Eagle6Man
03-04-2006, 02:57 PM
I read this this morning and it sounds pretty interesting.
I think it's a good idea for research by the way.
http://mas.scripps.com/ABIL/2006/03/03/0304RattleSnakeLEDE_e.jpg
Above, using a pair of mirrors to reflect sunlight into a den, Cesar Ortiz, left, and Heath Cornutt hunt for rattlesnakes on Ortiz’s family’s ranch in Sweetwater. Ortiz said the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round-Up is held before the beginning of Spring because rattlesnakes are less active in the colder months. Once the temperature increases, they become more dangerous.
Maybe I can make a trek out that way sometime and see what it's all about.
http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/fe_people/article/0,1874,ABIL_7933_4513129,00.html (http://)
Ready to Rattle
The hunt is on: It's that time again for Rattlesnake Round-Up
By Victor Cristales / Reporter-News
March 4, 2006
March marks the beginning of spring and the end of the line for thousands of rattlesnakes destined to end up on the chopping block at the annual Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round-Up.
The snakes don't volunteer for this assignment - nor do they get there following the enchanting tune of some pied piper. Almost all of the venomous critters are hunted and gathered by experienced snake catchers.
Cesar Ortiz and Heath Cornutt, two longtime friends from Sweetwater, say that they gained that experience from just growing up in West Texas.
''Being from this area you know they're around,'' Ortiz said during a recent hunt on his family's ranch in Sweetwater.
Ortiz and Cornutt both learned how to hunt and handle snakes from their fathers. Both men belong to the Sweetwater Jaycees, the group that organizes the Rattlesnake Round-Up to raise money for charitable causes.
''We went up there and helped him hunt snakes,'' Cornutt said, describing his early training with his father Dennis Cornutt, a Jaycee for 17 years. ''My older brother milked his first snake when he was 12 years old.''
After years of handling snakes, the men have gotten adept at it - but they are not professional exterminators.
''With the mild winters we have, we get calls throughout the year, people wanting to us to go remove snakes from underneath their houses,'' Ortiz said. ''All of us are employed and work, and we don't have a set schedule or any way that somebody can go and remove a snake from somebody's house.''
I think it's a good idea for research by the way.
http://mas.scripps.com/ABIL/2006/03/03/0304RattleSnakeLEDE_e.jpg
Above, using a pair of mirrors to reflect sunlight into a den, Cesar Ortiz, left, and Heath Cornutt hunt for rattlesnakes on Ortiz’s family’s ranch in Sweetwater. Ortiz said the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round-Up is held before the beginning of Spring because rattlesnakes are less active in the colder months. Once the temperature increases, they become more dangerous.
Maybe I can make a trek out that way sometime and see what it's all about.
http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/fe_people/article/0,1874,ABIL_7933_4513129,00.html (http://)
Ready to Rattle
The hunt is on: It's that time again for Rattlesnake Round-Up
By Victor Cristales / Reporter-News
March 4, 2006
March marks the beginning of spring and the end of the line for thousands of rattlesnakes destined to end up on the chopping block at the annual Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round-Up.
The snakes don't volunteer for this assignment - nor do they get there following the enchanting tune of some pied piper. Almost all of the venomous critters are hunted and gathered by experienced snake catchers.
Cesar Ortiz and Heath Cornutt, two longtime friends from Sweetwater, say that they gained that experience from just growing up in West Texas.
''Being from this area you know they're around,'' Ortiz said during a recent hunt on his family's ranch in Sweetwater.
Ortiz and Cornutt both learned how to hunt and handle snakes from their fathers. Both men belong to the Sweetwater Jaycees, the group that organizes the Rattlesnake Round-Up to raise money for charitable causes.
''We went up there and helped him hunt snakes,'' Cornutt said, describing his early training with his father Dennis Cornutt, a Jaycee for 17 years. ''My older brother milked his first snake when he was 12 years old.''
After years of handling snakes, the men have gotten adept at it - but they are not professional exterminators.
''With the mild winters we have, we get calls throughout the year, people wanting to us to go remove snakes from underneath their houses,'' Ortiz said. ''All of us are employed and work, and we don't have a set schedule or any way that somebody can go and remove a snake from somebody's house.''