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Offline UtahChippewa

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Fresh skins!
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:40:16 pm »
On my home from work today there happened to be a very large and fresh rattle snake that had just been ran over. So I stopped and was checking it out and decided that's a nice skin and figured the dead snake didn't need it anymore. So I smashed it's head well enough it wouldn't do me any harm and put it on the tailgate to skin it.... So without a head it's body didn't want any part of the skinning and kept moving and rattling. I just couldn't get over the fact that snake couldn't bite me and gave up, closed the tailgate, headed down the road. Psyching myself up again I stopped and tried again... Still couldn't do it, it had to been the constant rattling. So heading down the road again. Finally after another mile I got out and finally got the courage to skin that dang thing. Anybody had any experiences like that or am I the only mambie pambie here?
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Fresh skins!
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2016, 10:47:57 pm »
They don't bother me at all.  Next time take a knife and remove the head.  Then you have nothing to worry about.  If you give them a while the nerves quit firing and they don't move anymore.
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Offline BowEd

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Re: Fresh skins!
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2016, 11:39:20 pm »
An old myth the snake don't die till sundown or the turtle head don't die till sundown is just that an old myth.A little creepy though I guess.Congrats on your score.
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Offline Zuma

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Re: Fresh skins!
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2016, 12:12:15 am »
That's only true if you try to kill the reptile before noon. >:D
Snappers and rattle snakes die/stop moving very slowly.
When I hunted Diamondbacks in FL and TX, I would pop them on the head
with a 1" pvc pipe to knock them out. Put them in a burlap bag and drown
them in the river. They would still be sucking air hours later. This was so
you didn't damage the head so it would be a whole skin lips and all.
Skinning around the fangs always freaked me out. Kinda freaks me right now.
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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Re: Fresh skins!
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2016, 11:06:01 am »
Also the reason that you cut up a snake to cook, and not just coil it up in the pan.

If you do live in Utah keep in mind that All native rattle snakes are protected here, you can't even have a skin.
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Offline bjrogg

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Re: Fresh skins!
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2016, 05:21:28 pm »
That's gotta be a bummer Jo Jo, does that mean you can't have a bow backed with snake from another state?
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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Re: Fresh skins!
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2016, 06:05:47 pm »
As long as it isn't a native species I can. Timber rattlers are fine.
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