Bowhunter Pins Two Rattlesnakes To The Ground With One Perfectly Placed Arrow

Okay, this guy is just showing off at this point, but nonetheless, still highly impressed by this.

Shooting double is the kind of thing all hunters dream of. Not in a realistic sense… it’s usually because they saw it in a movie or wanna play Robin Hood (or if you have a little girl at home, Princess Merida from Brave). I once saw an elderly lady accidentally drop two does with one rifle shot, and it was a complete accident (she didn’t know there was another standing behind her target), but it’s generally the kind of thing you only see with bird hunters.

Anyone who uses weapons, especially for hunting, knows the importance of being a good and confident shot. Like anything, practice makes perfect, and for bowhunters, splitting arrows is always something you want to be able to do. The ability to put shots consistently on the bullseye in practice is what will help you make better shots out there in the field when a massive buck or bull you’re after steps out into a shooting lane. It just becomes muscle memory once you’ve put enough hours in.

But, shooting more than one animal with one arrow seems like an impossible feat on paper… except for this guy.

The video shows him lining up a shot on a rattlesnake as two of them stand there together with their heads high up in the air. The hunter waits for the perfect moment and releases… bingo. He hit both snakes, pinning them together with one arrow.

Granted, he was pretty close to them, but an impressive shot nonetheless. And the fact that he seemed pretty stunned as well just goes to show you that he never expected to actually hit both targets at once.

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Bobcat And Rattlesnake Go Head To Head

This felt like a high level boxing match. Both sides were quick. One side had the size advantage but it was matched by the other’s one-strike power. A match up for the ages, but one must prevail, and this time size was victorious.

A bobcat and a rattlesnake squared up in Angeles National Forest in Arcadia, California in just the right spot to be captured on a trail cam, and it’s one of the best displays of the insane reaction time of cats, especially wild ones.

Rattlesnakes strike at about 10 feet per second, which doesn’t seem very fast, but when you realize they can hit your hand from a foot away in a tenth of a second, you start to realize it’s scary fast… But even more impressively, the bobcat is able to dodge every single attack thrown out by the snake and secure a win with a combination of strikes and one well placed bite.

Safe to say it wasn’t the first time he’d taken out a rattlesnake, and judging by the success, it won’t be the last.

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