[Takasaki]

Yikes

 

[higun]

7-1/2 or 8's??

 

[Charlie Becknell]

Did he rattle when he shook?

 

[plaw]

Glad all we deal with is water and Wasp

 

[Swampy16]

There are rattlers in Canada?

 

[flashmax]

Did he rattle when he shook?

Does he roll on a stroll?

 

[Battle37]

Does he roll on a stroll?

He lunges.

 

[Speedluvn]

Damn! Why did you have to post this picture? I have often thought, while refilling the clay stacks, about encountering a snake in the trap house.

 

[Joe Hunter]

Looks like a prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis).

 

[Carl_in_NH]

All we ever seem to find in our trap house are mice that died of boredom after eating the wiring of the Pat Trap.

 

[stokinpls]

Dang!

How many trips were made to reload the trap that evening? Better give the trap help a pay increase.

Bob Falfa

 

[handlepuller]

So I guess now I can’t go to Canada.

 

[Speedluvn]

So I guess now I can’t go to Canada.

You may want to change that to being unable to go into any trap house.

 

[perazzidave]

Dang!

How many trips were made to reload the trap that evening? Better give the trap help a pay increase.

Bob Falfa

I'm guessing a unplanned trip to clean his shorts,

 

[waldedw]

Yup southern Alberta has some big rattlers, I hate snakes, one of the biggest I have seen was at Paradise Canyon golf course in Lethbridge, did I say I hate snakes

Now I know why the shoots in Medicine Hat are called the " Rattler Classic " 😂

 

[perazzidave]

So I guess now I can’t go to Canada.

Haven't been able to for the last 15 months and counting,

 

[Fishjager]

So I take it the guy reloading the trap is now armed? At least a pistol with bird shot, or in this case snake shot. I also hate snakes. Especially copperheads and cottonmouths, they don't warn you, they just attack. East Tennessee has all of the above, and bugs.

 

[Old_Diabetic_100]

Fortunately I never encountered any rattlesnakes working in the bush in Alberta, BC, the Yukon and NWT, but the furthest south I went was Grande Prairie. I had some riggers working for me from Southern Alberta and they said they had rattlers down there.

Throwback Thursday: Rattlesnakes!

www.canadiangeographic.ca

I spent 10 days working as a field referee at the NSSA World Shoot in San Antonio in 1975. I was always very careful indeed when I went into any low house first thing each morning to get the release button and cord.

 

[Swampy16]

Ya, I hate snakes just as much. I would be very careful entering a trap house after that. Forty years down the road I’d still have that in the back of my head each time. I can not imagine being bitten by one.