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The voices in my head told me go back to my roots and hunt the desert flats where I grew up in 36c. This is the first time in over 15 years my two brothers and I have put in on the same application.

Caught this dude in a yard today at a customers house. Rounded up the dogs quick and got him outta there. 15 beads on the rattle, thought it was a diamondback at first based on size but once I got a good look realized it was a monster Mojave. He also had that killer personality.

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Anybody been catching 22-37.5 inch in Arizona lately? Just asking for a friend.

That’s a great deal. I never leave home without my glassing pad or TBD!

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My experience is that Az black rattlesnakes are least likely to bite off all the ones discussed here. They're typically at the elevations we hunt coues. Black tailed on the other hand have always been very aggressive in my encounters with them. There's a spot on n the Salt that we home into for catfish and we call it our rattlesnake spot. Always see 3 or 4 blacktails on the way in. I was hunting near one year in 24A glassing a big canyon that runs into Salt River canyon. Sat down in the dark. About 830 we got up to move and my buddy put his hand down to stand up. Put it right on top of a black coiled up. He jumped up and pulled his pistol. I told him not to shoot it as it was not aggressive to us and an god trait to pass on!

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What kind of blacktail info are you wanting? And you're talking blacktail rattlesnake (C. molossus) and not AZ Blacks, right? I've never had issues with blacktails being mean or aggressive in AZ. In fact, most of the specimens I've encountered barely rattled to let us know they were there and they were very docile when handled. I actually used to grab them by the tail and pick them up. I have a picture of that somewhere, too, from down in the Chiricahaus. The blacktails in west Texas were a whole other ballgame, though. They were aggressive AF and would strike like crazy. We had a a set of young Mohaves from west Texas with the neurotoxin. They were born in captivity to a 4-foot female that was captured near Hueco Tanks. It was fun to watch feeding time. It gave you a good perspective as to how lethal the Mojave toxin is. They would strike the mice we fed them, the mice would jump straight up, and hit the bottom of the tank dead with minimal twitching, if any. One of those beauties escaped on me during feeding time once. It hit the ground at my feet and went under some tanks/tubs on the floor. I had to go and lock myself in a 7x15 room with it and start moving tanks, tubs, and cans around to get it back in its cage. That was kind of unnerving.

My wife and I were in Normandy on D-Day in 2002. The museum at Omaha Beach is tear jerking. Huge cemeteries in France and Belgium. Too many lives lost for our freedom

Ya..... Sort of sad. My old man was in a B-17 over France on D-day. Always break out his scrap book and look at his old pics, documents, etc. this time of year. They were all heroes. Sort of related, but not exactly; I was in London early last month, and it happened to be during the "VE Day" holiday. Though it is not an official national holiday, there was a BIG parade up The Mall Road (road leading directly to the palace). I saw a few American flags here and there as a remembrance and thank you for our country's huge part in England and all of Europe's eventual victory over the Nazi's. Was nice to see the American reference's here and there as they celebrated one of the biggest unofficial holidays of the year over there.

Yeah, I hardly saw anything about it being d day. But I did see a lot on the morning news about it being national donut day. Little upsetting and embarrassing tbh.

Ok, that’s a cool trick.

PM me your email and, when I get back to work next week, I can send you some of the science papers I read that got me interested and motivated if you're interested. I can send you my research publication, too, if you need a cure for insomnia. The original work by Glenn and Straight (1983 and a couple of others of theirs) documented the hemorrhagic toxin to roughly parallel the east side of I-10 between Tucson and Phx (big generalization there) with outliers/specimens all around both towns. The areas having both neurotoxin (called Mojave toxin) and hemorrhagic toxin ran right along that I-10. The hemorrhagic toxin is very specific to a smaller area within Arizona and the area with properties of both is even smaller in AZ. Throughout the rest of their range in AZ, NM, NV, CA, far southwest UT and west Texas (east of El Paso), they have a very strong neurotoxin. Lethality results from LD50 tests puts venom from diamondbacks (all hemorrhagic toxin) at roughly 3-5 micrograms of venom/kilograms of body weight. Mojave toxin LD50 tests were at a range of 0.15-0.25 micrograms of venom/kilograms of body weight. True/funny story. I was processing vials of pure crystallized Mojave toxin in my lab one day, after getting all of the un-pure liquids off and I wasn't at the vent hood in my lab. It took me a few minutes to realize I'd been inhaling the pure, crystallized Mojave toxin. I lost feeling in my nose for three hours and had recurring outbreaks during times of hight stress due to the buildup of antibodies specific to the venom. I'd lose feeling in my nose for up to an hour. That went off/on for about 10 years.

Picture from last August during Archery season. One of the thickest rattlers I have seen. Body makes his head look small.

That's a beautiful Mohave. They were my graduate research project. I studied the genetics and evolution of their venom. Most Mohave rattlesnakes have a very strong/lethal neurotoxin throughout their range in the U.S. and Mexico. Up to 40x more lethal than a Diamondbacks, depending on how you interpret the data. It was the ones in AZ that lack the neurotoxin and the ones that have properties of both neurotoxin and hemorrhagic toxins that got me interested. I miss working with those guys! I collected blood and venom from my fair of them share back in the day. Great pics!

OK, I had to look it up: three rattlesnakes no harvest -- E. There is no open season on Phrynosoma mcallii (flat-tailed horned lizard), Heloderma suspectum (Gila monster), Crotalus lepidus (rock rattlesnake), Crotalus pricei (twin-spotted rattlesnake), Crotalus willardi (ridge-nosed rattlesnake), Lampropeltis triangulum (milksnake; Cochise County only), Sistrurus catenatus (massasauga), Thamnophis eques (Mexican gartersnake), Thamnophis rufipunctatus (narrow-headed gartersnake), Gopherus agassizii (Mojave desert tortoise), Gopherus morafkai (Sonoran desert tortoise) and Terrapene ornata (ornate box turtle); see Notes 4 and 5. Concerning harvest on the rest, four per year dead or alive, I guess, like most reptiles. I suspect you should not volunteer how many you have killed on a public website. 😮

I have an aging uncle residing in 34a. The unit was my first choice so I can get him out and behind some glass. Next choice was in the Hualapai's. I don't know them but have been interested in land nearby and there's gold in them hills.

Perfect we hunt down there sometimes. Hopefully she gets drawn .

He's got a huge tail, must be eating well. I haven't seen a rattler around here in a couple years. A week ago I had a 6' gopher snake in my shop. It's the largest snake I'd encountered in decades.

Good Lord!

Get rid of its head

What you talkin' bout Willis? Eddie

I’ll stay on the rock and glass. (Currently watching a few prospect rams) I Would like to see pioneer license holders get the opportunity to knock some sheep in the dirt. (Heck I wish they could do it as a population management hunt) It’s a golden opportunity for some deserving folks. Wish they had more tags for the older generations to live out there dreams.

Once upon a time I did ok.