Cholla Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 I hunt rattlesnakes as a hobby and make things out of their bones and skin. I have harvested hundreds since the mid 1980s so I thought was was fairly well versed on what can and can't happen. I killed a snake at sunset Friday. I cut the head off and placed the body in a small cooler with some blue ice for the night as it was too late to skin. The next morning, about 13 hours after I had cut the head off I pulled the body out of the cooler and it immediately started withering about. I placed it on my skinning board and flipped it over and it instantly started flinging about to turn upright. I flipped it over and it did it again. It kept doing this as I was trying to cut down the belly scales with my scissors. It began rolling, coiling, and flipping so hard I was having a hard time holding onto it. at times it even seemed to be trying to strike at my scissors hand. I decided to cut another inch off the neck just in case there was part of the brain still left (not likely) but it had no effect. After a great deal of work I was able to make the cut all the way down to his vent. The thrashing finally stopped when I pulled the skin off. I got to admit it was really freaky. Sometimes I have a snake jerk or slowly move, but nothing like this. At times it was coiling and rattling its tail violently. It had to be all involuntary responses because with no brain, no sensory organs, and no blood flow there couldn't be thought behind the movement but it still freaked me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 You should have made a video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Were their any babies inside? Of, down inside your cooler? ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cholla Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 I thought about it. My wife was watching from inside the sliding glass door and she was freaking out as well. I was going to have her make a video but I didn't have a shirt on and I figured FB would decide the video was some sort of porn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cholla Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 1 minute ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said: Were their any babies inside? Of, down inside your cooler? ..........Widder No babies. I keep an eye out for that kind of thing. I have found half digested mice in some. I'm sure in some parts of the world some sort of delicacy would have been made from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 What is “blue ice?” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 3 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said: What is “blue ice?” That plastic stuff you put in the freezer and then in your cooler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 7 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: That plastic stuff you put in the freezer and then in your cooler. Good stuff OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Just don't open one and put the blue stuff in your drinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Cholla said: I thought about it. My wife was watching from inside the sliding glass door and she was freaking out as well. I was going to have her make a video but I didn't have a shirt on and I figured FB would decide the video was some sort of porn! Zombie headless rattlesnake porn. Available now on Netflix and Amazon Prime. Must see quality entertainment. Heck, I talked my self into it......when's the debut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Definitely weird, Cholla. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 I was bitten by a rattlesnake over the summer, while we were camping. After two days of horrible, writhing agony, the snake died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Walking/running motions involve mostly spinal cord reflexes. Looks like slithering is a spinal reflex too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashknife Cowboy Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Found this fellow in a parking lot at Ben Avery where Winter Range is held....all the warnings are true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawhorse Kid Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 You were being haunted by its ghost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Any pins, tacks, or other metal stuck in the snake at the time? Luigi Galvani thought he had discovered "animal electricity", the supposed animating force of life, when he was dissecting frog legs and they twitched. What he did not understand was that two dissimilar metals (brass hooks and iron scalpel), immersed in the tissues and fluids of the frog, formed a basic battery, causing the leg muscles to contract and the leg to "move". Which reminds me of the story of the university biology professor. Working in his laboratory with frogs, he first noted that an intact frog would jump 4 times when prompted by saying "Jump, frog!". He amputated one of the frog's legs, again said "Jump, frog!" and found that now the frog jumped only 3 times. He amputated a second limb, again commanded "Jump, frog!", and watched the frog jump just twice. Another amputation followed by "Jump, frog!" produced just one jump. Finally, he amputated the last leg, and repeated his command..."Jump, frog!", but saw no reaction. He repeated the command, "Jump, frog!" No reaction. The professor's conclusion? Amputation of all of a frog's legs causes him to go deaf. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Willie Nelson Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 19 hours ago, Cholla said: I got to admit it was really freaky. Sometimes I have a snake jerk or slowly move, but nothing like this. At times it was coiling and rattling its tail violently. It had to be all involuntary responses because with no brain, no sensory organs, and no blood flow there couldn't be thought behind the movement but it still freaked me out. Eerie! Similarly, right before July 4th weekend, I came home to the Hill Country after working in Houston all week. About an hour before I got home, my son "Killed" one by stabbing it a few times in the head with a frog gig.Upon my arrival he told me to out towards our burn pile and see the one that he killed. I walked out and told him I didn't see anything. He came out and said, "He was right here." I reminded him, "You have to cut off their heads" Evidently that don't work always, either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulp, SASS#28319 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Watching the butcher pen at a rattlesnake roundup is interesting. The headless, skinned carcasses will work their way out of the bucket and start crawling across the floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Pulp, SASS#28319 said: Watching the butcher pen at a rattlesnake roundup is interesting. The headless, skinned carcasses will work their way out of the bucket and start crawling across the floor. OK, guys... Eastern dude here... What's a "rattlesnake round-up"???? LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Seeing is believing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U6TfBBN8vqs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Small cooler and blue ice was too cold. Less cold and it would have thrashed about in the cooler without a witness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 So, Cholla... do ya eat 'em~? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Rattlesnake Round-up nope Imis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 4 minutes ago, Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 said: Rattlesnake Round-up nope Imis Awe c'mon, just think of the cool hatband you could put on that big ol' tent hat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 On 8/16/2020 at 9:50 AM, Cholla said: No babies. I keep an eye out for that kind of thing. I have found half digested mice in some. I'm sure in some parts of the world some sort of delicacy would have been made from it. Don't advertise that or we might be quarantined again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 I live in central NC, some 75 miles west of the line where moccasins exist, so says the NC Natural Resources. I this photo of one not two miles from my doorstep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 We were warned as children to look out for them when we played in the woods behind my grandparents' house. Rutherfordton, NC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 5 hours ago, Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 said: Rattlesnake Round-up nope Imis Ditto! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 7 hours ago, Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 said: OK, guys... Eastern dude here... What's a "rattlesnake round-up"???? LL Way cross, Ga has a rattlesnake roundup with eastern Diamondbacks, canbrakes and pygmies every year. I used to live in Brunswick and work in forestry research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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