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MCX Rattler Chambering: .300 Blackout Frame: anodized 7075 T6 aluminum Sights: none, Picatinny rail Trigger: SIG Enhanced, 5.5- to 9-lb. pull Overall Length: 19.3” Overall Height: 8” Overall Width: 2.8” Barrel: 5.5” carbon steel with Nitride finish; 1:5”-twist rifling Weight w/ Magazine: 5 lbs., 2 ozs.

A San Jose man is in serious condition following a rattlesnake bite Monday afternoon east of Fremont on Mission Peak, a California Highway Patrol flight officer and paramedic said. The snake bit the man at about 1 p.m. on the top of Mission Peak during a hike with his wife. A CHP helicopter crew heard a call to emergency personnel, responded and landed on the peak. The victim was given anti-venom after being transported to Washington Hospital, CHP Flight Officer and Paramedic Shaun Bouyea said. Bouyea was the one who administered the anti-venom. The victim, 47, sat on a rock...

BISBEE — A few months back, he was just a cast-off dog, unwanted, unloved and headed for the “sleep-forever table” at a California animal shelter. Today, Phillip is a hero in the eyes of his owner Linda Reynolds after protecting her and his companion, Jake, a Labradachshund, from a very large female Western Diamondback rattlesnake that had somehow found her way onto Reynold’s enclosed sun porch at her 33-acre ranch in Elfrida on Sept. 29. “I was going to let them go out in the back yard and opened the door to the sun porch. That’s when I heard it....

(KSL News) -- A man walks into a crowded bar in Idaho Falls, and chucks a rattlesnake into a crowd of people. That's what 28-year old Rodger Hunter Jr. is accused of doing on Monday. Hunter has since been charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon. Police say he walked into the bar, pulled a three-and-a-half foot long rattler from his large pocket and threw it into a crowd and ran away. Bar patrons used a crutch to sweep away the angry snake, then threw a t-shirt over it before picking it up. No one was hurt. Hunter could...

My brother works construction projects all over the world, and just sent me a couple of pictures of critters encountered on the job. And I thought my job sucked.

Man: Wal-Mart should pay medical bills after snake bite 01:12 PM CDT on Wednesday, October 1, 2003Associated Press BROWNWOOD, Texas – A man who claims he was bitten by a rattlesnake in a Wal-Mart says he wants the store to pay his medical bills but does not plan to seek more money. Douglas Hatchett, 31, a self-employed carpenter and painter who lives in Bangs, went to Wal-Mart in nearby Brownwood on Monday. He said he reached for a pair of shoes in a box on a shelf when the Western diamondback rattler, estimated at 14-16 inches long, bit him in...