Got another one today while mowing. Some kind of black snake. Very similar to a rat snake, but the back was almost pure black and the white belly had more markings on it. Wasn't a cottonmouth, but at a glance it sure looked like one.
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Got another one today while mowing. Some kind of black snake. Very similar to a rat snake, but the back was almost pure black and the white belly had more markings on it. Wasn't a cottonmouth, but at a glance it sure looked like one.
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Aaron
As I mowed last night I saw 2 huge bull snakes out back. Big enough to leave a wake as they went through the tall grass... saw them as they hit the clear spot inside my wild patch I can't mow.
Mower got a copperhead Saturday so they are out here..
Rattler is kinda stringy as I recall and not much meat on the prairie rattlers in NE Colorado. I'll tell you once was enough for me unless it was all I could get. I think I'd go for a bowl of sage brush first.
The last rattler I ate was bony, tough and stringy... I probably needed to find someone who really knows how to prepare one....
Tom
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haven't been introduced to the meat myself yet (while it,s definitely on my list when i'll visit my buddy in el paso) , but seems like sliced thin and rolled in seasonned breading then fried gives a tender treat. also,seems like a cold one is the side order by excellence. i guess the snack itself is a part of a folkloric things of the mid west?Originally Posted by Tom W.
Quite good but easy to overcook. A bigger snake makes better eating because smaller portions will be overcooked before the crust browns.
I don't much care for rat snakes but have a little one (less than 3') under the back porch. I had a big cranky one in my warehouse at work over ten years ago. Didn't have much trouble with salesmen or rodents for a week or so.
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You're making me hungry enough to go out back and start overturning stuff just so I can try that...
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LOL!!!!!...you guys are quite willing to....... . i can't picture myself living with rattlers around.i think i would wear cow boy boots year round in fear of getting bitten . rattle snakes bites gives you a nice fever , strong flue alike symptoms i heard ; i'd prefer to kill them and eat them if it happens,but i for sure wouldn't run after them in the field. while they are good critter hunters,so it keeps the household free of those, but i bet that seeing some specimens electing your yard as house isn't really fun especially if you have young kids ....but i know we humans ,we're quite adaptable and flexible as the environnement we live in . we cope with what we have to.
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