re: Some snakes killed in the pine belt this last week

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Rattlesnakes are actually pretty docile snakes. Before I started leaving them alone, I found it is hard to even make them rattle.
It is an old wives' tale that they will rattle when you get near. Last year i stepped about two inches from one and it never moved. I was marking timber and hit him with a spot of blue paint. He STILL didn't rattle. i left him alone. When i went by there about a half hour later, he had moved on.

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Yea, I've read through adaptation or some shite like that, they now have instincts to not rattle and make themselves known because of persecution nowadays from humans and being tramples by other large animals such as horses and cows. Mothu frickin' Nature! I killed a 5' last year by my lease near Poplarville.