Rattlesnake Roundup

[Bed Wetter]

Perhaps all the rattlers in that pen are accustomed to his presence and don't feel the natural urge to bite him, kind of like a tiger in a zoo. They don't completely lose their instinct, but it's become pretty dull. Just speculating.

For years as a teenager I was terrified of chasing cows and calves around a pen to separate them for branding. I didn't grow up ranching so it's hard to get past the idea that if you fall down you might get crushed. But, much like this snake handler, I suppose once you get used to it you just know how to deal with the animals in this environment.

Third option: Mr. Snake Wrangler is mildly retarded and doesn't understand they might kill him.

And maybe I'm completely wrong on all counts.

 

[LBrandt]

Grass snakes can put the fear of God in me. You cannot even comprehend what the sight of a rattler does. Must have been bit in a previous life.;:;rofl

 

[Wild and Free]

https://www.facebook.com/whatweseee/videos/1146669675370085/

 

[SDMF]

Originally Posted by SDMF I can say for certain Wags doesn't like a Praying Mantis in the flesh. This one time, at band camp, Wags found a mantis crawling around on the outside of his hoody whist he was wearing it. I rolled his window down from the driver's seat and told him to just throw it out. This was previous to my enlightenment of hisdisdain for anything with more than 4 legs. I still chuckle wryly as I replay that whole cluster-sprinkle scenario in my noggin. In fact, it's probably funnier now because it's been long enough that I suspect I remember some of the details in an exaggerated fashion.

Regarding the OP. If the SnakePit doesn't involve a lead guitarist named "Slash", you can leave me out.

this is all really hilarious....

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they do in fact pinch, btw

It's been long enough, you can embellish, he damned near took a finger off!

 

[Kurtr]

ok I did. what's the point if this roundup? the human deserves to get bit. you don't see my white ass cruising around south central, or scuba diving off seal island

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I like living where the air hurts my face half of the year. keeps creepy crawlers at bay for the most part

after my 6 months in Ft Sill Ok and dumping scorpions out of boots and seeing spiders that looked like geese in their webs i said i will never live south of mason dixion line. They have 2 seasons hot and mother fu*&ing hotter. Nope i like cold that kills shit that can kill me

 

[guywhofishes]

I confess that back in the day with no air conditioning a large grasshopper would occasionally fly in the pickup window on a prairie trail and clutch my jugular. yeeeesh. I Wagged out many times.

One time it was a bee and stung my neck. Geez was I pissed off.

 

[Wild and Free]

Ha Ha you guys that hate bugs ever have to change teeth on a swadder header cycle on a hot summer / fall day in a hay field will witness bugs that one could only imagine on a foreign planet crawling around on the header would get you to running away real fast.

 

[johnr]

I picked up a log out camping one time, figured I would carry it back to our camp area for the fire pit. Suddenly my arm was on fire, felt like I was bit by a damn snake or something, turned out it was an ant log of some sort, and about 500 ants didn't like me messing with their home. Sonsabitches can them army ants, or fire ants, or whatever kind of ant they were put the pain in a guys arms in seconds flat. After dropping the log, and realizing what was happening, I put on a long sleeve shirt, and some leather gloves, brought the log back to the fire pit and burned them bastards alive.

 

[guywhofishes]

ha ha ha.. classic johnr

 

[Captain Ahab]

I confess that back in the day with no air conditioning a large grasshopper would occasionally fly in the pickup window on a prairie trail and clutch my jugular. yeeeesh. I Wagged out many times.

One time it was a bee and stung my neck. Geez was I pissed off.

I got stung in the neck once as well. Expletives were spewing forth like a teenagers vodka projectile vomit. Man that hurt.

 

[tikkalover]

Took this picture when I was in Mexico. This grasshopper is 3.5 inches long.

 

[Captain Ahab]

Don't be fooled by the innocent grasshopper either. Those bastards can bite with their mandible. Got surprised when I was a kid.

 

[snow]

x2,wilest fishing Oahe a couple years back we had a 5'er visit us on a hot summer day while we were rigging boards,damn near made it in the back of our ranger.

You guyz ever watch Bill Dance's bloopers? Man he hated snakes,funny as hell!

One of many~

http://www.wideopenspaces.com/ever-see-that-time-when-a-snake-dropped-in-on-bill-dance/

 

[Account Deleted]

I confess that back in the day with no air conditioning a large grasshopper would occasionally fly in the pickup window on a prairie trail and clutch my jugular. yeeeesh. I Wagged out many times.

One time it was a bee and stung my neck. Geez was I pissed off.

And thus the term "Wagged out" was born.

 

[MathewsZman]

I confess that back in the day with no air conditioning a large grasshopper would occasionally fly in the pickup window on a prairie trail and clutch my jugular. yeeeesh. I Wagged out many times.

One time it was a bee and stung my neck. Geez was I pissed off.

Be thankful it wasn't one of these :

 

[guywhofishes]

it's those barbs on the back legs that gets a guy when they go down your shirt - that and they ruin your shirt with their tobacco juice puke

 

[MathewsZman]

 

[snow]

Lot of meat on those hind quarters...

 

[Duckslayer100]

That guys seriously needs to work on his technique! He definitely needs more heat in that balloon and about a foot more flipping balloon! That was taking way to big of a risk for jack shit of a reward!

I should have guess that, among your many other accolades, you were also an expert rattlesnake handler.

 

[deleted_account]

I should have guess that, among your many other accolades, you were also an expert rattlesnake handler.

Lol'd