Re: Rattlesnake..almost stepped on it!!!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Cinch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hannibal, I 100% see where you're coming from. However, respectfully, this is where I'm coming from. I work in an environment where rattlesnakes are hiding around every corner. It is dangerous enough without worrying about snakes. I work in the gas fields of the Powder River Basin. Every minute I'm surrounded by noisy gas compressors, generators, diesel engines, air compressors, gas recovery equipment, high pressure lines, water lines, and even pivot sprinklers. This equipment is always warm and gives off vibration that attract snakes. Most of the time you can't hear or see them, and when you do they are always way too close. They are hiding on skids, under skids, in the walls of buildings, on and under pipe. I have had quite a few close calls where luck was the only thing that kept me from being bit. That is why I kill them. For the safety of myself and my coworkers. I leave the bullsnakes to work over the mice. </div></div>
I dont have a problem with killing snakes under this kind of circumstance or under some other circumstances, but when you hear people say "the only good snakes are dead snakes" or "I kill every snake I see" they are cleary telegraphing the fact that they aren't woodsmen. Shooters perhaps, and maybe hunters, but not woodsmen.