varmints

[slickrockpack]

non game pests

packrats and rattlers top the list today

grab the pistolas boys and a box of shot

 

[slickrockpack]

[NFA-ADK]

Go get them!  Personally I would rather have the snakes than the pack rat but dislike both!

[grampy]

Do you save the snake skins? When I lived in South Carolina years ago, we would make hat bands and belts. Also would sell to vendors at the flea markets for extra cash.

[slickrockpack]

2 hours ago, grampy said:

Do you save the snake skins? When I lived in South Carolina years ago, we would make hat bands and belts. Also would sell to vendors at the flea markets for extra cash.

I'm out of Likes Grampy but I liked that.

No, we don't bother with the skins personally, shoot a few  a day walking to the mailbox, some people keep the rattles stuff like that, I don't

I toss them belly side up and let the eagles get a meal that doesn't involve my chukars or  fawns.

there's a few rattlesnake wranglers that come through Cody each year and they travel the country doing live rattler shows, maybe you've seen them?    the handling of the rattlers makes them docile, they are to begin with anyway, but they eventually will  refuse to coil or strike they tell us , so they need new snakes

 if they tip us off they need snakes I'll keep them in buckets for them, but other than that I shoot them as I see them if they're in our yard.

the packrats are fun little guys, make good pets, kinda stinky, but friendly, I trap them if I can and let them go way down the valley by the No Hunting Signs..... if you let them go within 3 miles they just come back.

they will wreck a vehicle in a week if you let it sit that long. real pain in the seat meat.

 

Edited August 9, 2016 by slickrockpack