Land Cruiser and parked on the snakes tail. I stood on the running boards and watched it launching itself at me. Wowww!!! It was pissed off.
 
It was the middle of summer, in a grove of trees. I am glad it was sluggish. We would have had to walk back to the boat, probably 1km or so, and then driven the boat back to the camp ground, and then walked up to our campsite to get the car, and the nearest hospital was a 15 minute drive. Wouldn't have been fun.
 
Aww, c'mon, no one complaining about the headshot? :)

Good shooting Burnie.
Nice boar too.
I thought our American buddies had boycotted us :)
 
Sasquatch said:
1899....when I was younger and Kelowna was still a relatively small town, my friend and I use to go on the back highway and get rattlers at night. His Mom cooked them and they do taste like chicken! We made some neat hat bands and scared girls!
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When I was in Boy Scouts, we used to go on 'SUmmer Hikes" which was 2-3 weeks in the mountians. Our leder was ahard core mountaineer, and he didn't subscribe to the newer Scout doctrine of driving somewhere and setting up camp for a weekend. I learned more about bushcraft from him and that group of scouts than from anywhere else.

Anyway, on one summer camp, I was hiking somewhere in the OK area, and as I was one of the older, stronger kids, I was in the lead.

I ran into a rattlesnake sunning itself on a rock, which quickly coiled up at my approach.

Since I didnt' want to walk by it, and I sure as helel didn't want the younger kids to walk past it, (the leader always took the rear) I decided to kill it

I walked back, found a big stick, and pulled out hte axe

A WHACK witht he stick stunned it, and then I whacked it with the axe, chopping off it's head.

We skinned and ate it, roasted over a fire, and it was pretty good.:)
 
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