Look Out elk hunting and scouoting can be dangerous

[Lefty]

Sort of tounge-in-cheek.
Dave is going to hunt with me a few times this year. Tuesday I brought the wrong SD card home so yesterday we drove out to switch it out. Driving down the road we both heard this fellow, evidently didnt like the clatter of Daves diesel.
Dave and I are both 15 year transplants; 5 years each in Utah and 10 in Idaho Hes is from Missiori Im from Minnesota and we both married Idaho girls

This fellow was the third rattler Ive seen in my life. Two last year, one this year.
This one was on a scouting trip, one last year on an elk scouting trip and one the last day I archery elk hunted.
This was also Dave third rattler,.. One on a hike, one elk hunting and this guy.
We both talked about the three each time the snake gave plenty of fair warning,...

Im not afraid of snakes, but a bite iwhere we hunt does cause me some concern

Enjoy

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[Pop-r]

Luckily no snakes where i hunt. Winters are way too much for them!

[elkaholic]

Hate running into these guys. Have seen more than I care to count..

[bnsafe]

never saw a live one in the wild, but if and when I do I will be moving locations, and trying to clean an dry my shorts. man I hate snakes

[elk-n-walleye]

Any time I see a rattler I think about someone's pets, livestock, children or anyone's safety for that matter and I do what I can to kill it. Albeit from a distance. Knowing one of those is slithering around an area that I visit, and I could have removed it, is unnerving. In the country I'll toss large rocks on its head until the job is done. Fortunately I've only come across three in my life. Not a huge impact but that's three fewer that others have not had to deal with.

Be safe!

[BobcatJerry]

How high can you expect to find them. We hunted one year and asked local if there would be rattle snakes, and he said it was too high. 7000', later that week we saw one in the road, dead at 6300'. Anybody know?

[fm]

Last year one of the oil rig guys killed one a 1/4 mile from our camp. 7600 ft.

[WapitiTalk1]

Nasty things.. Had the pigmy rattlers in Plains, MT when I lived there.

[mtnmutt]

CO <8,000 ft