@@hightoneshoneybadger7015 killed SEVERAL 5ft timbers, LOTS and LOTS of 5-7ft easterns.............thick as your forearm where it hits the elbow, FAT snakes !! Need to start WEIGHING them after measuring them
Drilling about 4 to 5 miles up in the mountains in Pennsylvania for a few months ..and I tell you what they don't like the Vibration in the ground . Just surrounded by them all day 😂😂. You watch every step very carefully .
They like sunny warm areas with easy cover, such as rocks and logs. I've seen them in other areas as they hunt and mate but I NEVER have encountered a rattlesnake in PA that is aggressive. They want to get away. So you should be fine!
Hey, don't know if you remember me from the sawmill and Ft. Leonard Wood. Worked with Brown the other night, and was talking about coins and metal detecting. He told me you had a RU-vid channel. It's pretty cool!
PA must have massive numbers of rattlers and copper heads with all the videos. I am in the Pacific NW and look at the deer hunting in PA so I am gearing up for a hunt with first buy was the snake proof chaps and boot grads
Depends on where you are honestly. These snakes like higher elevation and warm sunny spots like rocks and log piles. With some muck style boots you'll be fine. Thank you for watching!
@@hightoneshoneybadger7015 I got geared up with the snake chaps and snake proof boot covers so if I am surprised, I will be saved. I tried a few years ago hunting PA north side of I think it was HWY 80 then got a monster buck on a power line by shooting over a large valley using a 300 Weatherby mag.
I grew up in the mtns of western Nc and I stayed in the woods. One day I came up on 2 snakes going at it and it looked like they just started. One was a timber or eastern diamond back I can’t really remember and the other was a king black and let me tell ya that rattler was easily twice the size of the black snake. That rattler must of striked that black 4 or 5 times and it acted like it didn’t even feel anything. After a few mins of fighting the black wrapped around the rattler and must of smothered it cause it stopped moving and I shit you not that black snake ate the rattler. This whole spectacle took about 20 mins. I couldn’t believe the black swallowed or what ever you call it for snakes that whole diamond back. To this day the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
@@hightoneshoneybadger7015 yeah unfortunately cell were still in trial stages and video cameras were huge and my parents couldn’t afford it anyway. It would’ve been a viral video for sure
These a VERY DANGEROUS serpents and they should be eliminated as soon as they are found , so many innocent animals and humans are bitten every year . Who in their right mind would eat a poisonous thing like that.
I live in Central PA and though ive seen a good many Rattlers ive never been lucky enough to see one in the black phase its always been the yellow phase..
@@hightoneshoneybadger7015 is it true that the black phase are found more in higher elevations? Just curious cause if so thats probably why i havent seen any, maybe im not going high enough..
I believe that if you bully someone your children or someone important to you will be on the other end of it. Or if you sell drugs ur kids will be addicts. So lets hope the Jersey Devil himself avenge those poor Reptiles. So you can see what it feels like to have a family member eaten. Eat some rats or something that's what they consume so your eating them anyways.
@@hightoneshoneybadger7015 yeah no problem i didn't know you were killing them when i originally watched. But regardless your welcome it was a joke (well partly) that's why i said jersey devil. Its a free country
There is a rattlesnake hunting season in Pennsylvania from the middle of June through the end of July annually. A venomous snake permit is required, and each permit allows for the taking of one male rattlesnake at least 42 inches long. So when I say a snake is legal, I'm saying the snake is the longer than 42 inches.
Lol i was working in stony valley last year for the game commision on the closed dirt road August, September, counted no less then 35 timbers just on the road. Crazy how many i saw
If they taste like chicken, then just eat a chicken. Snakes are notorious for harboring parasitic worms and amoeba. Cestodes, nematodes etc can be transferred to the consumer. To absolutely kill them ALL off one would have to cook the meat to the point of cooking out any unique taste. Alot of people don't know that Timber Rattlesnakes are PROTECTED and if caught killing one you can face extreme problems. Pennsylvania does have some license that allow you to kill (2 l believe) a year. My friend had alot to do with them being protected. He's spent decades marking rattles and studying geographical distribution, compiling den and field notes which were sent to the United States Dept of the Interior which resulted in the current status. If eating them because they taste like chicken is what your after, usnt it much easier to just buy a chicken...much less pain staking. And just in case you're ever wondered, a typical snake bite today is 50 to $100,000. (This depends on how serious the bite is and can actually cost more)
I live close to whitetail ski resort on blairs valley road. Years ago Maryland and Pennsylvania experienced an earthquake about 1 hour prior to the earthquake my cousin and I counted over 30 Rattlesnakes on a 1 mile stretch of Blairs valley road. Every summer I'll see maybe 3 Rattlesnakes crossing the road but the day of that earthquake we counted over 30 Rattlesnakes on the road. Obviously the earthquake had something to do with it I haven't seen that many Rattlesnakes on the road at one time before or sence that day
Thank you for sharing that experience! I can't imagine what that day was like for you and looking back, at what was next to come. I'm sharing this with my group for future reference.
My grandparents lived on the other side of the mountain back in the corner. I saw rattlesnakes every year on the pipe line that ran over the mountain. My mother said when she was a kid they would get a few in the yard every summer.. I'm sure that made going to the outhouse at night an adventure. People used to burn patches to grow huckleberries and often you would see rattle snakes near the huckleberry patches.
I wish people respected life like we all should. The snakes are obviously freaked out and just trying to get away. Watch "How not to hold a Rattlesnake" It will blow your mind. These are not aggressive snakes as far as chasing you down and killing you. Don't violate their personal space and you'll be fine. Ignore them and you'll likely never see them again, besides, there's probably 500 more around that you will never see.
Bucktail Overlook, Driftwood Cameron County PA. Too bad you didn’t get bit big shot. Now you can show this stupid video and pretend your somebody important.
It's ok to study them and play with them and look at them but in the end I agree they should be free to do their thing. They pose no threat to anyone who isn't an idiot.
You found some pretty cool bottles Mick! Nice local history on some. That place looks like a bottle diggers paradise! I’ve dug in one bottle dump here from mid 1800’s to early 1900’s and found a few cool pieces. Most are broken though. Keep your eye out for marbles and buttons while you’re looking. Looks fun. Good luck on your next hunt!
I actually have found some spoons in that site and lots of old boots. I found some bottles in a local river during the drought this year that got me thinking about all the bottles I probably smashed as a kid that could be worth something today. How's the metal detecting in Ohio been?
High Tones Honey Badger I haven’t been hunting much at all this year. Just been super busy. I went out a few weeks ago and found 4 large cents, some flat buttons, and a few relics but didn’t film anything. Going to try to get out more now that the farmers have harvested their crops. Have several new sites lined up.
Congrats on those large cents! I've had my slowest year as I took on an apprentice but still a good time. And filming mercs and Indians seemed to be all I was doing so I have taken a break from filming too.
