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[chuckshooter]

@chuckshooter Thanks for that, looks great.
12 foot or so in length? Are you drilling a hole in pvc where the hose clamp is to feed the end of cable to outside then the clamp secures it?

About 3 1/2 ft. Long. No hole. , my cable is to big and stiff. I think the best design would be, a smaller diameter cable, maybe even 100 lbs. fishing line. athatched to the inside rod so when extended, you get a 4 in. Loop. Mine is definitely rinky, dinky, but it works. I'm sure, Someone on this site could come up with a better design.

I'll add this, old curtain rod works pretty good. Because there's one that slides inside the other already made up.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

About 3 1/2 ft. Long. No hole. , my cable is to big and stiff. I think the best design would be, a smaller diameter cable, maybe even 100 lbs. fishing line. athatched to the inside rod so when extended, you get a 4 in. Loop. Mine is definitely rinky, dinky, but it works. I'm sure, Someone on this site could come up with a better design.

I'll add this old curtain rod works pretty good. Because there's one that slides inside the other already made up.

I would have to recruit a volunteer if I was to use a 3 1/2 long one on these coon tail diamondbacks. lol!

 

[nakneker]

We had a rattler on the front porch last year, curled up in a corner by the water spicket. He won a one way ticket to Snake paradise. We have more bull snakes by far, maybe a 15 to 1 ratio and they are welcome. If I find a bull snake when I’m walking I usually take them back to be released around the property, mostly in the wood pile, rock piles, anywhere that I know mice or rats are. We live in Sage country and we have a lot of mice and kangaroo rats, the battle is real and constant and those bull snakes help. Rattlers not so much.

 

[js2013]

One of the few advantages of living in a cold climate, no rattlers.

 

[Jesswil61]

The latest news that some of my local snake charmers have provided is that the rattlesnakes are not rattling nowadays. They are attributing it to the feral hogs and other predators that respond to the rattle and thus kill the snakes. This is not good news for those of us who depend on that rattle for that moment of shock impulse while out and about in the woods!

 

[Downhill]

Got a buddy that says, " IF it doesn't rattle it is assumed to be a King Cobra!" Totally afraid of any snake.

 

[swd]

My wife found this little guy by the house a week ago and then a nice gofer snake about 15’ from there a couple days ago. And then there was a nice little striped racer last week too. They ARE out. Gofer on the left, buzzy on the rt.

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

Biggest bull I’ve ever seen last weekend; was over 6ft even bent out of shape
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Beautiful. That fucker is a rodent eating, killing machine.

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

The latest news that some of my local snake charmers have provided is that the rattlesnakes are not rattling nowadays. They are attributing it to the feral hogs and other predators that respond to the rattle and thus kill the snakes. This is not good news for those of us who depend on that rattle for that moment of shock impulse while out and about in the woods!

Interesting. I have heard that before. I wonder how many years of being hog dinner before they almost stop rattling. It may have happened already.

 

[freebird22/250]

Biggest bull I’ve ever seen last weekend; was over 6ft even bent out of shape
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Dadt boy has eaten a bunch of mice!

 

[D Coots]

At the Porcupine shoot in South Dakota a couple years ago. Biggest bullsnake I've seen...well over 6'...they were screwing....Deckert said leave them alone...no problem...good snake. He also said keep your eyes open for rattlers...then there's the story about the dude at the Cactus several years ago. A rattler by someone's bench...guy says...stand back....I'll handle this...got bit in thumb....back next day bandaged up...second time in 2 years...60k for doc bills I was told???
I saw a pair of black snakes going to it at a quarry in Illinois several years ago...well over 7' I think.

 

[Mike Montgomery]

Two Bull Snakes in Oregon. I'll let you guess what they are up to.