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I always joke that I have seen very few rattlesnakes. That is because I'm always preoccupied and I forget to pay attention. The only time I see them is when I walk right up on them and they rattle. So I'm sure their goal is not to bite me but I don't like them anyway.

My husband has had encounters with thousands of them in his outdoor life and has only been hit by a rattler once, it hit at the top of his boot and so caused no harm but he didn't live to strike again, very few of the snakes he encounters live to see another day.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

very few of the snakes he encounters live to see another day.

Are you married to Ditter?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Someone on this forum drew my attention to a Truman Capote short story called "Hand Carved Coffins", apparently based on true case in Texas where an embittered rancher arranged the deaths of several members of the local water board. He killed his first victim by leaving rattlesnakes doped up on adrenaline in the victim's car, they killed the intended target and his wife. A very creepy story.