[Evans, Marv]

The last one I saw here was 2+ ft. long and hanging out under my tractor in the shade. It instantly coiled & started buzzing when I approached. I tried to get it up onto a long, wood broom handle. After a few tries, it seemed to think coiling & rattling was futile & just wanted to get out of there. I finally got it onto the broom handle and put it in the plants on the slope above my driveway. I never kill them. The biggest one I ever saw was dead & hanging over a barbed wire fense next to a dirt road used a lot by illegal immgrants It was over six ft. long and as big or bigger than my forearm. There were always rattlers hanging on that fence. Maybe killed by the Mexicans crossing over from the border.