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BowEd:
Very good haul of snakes there.I'd be interested in trading for the bull snake.How long was it?

mullet:
Nice batch of skins. I think I saw snakes every day I went hunting in our five weeks of turkey season.

Handforged:
This was only about 2 hours of gathering. I let a bunch of smaller snakes go.  I can only handle about 10 at a time, I mean that many fill up half a sheet of ply wood to get them dry. I don't want them sitting all over the shop, I don't need that many. I could have brought home maybe 20 or more if I wasn't so picky.

Handforged:

--- Quote from: Pappy on April 30, 2020, 06:09:19 am ---Nice catch, I love skins on bows. :)
 Pappy

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Pappy there is nothing better than an Osage self bow with a big canebrake rattler backing. We only have the smaller prairie rattlers out here who are naturally lighter brown, even orange some of them. I still think the canebrake looks better.

Handforged:

--- Quote from: bjrogg on April 30, 2020, 05:49:58 am ---Well that looks like a good days hunt to me. That’s probably more snakes than I have seen here in my entire 59 years. Well maybe not, but close. Lots bigger than our garters to.

I would like to try some snake meat sometime. The other white meat.

I’m guessing if you wanted to trade those skins. You’d have some interest.

Bjrogg

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I started hunting snakes when I was a kid for the rattle snake roundups. My dad, uncles and grandfather went every year. I would tag along until I could handle a snake on my own and that was all she wrote. We'd hunt snakes for days on end bringing in hundreds sometimes. My wife had never eaten anything like that before meeting me. I deep fried some rattle snake for her when we were dating and she would ask if we could go get some more. That's how you know she's a keeper.  I use a snake hook and a belt knife. I don't approve of shooting them. I know that sounds hypocritical but I believe there should be fair chase. Sometimes the snake gets away, lost a few yesterday. To me that's part of it. Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose but in the end there is always plenty. I think those 10 snakes made about 15 pounds of meat or more. (there's not a lot to a snake after skinning and gutting).

I soak the in garlic salty water for the night and roll them in "snake and bake" before dropping them in the fryer.  It's definitely worth eating.

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