Life in Lynch Lair at Wildcat Station

[thatguy]

I used to go out with Mike Rovetti up the tracks by Bateh Brothers and catch rattlers. He had a method of putting a tube sock up his arm, pinning the snake’s head down with a long stick, then grabbing the snake’s face with the sock hand and inverting the sock over the snake. Tie a little knot in the end of a sock, then put that in a pillow case. We caught a few and he kept them in tanks in his closet (with all his other reptiles). He bred them and then released them back where we found them.

—tg