Rattlesnake photo?

  • LenH
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 2385
    August 3, 2012 at 3:27 pm #1278410

    Anyone have a rattlesnake photo they have taken?
    The midwest rattlesnake?
    I want to write a story for Midwest Outdoors about snakes.
    I will give photo credit?

    Thanks
    Len

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 3, 2012 at 3:51 pm #1089442

    I have one that was run over on a road.

    If you want your own photo, give me a holler. While I sit in the truck you can go take all the photos you like. Please wear high boots. I’m not going to be sucking on any ones legs.

    Beaver E
    Posts: 137
    August 3, 2012 at 3:54 pm #1089445

    Is there that many rattlesnakes in the redwing area?? They give me the creeps

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 3, 2012 at 3:55 pm #1089446

    In the bluffs.

    LenH
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 2385
    August 3, 2012 at 3:58 pm #1089447

    Quote:

    I have one that was run over on a road.

    If you want your own photo, give me a holler. While I sit in the truck you can go take all the photos you like. Please wear high boots. I’m not going to be sucking on any ones legs.

    I need one that shows its colors so an identification can be made. The last one I saw was alive but it got off the road really fast and I was not going to follow it in the tall grass.

    No sucking going on anytime soon.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 3, 2012 at 4:01 pm #1089449

    Photo taken a long way from Everts and my camper.

    Beaver E
    Posts: 137
    August 3, 2012 at 4:14 pm #1089454

    I am guessing there isn’t much of a mice problem there.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 3, 2012 at 4:17 pm #1089459

    At my camper? I wish!!

    Jake_A
    Posts: 569
    August 3, 2012 at 4:25 pm #1089464

    There are a LOT more rattlers than people think along the bluffs, especially on the WI side.

    Willy D
    Nipawin, SK
    Posts: 209
    August 3, 2012 at 4:45 pm #1089470

    Can’t help you on a midwest rattler but you can ask my brother about the pain of a prairie rattler bite.He got bite last week(Wed) spent 3 days in intensive care.Got bite on left hand,right wrist was 6″ around left wrist was 14″.Left arm was swollen all the way up to shoulder as well as left side of body from waist to head.Don’t try and pick up even if you think it is dead. It was on the side of highway stretched out(5 1/2 to 6 ft),they watched it for several minutes it didn’t move, tongue was not even coming out of mouth,they thought it was dead he went to pick up to take picture and whamo. He has head a few wrecks in his life broken bones and concusions from hockey and he said the pain was something out of this world and never wants to experiance again.

    pantherpop
    Kalispell, MT
    Posts: 264
    August 3, 2012 at 5:35 pm #1089488

    Len I emailed a photo to you.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 3, 2012 at 6:11 pm #1089499

    Quote:

    they thought it was dead he went to pick up

    This will never happen to me.

    shale
    Stillwater, MN
    Posts: 107
    August 4, 2012 at 1:59 am #1089588

    Here’s some pics of Timber Rattlers I ran across while trout fishing in Beaver Creek State park in southern MN. My wife almost stepped on one of them while we were walking down a trail. They decided to curl up on a log where I snapped a couple pics. I got video of them rattling. The last few pics are actually two of them snuggled up.







    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 4, 2012 at 2:14 am #1089590

    Nice pic’s Scott. Glad she “almost” stepped on one.

    shale
    Stillwater, MN
    Posts: 107
    August 4, 2012 at 2:33 am #1089599

    Yeah BK – Some guy got bit in the park last year. Doesn’t surprise me one bit after what I saw. I love rattlers.

    jeff_huberty
    Inactive
    Posts: 4941
    August 4, 2012 at 9:14 pm #1089730

    BK

    As the Global warming climate moves further north, so to will the Rattle (beasts) Snakes range.

    Quote:

    I love rattlers.

    There is something wrong here.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 4, 2012 at 9:33 pm #1089736

    Show those pics to your wife yet Jeff?

    Mike Stephens
    WI.
    Posts: 1722
    August 5, 2012 at 1:31 am #1089756

    They don’t bite unless they sense fear Brian.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 5, 2012 at 2:56 am #1089771

    Why did you have to bring the FW into this conversation Mike?

    armchairdeity
    Phoenix, AZ, formerly from the NW 'Burbs, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Posts: 1620
    August 5, 2012 at 3:39 am #1089777

    PM sent

    LenH
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 2385
    August 5, 2012 at 4:23 pm #1089837

    thanks all for the photos

    will submit them to Midwest Outdoors.

    If it runs I will you know.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    August 5, 2012 at 5:14 pm #1089842

    Quote:

    If it runs I will you know.

    Made a number of use run…just thought I would let you know.

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    August 5, 2012 at 6:03 pm #1089853

    Thought of you yesterday Bk when I was picking rock up north. Twice I stuck hand in the hole to pull out the rock and got the pants scared off me. Little orange striped snakes. They suffered the wrath of my spade.

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