Quote Originally Posted by frootdog View Post
All diamond backs are highly aggressive rattlesnakes. Others are much more passive. I've been snake hunting in FL and the canebreaks could care less when you walk up on them. They just keep on thier merry way as if you were not even there.
I agree Krys with canbreaks. That's about all we have here (I had my first call on a western last spring here but they had already killed it). I about died when we saw it was a western - we searched that place out for weeks and never found another. But when fresh from the den sights they are all sycho. Even the Pygmy's get fiesty that time of year. Until they get their first shed and meal.

But in south western ok snake hunting we have watched a group walk by a few westerns that never rattled. They were lucky. They could have easily been bitten. The westerns don't always warn you from what I've seen.