So there I was...

Eric, man, what IS it with you and rattlers? :D

And, you pegged him with a f.ucking ROCK, fer Christ's sake? What do you do when you're off the farm, moonlight for a pro baseball team? :D
 
Eric had to bring this one up again!
Thats a f****ing cool pic,
Make yourself a belt or some boot tips!!!!
 
Nice shot Eric, though I think last year's might have been more impressive.
37"? Damn, if he was a little longer, I woulda asked you to make me a choker collar for me :D
Maybe next time you should just put him in a box and send em to Mayo.

Dave
 
Dave and strider4112, thanks for the kind words, guys. :)

Derek Iverson, I'm a rancher. My wife and I raise the finest Angora Goats in the country, and these goats yield many pounds of fiber known as mohair. Mohair is worth a fortune, and it allows for us to live a pretty decent life. Occassionally a rattler comes along and tags one of the herd. When this happens I lose a $600-$800 animal, plus the money in feed that I have invested in that animal, plus the loss of fiber that the animal would've produced throughout it's lifetime, plus the loss of any offspring that the animal may have eventually produced. In other words, one lousy reptile can end up costing me several thousand dollars very quickly. And I don't appreciate that at all. So when I see a rattler I make it a point to neutralize it, just as I would make it a point to neutralize any creature that threatens the livelihood or future of my family.
So you and your dad play with rattlers although your dad has been bitten twice? And then you give them a hug and a kiss and send them on their way so that they can kill someone's livestock? Good for you; you have chosen to drop yourself several notches down on the food chain.
You pet and cuddle rattlers.
I slice and dice rattlers.
Between the two of us it will all work out. When I butcher one, you can comfort it's relatives so that all of the little baby rattlers won't grow up traumatized and in need of therapy.
Man, go hug a tree or something, but don't ever ask me to not kill something that I've developed an instinct to kill.

Here's a pic for the Suspects. :)
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Hey Eric-
Is that the one that you popped with your '23?
I'm a live and let live kinda guy, but I draw the line at poisonous snakes and all spiders.
had a dog die when I was young from a seemingly harmless rattler bite.
They can frolic and slither all they want to, just not on my turf.
Besides, it's not like they have redeemable qualities, like those cute baby seals people club!
cheers,
Derek
 
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