I've told this before, but it's the only way I've eaten rattle snake. I was working in the mountains and drove up & down the hill a couple of times a week. There was a bar & small hotel at the end of one of the hair pin turns in the road. The bar tender was a retired boxer names Sully. The ranchers in the area would kill rattlers and freeze them. After they got a few, they'd bring them to Sully. He would cook them up and make a meat salad like tuna or chicken salad out of them. He'd put it in a big party bowl with different kinds of crackers around the base and customers would eat it for free. It was really good.

Nice work. Good eating, but I hate those damn things.

I haven't had snake, but my wife says it is pretty good. The meat salad sounds pretty good actually.

I don't care what your wife says, I ain't eatin your meat salad. Doc still says YOU'RE GONNA DIE. ;)

hahahha..one of the all time classic best jokes. well played.

Skinned and tanned. 44/45 inches. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1494037874.jpg

For those of you who may not have seen the original thread on this subject click here:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/480552-making-rattlesnake-belt-warning-potential-gagging-photos.html

Hugh - I was considering buying your house.....NOT NOW......

Just needs Notfarnow's marketing skilz....

FREE RATTLERS!

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1494105699.jpg

Biggest sucker I've dispatched. 15 Rattles. You don't have to be too brave with a 12 gauge six feet away. Took a divet out of my asphalt.

I found a baby Copperhead in my pool skimmer last week. He was still swimming....

Wait, what? All of that mountain hiking and hunting and stuff, how could you need a belt longer than 48"? What are you the Asian Paul Bunyon? Are you getting your inches and centimeters confused? I've always pictured you as looking more like a less ripped, more jovial Bruce Lee.

Does the number of rattles have any correlation to the age of the snake ?

I'm a neighbor (live near COC)
Daughter lives in Agua Dulce, and had a four foot rattler slithering past her back slider door last week.
Had a garter snake pop up onto her windshield while driving, the week prior. The County FD guys had never seen one in an engine bay. We all had a good laugh - not so if it was a rattler.

I like the belt idea, it looks incredible.

Maybe he wants to use it as a hatband?

Sorry Cliff...too easy :)

I was wondering about the number of rattles too...

Yes, age adds rattles. Each time they shed an additional rattle is added but some are lost due to attrition.

What Joe Bob said, and depending how hot/cold it gets during a year, they can shed more than once/year. So 15 rattles is around 14/15 years or so.

WOW Hugh! I get a lot of rattlesnakes on my property too, but I have never seen one with even close to that many rattles. That is a nice snake. It would keep a lot of rats out of my avocado orchard ;)

Not hard to do, once you get over the gag factor of skinning it.