[CH3CN]

LOL. Yes sir! Stick incidents, indeed.

Just be careful eating rattlers. Make sure they are a clean kill. If they bit themselves in the throes of death, you can't eat them. Best to separate their heads quickly and cleanly.

[Inyo-Mono]

Just be careful eating rattlers. Make sure they are a clean kill. If they bit themselves in the throes of death, you can't eat them. Best to separate their heads quickly and cleanly.

You’re right about that! I use a machete to cleanly and safely remove the head. If anyone cares, here is an easy way to tan a rattlesnake skin:

Slit up the belly from rattles to neck then peel the skin off and pour rock salt all over the fleshy underside.

Stretch the skin out and tack it fleshy side out on a board for a couple of days until it is dry. Then untack the skin from the board and rub the salted fleshy side across the top of a wooden sawhorse or other secure board, back and forth for about 20 minutes or so until the fibers in the skin break down and begin to look like suede. You are done, that is all there is to it!

[A knight without armor]

Back in northern Illinois my mother worked at a camp for juvenile delinquent teenage boys which was located in a big forest. There were many big rattle snakes and worse should there be a dry spell during the summer they would come out of the rocks seeking water. At least that is what we were told. One time the staff discovered some malicious little jerks had killed a major rattle snake and were keeping the head to stick somebody with. I don’t know if that would have worked or not.

Hah! Are you old enough to remember juvenile delinquents? The crimes that shocked society were like stealing hubcaps, writing bad checks, driving up and down their girlfriend’s street sounding a siren, and in our town boys gathering to smoke and play their car radios loud in the hospital zone was a biggie.