How to kill a rattlesnake with your bare hands

Cal Sportsman ^ | 10/10/2016 | C Bailey

[tired&retired]

Just use the bare finger on your bare hand to pull the trigger.

[GraceG]

[Robert DeLong]

Although this works very well, we encourage you to just walk the other way

I certainly need no encouragement to follow that advice. I'm outta there!!!

[KevinB]

I fail to see why that snake needed to be killed.

[Scythian_Reborn]

If you’re out in the wild and stumble upon one there is no need to kill it. Didn’t watch his video but not into killing things because “you can”.

[Williams]

I thought this was a recap of the debate.

[combat_boots]

lol

[so_real]

I wish he'd mentioned how many strikes the snake made against his boot before trying to get away when he stepped on the tail. Some idiot is going to try this in tennis shoes ...

[Mr. K]

For a nice belt? or pair of boots?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’ve seen my dad and his brothers do this.

[gettinolder]

Interesting.

Surprised the thread hasn’t been taken over by the FR contingent of PETA yet though.

[USMCPOP]

Sometimes if the head is severed, the snake can still bite and the venom will still cause damage.

Years ago, I chopped the head completely off a small copperhead with a sickle when I was weeding. Nudged the head up against the body and the head bit the body! Then the headless body tried to strike the head! True story.

[longfellow]

Holy crap I expected to see debate photos but HOLY CRAP that’s a real snake.

[NonValueAdded]

I chopped the head off of a coral snake. I threw the body on a fiteant mound and by morning all that was left was the backbone. I think I invented coral ants.

[pa_dweller]

Hold my beer and watch this!

[Quickgun]

12 gauge.

[al_c]

Step 1: Grab the snake by the tail.

Um ... no, thanks.

[Notthemomma]

He didn’t say, and the video didn’t show, what he was stepping on. It makes sense that it was the head, not the tail, that he was stepping on and pinning down, or he’d be at real risk for being struck when he reached down. It’s likely the snake struck the flat thick bottom of his boot more than once, and he kept bringing his foot down until he had the head pinned. Even then, he was careful as he reached down for the tail, in case the snake came out from under his boot.

[The Sons of Liberty]

How to kill a rattlesnake with your bare hands

Disappointment. I was expecting a larger snake with cankles.