>be me live Inna desert, pima county AZ to be exact
>live very rural village, no stoplights, no street signs, just big housing lots and bigger housing lots, open desert all around, no stores but two gas stations and a tire shop.
>last month went out around 9pm get my metal folding bed frame to lay out and watch the stars, smoke a ciggie, catch a cool breeze
>walking in dark barefoot to get something near a shed.
>hear that rattle, more of a loud buzzing almost
> freeze, didn't have flashlight, so used my phone light, took a few moments to zero in and see it.
>I'm sorry snake, you're in me yard and neighbors have little kids that play outside alot
> I'm going to kill ya but please don't take it personally, there is just to many opportunities for people including myself to get bit here
>go to find a flat shovel 100 feet away in the dark come back, snake still there, sorry, give him the chop one handed while holding the phone light in other hand
It was a tree footer. A few years ago I kill two in month.
My neighbor on opposite side has a high mound for her big brick house and found a hole next to her backyard with one rattlr called fire department.
They came and move big stack of junk around hole. Pulled out o rattlrs including a six footer. I told her high mound is now the rattlr birthing gound and winter hibernation spot
