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[azdave35]

the road in the pic is over 12 ft wide...which means the snake is over 6 ft long...that was one big thick green mohave

 

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[azdave35]

saw his little brother on another road.....he was only about 4 ft long

 

[Jim in Idaho]

When did you see them, Dave? and where?
Jim

 

[azdave35]

When did you see them, Dave? and where?
Jim

i'm thinking i took those pics 8-10 years ago....top of the world..between superior and globe

 

[Jim in Idaho]

Aaah...that's good. I'm heading south, on a prospecting trip, pretty soon. Taking the dog along. I'm hoping it's cold enough in southern Nevada I don't have to worry about rattlers. I can avoid them, but Heidi isn't smart enough to do that...LOL
Appreciate the info,
Jim

 

[azdave35]

Aaah...that's good. I'm heading south, on a prospecting trip, pretty soon. Taking the dog along. I'm hoping it's cold enough in southern Nevada I don't have to worry about rattlers. I can avoid them, but Heidi isn't smart enough to do that...LOL
Appreciate the info,
Jim

jim....i've been going out in the hills for many years and i really haven't seen that many rattlers..and most of them have been crossing a road...lol...around here it's the green mohaves you have to watch out for...they are alot more aggressive.....if it warms up enough you could run into a snake in nevada but i doubt it..

 

[Old]

I hate snakes! All snakes.

I don't trust them anytime, ever. I've seen snakes in the snow. No lie. Saw one chased out of its den by a diversion in the creek flow. Its rare, but it happens.

 

[sdcfia]

Those Mojaves are bad news.

If you're out in the hills digging, you're likely to leave your tools there so you don't have to tote them back and forth so many times. Here's what I found one morning as I was retrieving my hidden shovel.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

jim....i've been going out in the hills for many years and i really haven't seen that many rattlers..and most of them have been crossing a road...lol...around here it's the green mohaves you have to watch out for...they are alot more aggressive.....if it warms up enough you could run into a snake in nevada but i doubt it..

From what the bird hunters tell me, as long as the temp is below 60* I probably won't see any. Rattlers don't scare me much...just have to pay attention. but Heidi gets to running around and could run right by one.....that worries me enough I rarely take her into snake country when they're active. She has had the anti-rattler shot, but that just moderates the effect of the venom...it isn't a complete cure. I have no idea how the shot works on the neural toxic portion of the venom in a Mojave. Where I prospect in Wyoming they have the Pigmy Faded Rattlesnakes. These are small, but thick, and have a very nasty neural toxic component to their venom. The PFR's have a very small geographic range in southwestern Wyoming near Green River, going down into Utah, including the upper end of Flaming Gorge Reservoir. They're called "faded" because they lose their markings as they become adults.....the markings get so faded they look like they're a single color...sort of tannish/gray.
Jim

 

[Terry Soloman]

Here is a "Green Meanie" grabbing some sun on the old stage coach road from Stanton, to Yarnell, AZ, in late March. When I got out of the Razor to take his photo he got a wee bit upset and I backed up quick!

 

[Jim in Idaho]

Here's a little video of one of our "western" rattlesnakes. This was in August with a cold front coming in. That snake really wanted to get into the rocks before the cold got here. I dissuaded him a bit, but he knew the direction he wanted to go.
Jim

 

[Real of Tayopa]

Err, SDC, my ole eyes fail to distinguish anything unusual in the photograph, can you point it out for me > grasias

 

[azdave35]

Err, SDC, my ole eyes fail to distinguish anything unusual in the photograph, can you point it out for me > grasias

jose ..download the pic and blow it up and you'll see

 

[Carl995]

the road in the pic is over 12 ft wide...which means the snake is over 6 ft long...that was one big thick green mohave View attachment 1399110 View attachment 1399113

Judging by the shadows Dave, I see a cross & a man in a rocking chair drinking coffee/ hmmm what else is there?

 

[azdave35]

Judging by the shadows Dave, I see a cross & a man in a rocking chair drinking coffee/ hmmm what else is there?

you sure he isn't drinking beer?

 

[captain1965]

Looks a bit like a black tail rattlesnake.

 

[audigger53]

the road in the pic is over 12 ft wide...which means the snake is over 6 ft long...that was one big thick green mohave View attachment 1399110 View attachment 1399113

I don't know Dave. He looks kinda skinny for 6 feet long. The only one I have seen in person alive that was that big was almost 4 inches diameter. Not sure if he was 6 or 8 feet long as I was jumping airborne off the rock landslide area when my back brain kicked in after seeing the shape of the head. Crescent Banded Rattle snake, no Diamond pattern on it, just dark green crescent bands on it. It was passing by me behind the first set of rocks just above me and I didn't see the head shape and thought "Wow, that's a big snake!". Next thing I knew I was airborne, still don't remember jumping, was just in the air. Tried to draw and shoot 3 times while airborne, but I had put away my gun for going over the rocks. Never did either again.

 

[Terry Soloman]

The Green's are "thinner" than Western Diamondbacks. They don't hunt Jack Rabbits like the Blacktails.
Mohave Rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus) - Reptiles of Arizona

Here are two male Diamondbacks fighting over a female one of my prospecting instructors photgraphed out by Rich Hill, in Arizona's Weaver Mountains. They are a lot thicker. The Big snake was about five-feet long.

 

[azdave35]

I don't know Dave. He looks kinda skinny for 6 feet long. The only one I have seen in person alive that was that big was almost 4 inches diameter. Not sure if he was 6 or 8 feet long as I was jumping airborne off the rock landslide area when my back brain kicked in after seeing the shape of the head. Crescent Banded Rattle snake, no Diamond pattern on it, just dark green crescent bands on it. It was passing by me behind the first set of rocks just above me and I didn't see the head shape and thought "Wow, that's a big snake!". Next thing I knew I was airborne, still don't remember jumping, was just in the air. Tried to draw and shoot 3 times while airborne, but I had put away my gun for going over the rocks. Never did either again.

...he was easily 3.5 inch in diameter