Another belt!

[Evans, Marv]

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.

[BigLou.]

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

[flipper35]

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

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by flipper35

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.

[vash]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

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.

[Hugh R]

Skinned and tanned. 44/45 inches.

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 R]

[LakeCleElum]

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

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by LakeCleElum

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

Just needs Notfarnow's marketing skilz....

FREE RATTLERS!

[Hugh R]

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.

[red-beard]

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

[masraum]

Originally Posted by vash

it sucks.but a four foot belt isnt gonna wrap around me.

i would eat that thing.

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.

[Drbraunsr]

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.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by masraum

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.

Maybe he wants to use it as a hatband?

Sorry Cliff...too easy

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

[Joe Bob]

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

[Hugh R]

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.

[Craig T]

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

[Hugh R]

Originally Posted by Drbraunsr

I like the belt idea, it looks incredible.

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