@USApat you ever eat any of those rattlers? Heard they taste like chicken
Nope. Not for me really. I simply do not like snakes at all in any type, form or fashion! Particularly rattlers. I've had enough of them for a lifetime.
I maybe could have made some decent money skinning them, but I tossed them over the fence and they were gone in a day and probably eaten by the owls.
There were a ton of them on the property due to it being a grocery store and food chain for the critters. The property had fifteen large pecan trees about 60 feet tall and a huge corn field on three sides with the adjacent properties. So, the food chain started with mice, rats and rabbits, thus leading to snakes, farm owls and coyotes. The farm owls were absolutely huge. They would rest on a oak tree branch about a foot in diameter and leap off them when I walked near the tree. It was like a child jumping from the limb. A few sweeps of their wings and they soon were airborne as high as the telephone poles. Beautiful to watch. But, creepy to walk around at night on the property as you always hoped they didn't mistake you for food!
Before I moved there, the former owner said he tore down an old house they called the "snake house". He wasn't kidding. I think that's where the dens started decades ago and the rattlers never left the place. It was insane how many rattlers I saw and killed on that property. I could have killed snakes every day if I wanted to. You simply couldn't walk out of the house without a flashlight at night.
I lived there for 3-4 years and glad I moved. But, I loved the place due to the privacy, room for all my projects, the work building, multiple garages, endless pecans, and it was 5 minutes from a major grocery store with no traffic getting there. I really didn't have to leave much because I had everything I needed except for food and gas.
As a final note of caution to folks. I have dealt with enough rattlers to know that the majority of time THEY WILL NOT RATTLE when you first approach them. Only if you startle them, or almost step on them, or back them into a corner will they announce their presence by rattling their tails. At night, they will rattle off in the distance and if you drive up in a car. But for the most part, if they are hunting for food, or laying in wait, they are quiet as church mice until you are upon them. Don't believe the bullshit you hear about them rattling before they strike at you. They might do this, but most of the time they won't.
Late Tuesday night I got a call from @huntnest to see if I wanted to stalk a giant Tom (male mountain lion) who has been wreaking havoc in a rural neighborhood. He had already killed two of her dogs and was living under her porch, nervous what he might do next. We found a fresh 4x4 mule deer he had just killed. We hiked straight up 2500ft and down the other side, then back up again, back down the other side and then back up again to 9600ft. Exhausted,dehydrated,cramping I drew back my @hoytbowhunting and sent an @sevrbroadheads through him. Then I had to crawl backwards down the mountain with him to get him to the truck I fell 10ft off a rock face on 
