This rattlesnake was by my mailbox a couple days ago. I dont like them in the yard. The only thing handy was my son's old little.league bat. It is inly 26 inches but did the job. Next time I'll get the mail when it isn't dark.

theres two very big timber rattlers around the house . closes i seen of them is half a pictures . i ever see them in the yard or shed they gone .


thats a full grown one

Rattlesnakes are no joke. They’re far worse than copperheads and cottonmouths. Timber rattler venom has also changed in chemical composition the last few decades. It has neurotoxins and hemotoxins. Most snakes primarily do one or the other, but not both.

I'd be taking sight pictures in those instances.

You guys will think I'm crazy, but I only kill rattlesnakes if they are in my yard. I saw 5 different ones on my road last year that I made sure to move away so nobody would run them over. A couple I had to move 2 or 3 times. I saw 3 more in the woods that I left alone. Timber rattlesnakes are typically pretty docile. Even when I move them I rarely get one that will strike at me. Their habitat is really shrinking and with all the others killing every one they see I feel the need to protect them. They can live up to 50 years, so killing a few really hurts the population. I know of over 20 that were killed on our place last year and that isnt counting the ones killed on the road that I didnt see. So, I try to do my part to save as many as I can.

Though when they get in my yard where my kids play that is where I draw the line.