rattlesnakes-how to get rid of 'em

[joebw]

You could leave it alone and you will probably never see it again

Probably going to stay in same area for food.

Dispatch the things are best idea

[brett87tex]

Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup by chance? They used to pull a bunch of them off of my FIL's ranch in Fluvanna

I have been to the sweetwater rattlesnake round up maybe 3 times. That’s a good haul from me. Maybe 3-4 hours or so. That’s more west Texas. Llano/Fredericksburg is more central and with all the granite, we had a ton of rattle snakes. We didn’t have a round up like sweetwater does. They make it into a really big deal over there. They have rattle snake shows, car shows, shopping for the ladies. It’s a big deal. To me, sweetwater is, for lack of a better word, kind of a crap hole to live. I can say this because my in laws are from there.

[WWDIII]

Many years ago when I lived in SouthTexas. Now ex brother in law was about as scared of snakes as anybody. You would have thought he was a city boy but he grew up in the country. His dad was a grain and cotton farmer. He’d been driving combines and tractors doing farm work growing Seen his share of snakes. He wouldn’t just kill a snake, no matter what kind, rattle snake to grass snake. He’d take a hoe and chop them into little bitty pieces and ya better be out of his way cause he’d hit ya in the head with a chopin hoe.

[joebw]

I guess no one has been bitten by a rattlesnake .

Kill them all if they are close to your house.

[RangrSkipr]

Dupe

[Poodle]

Used to have big problem with them here. Started keeping more area around the house mowed and cats. The cats don't really kill the snakes they eat their food supply. I keep around 6 or 8 cats hanging around all the time, sometimes more sometimes less. I've killed 4 or 5 big ones on my front porch but since the cats and mowing more pasture they have pretty much disappeared. Good luck with them.

[BMCD]

Not in GA

Looks like they lifted the protection on them last year. Now just a few states have them protected.

Go for it.

[mean_dean]

Not in GA

Only non-venomous snakes are protected in GA, and I let them be, even saw one Sunday when I was doing some light yardwork in the back moving through the pine straw. Any venomous snakes can and will be removed from this world if found in my yard.

[518RangerJeff]

There used to be a show on cable where guys would go out and catch them and sell them for anti Venom.

[RangrSkipr]

I grew up in WF and used to go to the Waurika Rattlesnake Roundup every year.

Small world here on BBC. I grew up 50 miles SW of you on a red dirt road wheat and cotton farm. We had way too many rattlesnakes. Not many of them lived to tell about it

[1stindoor]

Definitely. I graduated from Iowa Park. But lived in WF. Right on the line.