Yeah, throwing rocks at the freaking snake, that's cooperating with nature
Everything that rattles isn't a rattlesnake, either, though. That's what the thread title immediately made me think of.
I don't typically youtube anything, but put up a bunch of videos years ago(didn't even remember most of them being on there). Quality mostly sucks. Think this "rattler" video was with a 512
MB camera, if that tells you anything.
I say "he's an aggressive little bugger", but I had just stepped on him, and he'd just dry struck me..."defensive" would have been a better term. Copperheads usually just lay there, though sometimes you can walk them off the trail by getting close and staying that way so they keep moving.
https://youtu.be/4_LquI4yw_o
This little goober wanted to be a rattlesnake, too
https://youtu.be/Uc6ycGcBGaI
Now I'm wondering where in the bag of old memory cards and USB drives my rattler videos are...