RattleSnake Twenty yrds eyeball
My wife noticed this lurking in the back yard, I opened the kitchen window knocked out the screen and popped him in the eye with my new .20 condor. It was my first kill with the new toy and I gotta say I was super impressed. I bought it for squirrels at longer ranges and other than the noise and the rather odd trajectory of .20 at 1080 fps it looks like its gonna work
talk about pest control!
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yeah probably an hour and a half from gulf shores maybe less not that far, and heck yeah man I got a pretty good spot for squirrels its near a pecan orchard and if it goes down like last year and the trees aren’t nude before hunting season its a riot watching them strip acorns completely oblivious to whats going on around them you can practically walk up and club em.. last year I shot 3 off the same limb in about 35 seconds with my marauder gonna have to buy a shroud for the condor. ya know if my marauder weren’t so damned heavy itd be my favorite gun. right now im lovin this condor Id really like to try an fx boss or daystate 308 and yes I would pay 2000 or better for an air rifle but only if I could demo one first and it met my expectations. I just dropped a thousand dollars on a new spraygun and I didn’t demo one first and guess what it sucks!
Pretty close to the Florida panhandle? Maybe some day we could get together to hunt or something. I have a good friend in Elkmont AL that I hunt with. He is also a big Air Force fan.
way down here in Greenville, about 50 miles down i65 from montgomery
Where in Alabama are you Ryan? I’m in middle Tennessee! I’m always willing to travel a bit to shoot with someone.
I didn’t eat the snake guys call me paranoid but when I shot the snake “in the eye” it ruptured the venom bladder above his eye. I’m not sure the hemotoxic venom entered his bloodstream but I do know 100% that it wasn’t going to enter mine via my digestive tract. I live a few miles from opp Alabama and they have a Rattlesnake rodeo every year. I like rattler meat but just didn’t wanna risk poisoning myself. It probably would have been fine but you never know. to me it tastes very much like frog legs and alligator tail. still good better than chicken in fact.
Well, did you eat the rattler?
Normally I personally would not kill one of them with the exception of when I run across one close to the house. I cannot have them hanging around where my wife might stumble across it. They are delicious when slow fried in butter, but they can be a bit chewy.
And no, they do not taste like chicken.
That’s a big timber rattler!! Nice work!!
That’s so friggin cool! There will always be more rabbits, I, personally, would grill up that snake. Rattlesnake is a sweet white meat.
My wife and I have a pet snake that looks like that after eating a rat, totally bloated!
This is what the huge knot in his belly was. I had been watching this rabbit at the edge of my yard for almost a month waiting for hunting season so I could eat it. Stupid predator beat me to it! I was still ecstatic for getting the snake but really bummed about the rabbit!
That’s awesome Ryan! That’s a whole lot more of a threat than a squirrel. Did you skin it? Think of how cool a rattlesnake sling would look on that new rifle. Especially if it’s one you shot yourself. Good job!
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I’ve got 20,800 acres of wildlife management area about an hour from my house here in Tennessee. Excellent squirrel hunting and promises to be a got spot to take some deer with my bow this year. Spring squirrel was not too good this year. The canopy was too thick and it was too hot. They just were not moving. Fall season opens end of August. Limit here is 10 / day.