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Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX #7525049
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First year they will not kill any snakes

http://www.rattlesnakeroundup.net/calendar-of-events1.html

Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525075
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On Sunday they have a snake eating contest listed at 2:00.
Will all the eaten snakes be ones that were caught before the roundup began so they can market it as a no-kill roundup? Interesting.

Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525100
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So what are they going to do with them?

Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525101
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What I read was the snake round up In Georgia was the one where they weren't killing any snakes.


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Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525106
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Originally Posted by henpecked1
First year they will not kill any snakes

http://www.rattlesnakeroundup.net/calendar-of-events1.html

Stupi, why no kill

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Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525109
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So what’s the point in collecting them? And if they release them, do they take them back to the same dens they found them? Don’t imagine Texas is hurting in the snake population.

Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525121
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They are going to get skinned and butchered. The snakes, or some of them, caught without the use of gripping tongs, may end up in the hands of a venom collecting business.


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Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525134
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Why no gripping tongs? Too great a chance they injure them and will die before venom collection?

Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525135
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What will be next?Catch and release hunting?


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Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525137
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They are buying them.

"2022 Snake Prices
$9.00 per lb. for first 3,000 lbs.
$6.00 per lb. for next 4,000 lbs.
$4.00 per lb for the last 3,000 lbs
10,000 lb limit"

They definitely are not getting set free afterwards.

http://www.rattlesnakeroundup.net/snake-hunters.html

Keith

Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525143
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I believe our past trapper BB was involved in these round ups .


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Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525153
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yes trapperrev.

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Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525187
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From 1954-1959 I participated in the roundups at both Okeene and Waynoka, Oklahoma. I only attended one hunt in Sweetwater, Texas. The most rattlesnakes I ever caught in one day was 64. Four of us usually went together. If hunting neat Waynoka we would have breakfast at Coulter's Café before heading to the hills, don't remember the name of the café in Okeene. Folks that lived in the Salina, Kansas area may remember some of us- Harley Elliott, Dennis Henoch, Duane Johnson, Ron Fry.


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Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525209
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I'd Love to do that!!!


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Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525558
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Originally Posted by henpecked1
First year they will not kill any snakes

http://www.rattlesnakeroundup.net/calendar-of-events1.html



Where did you come up with that bull crap of no snakes killed at Sweetwater ?

I can assure you that snake skinning will start about 9 in the morning and they will start serving fried rattlesnake about noon. They ordinarily cook and sell about 12 or 1400 pounds during the roundup.

All of the snakes will have venom collected and sold for medical purposes.
Those not cooked will be skinned and the meat sold to a company that process and sells canned snake meat.
Hides are usually sold to Justin Boot Co.
Some of the intestines will be sold to universities for research.
Rattles and heads are sold to a company that makes tie bolos and sells the broken rattles in vending machines.


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Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525566
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... more yankee fake news Cedar ... prayers sent to them boys when things get real again I guess lol


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Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: Savell] #7525588
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Should move it to South Florida and catch some pythons, they want them gone and if they pay decent for the meat a whole lot more pounds to be sold.

Bryce

Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525684
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A person has to like an answer like Cedar Hacker’s... “skinning starts at 9”

LOL


Originally Posted by LAtrapper
From 1954-1959 I participated in the roundups at both Okeene and Waynoka, Oklahoma. I only attended one hunt in Sweetwater, Texas. The most rattlesnakes I ever caught in one day was 64. Four of us usually went together. If hunting neat Waynoka we would have breakfast at Coulter's Café before heading to the hills, don't remember the name of the café in Okeene. Folks that lived in the Salina, Kansas area may remember some of us- Harley Elliott, Dennis Henoch, Duane Johnson, Ron Fry.



64 rattlesnakes would be a good day!

Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: henpecked1] #7525744
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Are all rattlers fair game or do y'all go after a certain kind?

Re: Rattle Snake Roundup Sweetwater TX [Re: Cedar Hacker] #7525748
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Originally Posted by Cedar Hacker
Originally Posted by henpecked1
First year they will not kill any snakes

http://www.rattlesnakeroundup.net/calendar-of-events1.html



Where did you come up with that bull crap of no snakes killed at Sweetwater ?

I can assure you that snake skinning will start about 9 in the morning and they will start serving fried rattlesnake about noon. They ordinarily cook and sell about 12 or 1400 pounds during the roundup.

All of the snakes will have venom collected and sold for medical purposes.
Those not cooked will be skinned and the meat sold to a company that process and sells canned snake meat.
Hides are usually sold to Justin Boot Co.
Some of the intestines will be sold to universities for research.
Rattles and heads are sold to a company that makes tie bolos and sells the broken rattles in vending machines.


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