The 86-year-old Okeene Rattlesnake Roundup kicks off this week and is one of several rattler-themed community events in western Oklahoma. If you're interested in hunting for snakes or just want to ...

Hunters rightly dread crowds that turn game skittish or push them out of an area altogether, but from longtime Rattlesnake elk chaser Craig MacDonald's perspective that's the nature of public land.

Rattlesnakes don't spit poison. They get from one place to another about as speedily as a tired turtle. But they make their home in some of the most barbarous terrain this side of the Black Hills.

RATTLESNAKE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA - It's 4:45 p.m. on opening day of rifle season when the incongruous phrase rises from a knot of hunters sporting mountain bikes and the typical array of camo, ...