Bruce Graybill, Bruce Weber Rattlesnake hunt

Champion Mandolinist Bruce Graybill catches live Timber Rattlesnake on a hunt with Bruce Weber (owner of Sound to Earth Ltd., maker of Weber fine acoustic instruments) as his guide. The story as Bruce Graybill tells it: " I was recently in Montana to pick woods for a couple of custom Mandolins Bruce Weber was building for me. We had a few extra hours at the end of the week so we went Rattlesnake hunting in some steep, rocky hills about 20 miles away from Logan, Montana. After about 30 minutes of hiking up and down the hills Bruce Weber encountered two snakes together in the rocks. He called to tell me of his find and waited for me to work my way down the hill to where he was watching the snakes who had not yet noticed him. I managed to pin both of them with the only two snake sticks (no snares) we had and as I realized I could do little with either snake without the other being freed, Bruce Weber stepped over a third snake just a couple of feet from me. As his rattlesnake tried to get away from him down a hole in the rock, he grabbed it by the tail and started pulling it back out of the hole. Unfortunately the rattles broke in the middle and his snake got away. I started pulling one of the two snakes I had pinned out of the rock enough we could see that one of them was a very big Bull snake and the other a Timber Rattlesnake. I released the Bull and used the second stick to work on the rattlesnake that was striking at me and the stick very angrily. After pinning his head I picked him up just behind his jaws so he couldn't bite me. He was REALLY PISSED! I held him as Bruce Weber shot this video and then we killed him so I could get back down the steep hill without losing control of him if I slipped, and getting bit. After we got him back to the Weber's place Bruce skinned him and took me to catch my flight. I took the rattles home with me on my flight, but we figured the ATA would take the snake if I put him in baggage so Bruce is shipping him here after I fly home. I will eat him, have a Mandolin strap made from his skin, and put the rattles inside the next Mandolin he is building for me. It was a truly thrilling experience!"

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Music

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• graybill
• weber
• mandolin
• rattlesnake
• snake
• extreme
• radical
• hunt

[togetherless]

Dude. You're a wild man. Now how about some video of mandolin playing?

[StinkOnIt]

I'll try to get him to make some video and let me post it. I had a hard time getting him to let me post this. I have been trying to convince him to put his music here for a long time because I don't think near enough people have heard this cat play!

Ross

[StinkOnIt]

Turn volume up high so you can hear the snake's rattles buzzing!

[bigcityhabit]

nut

[agates11]

Bruce.... You are the coolest. When we hit Montana to record, we are going to snake hunt... Great seein you at NAMM!

[LeroyMadMan]

You got to have some mighty big balls to hold on to one of those things while it is so pissed off. Didn't you worry it would bite you? You could have died...

[BanjoCrazyDude]

Holy crap! That thing is buzzing like hell. Why would you intentionally go looking for one of these things? They are deadly! And how/why are you going to put it in your mandolin?

[stonefly]

that is hilarious! NRA forever!