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 Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/24/20 09:48 PM
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Today sitting on my cabin deck in Dickens county My Spinone Riley 2. 5 years old started barking and backing away from something in the middle of the yard. As I suspected it was a 2 ft. diamond back. I quickly dispatched it. I usually kill 2 or 3 rattlers a year but this is the first in the last 2 years. I have had Riley snake conditioned and was uncertain how he would respond to an encounter. His response is exactly what I hoped for and that 75.00 was a great investment/ The alternative was a panic drive to Lubbock 80 miles away and some big bucks for anti venom shots. ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2020/06/full-32228-237510-rattler_2020_june.jpg)
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/24/20 11:11 PM
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Glad to hear that your pup kept his distance! Not that it matters much ('cause a snakebit dog is a snakebit dog...regardless of species) but I think you'll find that that's a massasauga rattlesnake, not a diamondback. Hey, I just learned about 'em a couple of years ago... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MassasaugaAnyways, he's a "good" snake now! Mark
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/1UPfnkOt.jpg) "I always take care to fire into the nearest hillside and, lacking that, into darkness". - the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/24/20 11:18 PM
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/usergals/2017/07/full-3669-105539-full_16668_105507_image.jpg)
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/25/20 01:08 PM
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Haven't had it in years but never spit any out. I am a sucker for happy endings and strapped cowboys.
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/25/20 01:19 PM
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/25/20 01:23 PM
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Keeping my fingers crossed as hearing lots of calling and we've had good rain so we may be in for a good season
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/25/20 01:24 PM
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/25/20 11:42 PM
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Actually 218 Bee is correct as it is not a Diamond back, my mistake, but a Prairie Rattler which although not dominant is more common in my area.
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/26/20 12:18 AM
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You know, Flash, it's really splitting hairs when it comes to "danger noodles". If they buzz, they get shot! 
"I always take care to fire into the nearest hillside and, lacking that, into darkness". - the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/26/20 01:52 AM
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They also have a little nastier disposition.
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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#7881926
06/26/20 03:13 PM
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Your dog did a good job because he didnt get bit. However, I would continue to desnake him as he still showed interest in the snake.
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/27/20 02:08 PM
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My young female went to the avoidance clinic last summer, and will be going back this summer.
My males have always been one, and done. But my females always need more convincing, that snakes are a bad deal.
We do yearly vaccinations also.
Good job on your dog keeping his distance.
My male would tuck his tail and run if he saw, or caught scent of a snake.
He gave them a wide berth, then would go back to hunting.
Shopping with your husband is like hunting with the game warden.
Experience is what you get, when you didn't get what you wanted.
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/27/20 02:08 PM
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Your dog did a good job because he didnt get bit. However, I would continue to desnake him as he still showed interest in the snake. 2X
Shopping with your husband is like hunting with the game warden.
Experience is what you get, when you didn't get what you wanted.
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/27/20 04:40 PM
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NORML as can be
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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06/27/20 06:51 PM
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![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/KjZZqFj8/point-with-bird.jpg) "Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war." - General Patton
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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#7883155
06/27/20 07:47 PM
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that's great, I worry all the time about my J Russell, she kills every snake she finds
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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#7884395
06/29/20 03:15 AM
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I took my male Brit to his third clinic last year and it was a fight to get him near the snakes..
He will not need a refesher.
We all need to practice Whoa more.
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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#7884660
06/29/20 01:39 PM
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Glad your dog kept it's distance.
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Re: Best 75.00 I ever spent
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08/11/20 03:53 PM
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