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Tomorrow April 1st Is The Beginning Of Rattlesnake Hunting Season In Oklahoma, It Lasts For 3 Months….

A local news channel sent two young women reporters out to rattlesnake country with a cameraman and a game ranger to catch diamondback rattlesnakes for the first time. They had them dressed in snake boots and thigh-high snake chaps. The game ranger told them the important thing was not to fall down because there were rattlesnakes everywhere. Yikes. And he showed them how to search in the pile of boulders and rocks for rattlesnakes and how to grab them with their snake grabbers and put them in buckets. They caught several huge ones. When the video was finished they went back to the news desk with 3 other reporters and a meteorologist. The younger male reporter was bent over the desk like he was going to be sick. I think just watching that video of those women he worked with doing that was making him nauseous and faint.
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Musicman · 61-69, M
I definitely wouldn't have wanted to go.
cherokeepatti · 70-79, F
@Musicman One of those two reporters even said that, she didn’t want to be there. I don’t even know what that tv station manager was thinking. If they thought it was a good idea they should have gotten their butts down there with those women and tried their hand at it. I would probably faint and fall down and get bit. I have seen enough venomous snakes in different areas where I live that I don’t want to go hunting for them. I do respect those who do, there would probably be no cattle ranching if someone didn’t try to catch them. They’ll bite cattle, sheep, goats, etc. and kill them when they get overpopulated and expand their territories. They can also find their way up into toilets in rural areas and gather in crawl spaces under homes and in cellars and under sheds etc.
Musicman · 61-69, M
@cherokeepatti If I went people would have either loved or hated the episode. I would have been running around with a shotgun killing them all.