Me and my buddy Lenny hunt rattlers. We do it the lazy man way though, riding the government roads on summer afternoons looking for snakes sunning in the road. Then you just have to get out and get ahold of them with a snare and cut the heads off and throw them in the back of the truck. The year before last we got like 5 rattlesnakes and 10 or 12 copperheads. Another friend of ours tans the hides for us.

Two years ago on the first day of squirrel season in October, he killed a really nice rattler. He walked up on it all coiled up and i guess being mid oct. it was too cold to strike because he kicked it a few times and it just slowly squirmed around and curled back into a ball. He eventually killed it, it was 52 inches from where he cut the head off too the end of the tail and had 13 rattles and a button.

Everyone thinks we are crazy for actually looking for them and then getting out of the truck and messing with them but heck its a small town and you need something to keep you occupied