Scored a TimberRattler skin today! (Pics added)

madness522 · August 05, 2007, 06:13:00 PM

Nice rattler. Thanks for the skin-a-long. I hope to score on a rattler or copperhead one of these days. I have a bow with a black glass back that I want to put skins on.

BigRonHuntAlot · August 05, 2007, 06:16:00 PM

Chuck, That's a nice skin. Congrats on the fleshing too. Tell the kids Hi for me.

Talondale · August 20, 2007, 12:17:00 PM

Got another one today. Not as big or old but same color scheme. I'll try the tube out method kojac mentioned to see if that has less meat on the belly. I'll also try your pinesol tip 4nolz. I need to get them to find me some copperheads now.

Talondale · August 20, 2007, 12:52:00 PM

Well, the tubing method didn't seem to prevent anymore tissue from being attached than the slit and pull method, in fact it may have had more. It was also more difficult until the top of the skin got past the tail so I could pull directly, it was easier after that point but you're already half done by then. This one has a little more of a grey tone overall. I'll post pics after I flesh it out.

VA Bowbender · August 20, 2007, 08:42:00 PM

Chuck,
My wife comes from down Grundy, VA. She has 4 different parcels of land that I hope to get some rattlers from. A guy that lives across from one piece of property told me he killed 3 last fall that were 6"+ and fat as your legs calf.

Talondale · August 20, 2007, 09:51:00 PM

Well it was overcast after work so I just popped it in the freezer until this weekend.

I'm not sure I'd want to be messing with a 6' rattler. LOL. Do they make snake proof chest waders? I'd need them in order to get after one that size or a LOOOOONG snake pole. This one was fat and about 3' I guess but only one button.

Osagetree · August 20, 2007, 10:30:00 PM

Chuck, Thanks for sharing the pics!!!

redeemed · August 21, 2007, 01:22:00 AM

I always liked snakes, reminds me of the day my dad and i were clearing a roadway of trees and we stopped for lunch. My dad always worked 11 to 7am then worked on the cabin he was hand building, anyway he fell asleep in the cab of the truck, and as I left him get his well deserved over due rest I saw red tailed hawks carrying at least 6 rattlers above me in the sky.(obviously not all at once) we had logged off the property a few yrs back and I killed 13 rattlers that yr. all yellow phase timbers.Thanx for including us, brings back a special time I'll never have again as dad went home 2-13-99.

John Stockman · August 21, 2007, 10:36:00 AM

A few years ago, a motorist ran over a timber rattler at the end of my driveway (on Blue Ridge Mountain Road in Clarke County, Va). I asked the mororist if I could examine the snake. He agreed to my request. I had just read an article in a "Outdoor Life" that said that the majority of poisionous snake bites were caused by people handling "dead" snakes. I wanted to see the snake's fangs, so I squeezed its mouth open and pried his fangs forward with a tiny twig. All the while, I was thinking about the magazine article. This particular snake had vivid green stripes. It had seven rattles and was about three feet long and fat--a beautiful reptile.

John Stockman