Encounter any of these while summer shed hunting?

NVPete · Jul 30, 2009

I haven't yet...this one,though,was an uninvited guest at a family picnic!!

never_catch · Jul 30, 2009

I'd run away screaming like an 8 year old girl if I came across that thing while out shed hunting!! Snakes spiders n fags scare me to death...bleh gives me the pee shivers just lookin at it!!

~Z~

cjduck · Jul 30, 2009

I'd be moving my picnic if I ran in to one! Never seen one alive, and never hope to!

fatrooster · Jul 31, 2009

I ran into three of them in early June while shed hunting. That was my last trip of 2009. Now its June 31st and my archery season begins tomorrow. I will be keeping my eyes peeled. fatrooster.

elkantler75 · Jul 31, 2009

anybody need some boots!!

bigandtiney · Jul 31, 2009

I've been surprised by how few I've seen... I found this one, but he was too unconcerned with me to coil... I do know that hundreds of birds and insects have made me flinch because I though they were rattlers! : )

Big And Tiney

On your way up the mountain, don't forget to look back and enjoy the view.

Ungulate · Jul 31, 2009

Funny how to nvpete that would be an unwelcomed guest at his picnic where as if it were my family I would probably need about 8-9 more for a full meal.

NVPete · Jul 31, 2009

Right on, Ung.! I have eaten them, sorta like frog legs, or a cross between chicken and chewing gum in texture! Once, on a wilderness survival exercise, my scouts and I ate a big one... we learned you have to have a lot of them for a meal!But we all had a taste... I always wondered how many moms would let me take their boys camping again!

ARCHERYBUG · Jul 31, 2009

I like the way you think Ung !!!! They are good !!!!!!!!!

slamdunk · Jul 31, 2009

I just chambered a round in my 12ga........

cjboz · Aug 2, 2009

I killed about a 4 footer the other night on the way home from scouting. I went arrow head hunting yesterday in some thick stuff and only found a coach whip. I have only killed about 5 this year compared to about 20 this time last year.

cjboz · Aug 3, 2009

Went out again last night scouting and ran across one. I was set up watching some bucks out in a field for about an hour. All of a sudden some quail flushed about 8 feet from me and then a rattle started going off he was about 5 foot from me. Went back to the pick-up to get the 22 pistol and he was gone. needless to say wasn't going to look for him. I think he sensed my body heat or he was after the quail? SOBs!! Some some dandy bucks though. 150-160 whiteys. I sure wish I was scouting muleys instead!!