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ranch south of San Antonio. Just recently, within a seven-day span, he killed three rattlers.

“I’m on a tractor a whole lot out here,” he said. “I get to see plenty of snakes. But the rattlers can be pretty aggressive. One that I ran into recently was 5-feet from the front door of our house. I came up on it but didn’t have a gun with me. I managed to grab a shovel and kill it. That one was about 5-feet-long and was very aggressive.”

A 5- to 6-foot rattlesnake is certainly in the larger class. Caballero likes the skin mounts on a board. But he’s got a buddy that shot a 6-footer the other day and is