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hobbit709

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5. Sitting out in the desert one late afternoon, had two rattlesnakes come up where I was sitting

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 06:55 PM

Mar 2016

stop about 5 feet away, watch me for about five minutes without coiling up and then turn and go on their way.
They were pretty good sized Mohave rattlers.

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