if you live in the forest/mountain/desert/etc. area you know of these annoying little bastards. basicly what this topic is for, is that my dad just shot one of the buggers. so i was typing in the "What pisses you off?" or somethin topic when i heard the words "Lola (teh cat) got *muffled* rattlesnake" so i go upstairs to my mom standing on the deck and my dad hiking up a hill in rain boots, armed with a shovel, flashlight, and bb gun with a single shot. theres the loud rattling sound during all of this, and my mom says "Sam, careful! we need more light! Sam!" being as nervous as ever, and then we hear the quiet *POW* of the bb gun and the rattleing stops instantly. now my guess is that my dad is cutting off it's rattle and adding it to his "collection" of them. time for you to post your rattle snake stories. no rattle snakes? then any type of snakes. no snakes at all? then a sybling(same thing right). no sybling? post somewhere else
Edit fer moar info: the rattling stopped cause the first shot when through the tail hitting some nerves n' stuff, then in the torso as it tried to escape, and the final shot through the head. cut the head and rattle off with a machete. judging by the rattle it was 13 years old
