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WOW! I've never seen rattlesnake combat...You are SO lucky to have witnessed that! I've seen thousands of snakes, but never combat...

As to the identity of your snakes, they are Crotalus stephensi (Panamint rattlesnakes).

Thank you for sharing!

-Kris

I have read numerous posts here from numerous posters and quite a few of them are similar in that they state that if they were the one(s) to find the LDM, they would "fade away" with the gold contained therein... So my (hypothetical) questions are as follows: 1) Provided that the above bec...

Excellent beginning to this thread Mike! I can't echo your points about having enough H2O enough! People just don't realize how much water they lose here in the desert in the summer...As a field herper, I spend ALOT of time in the middle of nowhere looking for critters to see and photograph...If one...

Well, if we're asking specifically about desert goals, the biggest goal I have is to get out as much as possible and do as much herpin' as time (and money) allows... Along those lines, I really want to focus on hitting the various mountains ranges in western/central Az where Crotalus mitchelli pyrrh...

Interesting Mike! Thanks for sharing! I'll follow up on those books too. "He had a trunk full of the most amazing ore my friend had ever seen. He says it looked like someone had taken quartz and shot it with a shotgun loaded with gold buckshot." Must have been quite impressive! Did he ever...

Mike... Thanks for your response. I appreciate intellectual debate and insightful dialogue (even if consensus is not reached). :) To your points: "As God is something that cannot be proven scientifically, you have to believe he exists." Says who? I'm not saying I don't necessarily believe ...

Nice photo of that gold specimen Tom K....

But in my opinion, the rattle looked better ON the living snake!

-Kris

I enjoyed the write up, but this part had me a tad confused: In reality, there are a number of snakes that are capable of inflicting harm that live in the desert. They come in various shapes and sizes but all are capable of doing damage if not to an adult then at least to children. With the exceptio...

Thanks Terry!

-Kris

Thanks Dirty Dutchman! At least now I know I'm not going crazy! LOL :D I posted this in the "general" forum because it wasn't specifically related to the LDM itself, but rather to the people that hunt for it. I figured that would be the best place for it. Anyway, if it comes back then I lo...