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OldBow:
This is good thread.
I taught biology for 33 years and pretty much preached "if you don't eat it, don't kill it".  I studied spiders in grad school and don't kill them either and certainly don't eat them.
I'll guarantee you  that I would definately eat rattlesnake if offered up.  Anyway, if the snake is used for bow skins, then harvesting them is reasonable. I admire some of the "snake skins" done with paint or pens that some of you guys are talented enough to do.
Montana is not a very snakey state and our prairie rattlers don't get very big.  Rarely would one be big enough for  bow backing.
I never kill them and like to watch their behavior.
Two stories surfaced this early summer, though, about two painful snake bites victims that were darn glad a hospital was not too far off.  One fellow's young son had to row his Dad across a big river to get help for him.

Justin Snyder:
Well said Don.    Snakes can be dangerous. Just remember, in 87% of rattlesnake bite cases, alcohol was involved.  In the words of Jeff Corwin, "I don't think the snake was drinking."  Anybody who has killed a rattler and cut off the rattles and left the rest has missed a great tasting treat. Justin

Hillbilly:
Nice haul of skins. I love the way those timber rattlers look on a bow, but I wouldn't kill one around here now- they're getting too scarce. Looks like you still have plenty there, though-believe I'd want to wear stovepipes on my legs if I did much walking around on that farm lol. I like snakes and hate to see people killing them for no reason, but a set of nice skins and a mess of snake meat is a pretty durn good reason.

GregB:
Nice looking skins, I'm with Hillbilly...I think I'd be wearing some snake leggin's while hunting them. Havn't eaten rattler, but would like to try it. I've gotten a couple of copperheads in the last couple of months. One isn't long enough to go full length of a limb though. :)

Pappy:
Don't find many Copper heads around here big enough for a bow,now and ten I hit one with the bushhog and I always save them till I get another or someone else dose to match.I use a lot of skins but we don't have any Rattlers on my place at all,They are all around us just not there for some reason.I get most of mine from the county road crew that hits them while cleaning the right of way so I get several a year.In Tennessee it is illegal to kill any snake and especially Timber rattlers.
    Pappy  :)

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