I see. Are they friendly?
I afford rattlers the respect that they deserve. When I go hiking around here, I wear jeans and thick leather hiking shoes or boots. I would only "mess" with one if I had a .357 or a snake hook. Luckily, the only rattlers that I have encountered were safely behind glass in a zoo, or beheaded in the bed of someone's truck (those suckers will wriggle for quite a while after the head is severed).