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re: Now I know why they call them timber rattlers…
Posted on 10/6/23 at 9:55 am to Outdoorreb
Posted on 10/6/23 at 9:55 am to Outdoorreb
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they put transmitters on some and they were shocked because a bunch were in trees. (I can’t remember the %, but it was enough to shock biologists)
I've heard about this too. I choose to pretend they don't exist 99% of the time I'm in the woods.
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Posted on 10/6/23 at 2:56 pm to LSUA 75
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They were surprisingly unaggressive.
This confirms what I have read in several articles. Normally unaggressive,
When I was a kid, an old-timer warned me about timber rattlers. He told me "they come looking for you". Another man said they could "leap 10 feet to strike".
I think those old guys were prone to some real exaggeration.
This post was edited on 10/6/23 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 10/6/23 at 3:00 pm to Clyde Tipton
have never seen one in a tree except for during floods
Posted on 10/6/23 at 5:43 pm to Jaspermac
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They will get up in beech trees in the spring and prey on baby squirrels.
Climbing into the upper limbs of any big tree to get at the squirrel nest???
I would have to see it to believe it.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 6:22 pm to Clyde Tipton
If that somb fell upon me I’d shite myself as I died. 
Posted on 10/6/23 at 7:32 pm to 308
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I would have to see it to believe it.
See what? A rattlesnake in a tree?
Posted on 10/6/23 at 10:51 pm to Outdoorreb
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See what? A rattlesnake in a tree?
I said the "upper limbs" of a big tree. Most squirrel nests seem to me to be way up in the UPPER part of big trees. A big beech, hickory, or white oak can easily get 80-100 feet tall.
So I would have to SEE a timber rattler that FAR up in a big tree raiding a squirrel nest to BELIEVE it.
I just don't think they would go that high up.
Could be wrong, but I don't think so.
This post was edited on 10/6/23 at 10:54 pm
Posted on 10/6/23 at 11:17 pm to TigrrrDad
I need to find the pictures at my mothers/grandmothers house of what a pit viper does to a 8 year olds leg, back in 1988. It wasn’t fun, it sucked pretty fricking bad and hurt like a SOB. I’ll let a Kingsnake pass,outside of that, all bets are off.
Posted on 10/7/23 at 12:39 pm to Clyde Tipton
Stepped on one last year during early bow season. If it had been an eastern I might not be here typing this.
Posted on 10/7/23 at 12:43 pm to Honest Tune
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Pretty snake
Prettiest snake in this part of the country, but the idea of that thing in a tree is nightmare fuel
Posted on 10/8/23 at 12:18 pm to Clyde Tipton
Well now I have something to think about while wading through the flooded timber this winter…
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