Shot a rattler at the house....

I'll be honest...I HATE snakes and don't want any part of being around them.
Years ago I was sent to Ft. Polk, LA, for both basic training and AIT. My first day on post I picked up a post newspaper and there on the front page was a pic of a soldier who had killed a rattler out in the woods. He was holding the head of the snake out at shoulder height and the snake's tail was dragging in the dirt.
Turned out they had four different types of snakes on post: rattlesnakes, copperheads, water mocassins and coral snakes - all poisonous.
Luckily, I never saw one the entire time I was there.