what they dont tell you is how many rattle snakes there are in texas in the wild, there are millions and growing, IM NOT DEFENDING IT, but as a hunter i can understand what they are doing cuz if you think about it what natural predators does it really have to keep the population down? eventually the state would just be so over run with rattle snakes, just like how where i live (north jersey) we have become so over run with bears that they have become use to ppl and have resulted in several major attacks cuz ppl start to see them as pets, so now they just started a bear hunt this year. yeah it sucks but there really is just too many of them and atleast they arent just killing them and doing nothing with them (the rattle snakes), but on the other hand im sure the ppl running it dont care about population of the snake and will keep doing it till theres nothing left