I ate some rattlesnake at the “Rattlesnake Roundup” in Sweetwater Texas back in my West Texas days. Kind of chewy and not much flavor if you’ve ever tried Alligator it was that same feel.
College kids used to help fund school by collecting up Rattlesnakes for the roundup, where they were paid by the pound. In their pits, they are somewhat docile and you just reach in with the snake tool and pull them out. My neighbor used to get snakes as well. He was a total redneck, I sat there and watched him milk the venom one day and show me how he puts the venom in his 357 hollow tip bullets. Then he’d put a layer of wax over the venom to supposedly keep it from spattering when the bullet was launched. He was nuts I took my one year old over as he prepped a deer for hanging in his garage. Showed me how you have to carefully cut away this piss sack so as not to spoil the meat. Anyway it would freak my kid out watching that snake’s mouth come open during the milking. We kept our distance.
