A beautiful snake

I’ve heard that TPW has gone as far as hunting down and prosecuting people that have posted timber rattlesnakes that they have killed on social media.
This is 100% true! - If someone sends TPW a pic of you holding a dead timber rattler; you can expect a visit from the game wardens.

I believe that agriculture accidents(plow, hay cutter, lawn mower, ect) are a no fault situation; but I'd still be careful about what you post online.
 
I'll pass on snakes, I'll leave them alone, they can leave me alone......same with poisonous spiders. I find nothing beautiful about either one of them
 
Sometimes it does not pay to do more research, below is an extract about Eastern Browns.

"Eastern brown snakes are endemic to eastern Australia and are responsible for more human fatalities than any other snake species in the country. Their venom is highly potent, containing powerful toxins that can cause paralysis and internal bleeding. The initial bite is often painless, according to the Australian Museum.

"They're the only snakes in the world that regularly kill people in under 15 minutes," Bryan Fry, who studies venom at the University of Queensland, told ABC News in 2024. "Even more insidiously than that is that for the first 13 minutes, you're going to feel fine.""
 
According to TP&W, they are not on the threatened list any longer. They are still protected from commercial catching/sales.
Yes sir. They have been fair game for 3-4 years now. As applied, they have been for most all along. :)
 
Yes sir. They have been fair game for 3-4 years now. As applied, they have been for most all along. :)
What poor sap had to go out and do the population survey? That’s just what I want to do is go out turn over rocks and logs and count poisonous snakes!
 
If around the house, rattlesnakes are SSS. Out away from people I don’t bother them. No timber rattlers where I’ve lived- Colorado and New Mexico. Largest rattlers I’ve encountered have been Western Diamondbacks that are found over wide area of the SW US but the largest specimens seem to live in piñon-juniper uplands of NW New Mexico. Some have been scary big. Saw one Eastern Diamondback on Florida Gulf Coast that was equally large.

A rattlesnake that seems similar to and as strikingly marked as the Timber Rattlesnake is the Blacktail Rattlesnake. Have run into quite a few of them poking around the mountains of SW New Mexico. Their territory includes all the mountains and uplands of SW quadrant of NM. I think most who see them in the wild mistakenly ID them as Timber Rattlesnakes as many times they are found up in wooded mountain areas.

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You have to be careful around blacktails. If you screw with them at all they will come after you. Green mojave are also aggressive. Ive caught several mojave that rattled at my truck poking along gravel roads from 20-30’ away.
 
You have to be careful around blacktails. If you screw with them at all they will come after you. Green mojave are also aggressive. Ive caught several mojave that rattled at my truck poking along gravel roads from 20-30’ away.
Agreed. I remember many of the blacktails didn’t simply coil and rattle. They would come toward you when disturbed. :) I have heard the mojave is also aggressive but have never been around one. I really don’t fear poisonous snakes but have a lot of respect/caution for the really big diamondbacks, water moccasins and the mambas.
 
Every time I open up a snake thread in here I can just feel my blood pressure go up. Snakes just give me the heeby jeeby’s. Yet, I cannot resist reading these posts. LOL
 
I’m not a fan of snakes.
Bull snakes I’ll leave alone but anything venomous gets a lethal response. I’d be OK with every venomous snake being permanently eradicated.
 
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I’m not a fan of snakes.
Bull snakes I’ll leave alone but anything venomous gets a lethal response. I’d be OK with every venomous snake being permanently eradicated.
That's the way I feel about sharks!
 
I don’t go in the water.
You would have a tough time in my neck of the woods, almost every time I go wade fishing I will come across sharks and anytime we walk out of the house we may come across a cottonmouth. Killed a 2 foot cottonmouth by the back door Friday.
 
You would have a tough time in my neck of the woods, almost every time I go wade fishing I will come across sharks and anytime we walk out of the house we may come across a cottonmouth. Killed a 2 foot cottonmouth by the back door Friday.
I have to deal with buzzworms here but no water that doesn’t come out of a well.
 
Australia has the most venomous snake in the world the Inland Tiapan or Fierce Snake,with enough venom to kill 100 adults humans with one bite.
 
Seen a few of those timber rattlers or cane break rattlers as they are known. Bad boys with nuro and hemo toxin. The ones I have come up on are not very aggressive but large snakes. Western diamondbacks down south Texas seem a lot more aggressive in my opinion. Fire is a good option for both.
Yes I do wear snake boots these days, feel I have risked it long enough.
 

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