article_snippet: The Annual Sweetwater Jaycee’s World’s
article_snippet: Largest Rattlesnake Roundup hosts hunts, beauty and eating contests, demonstrations, vendors selling snake-skin products and more.
article_snippet: A group of boys watch a rattlesnake in a pit at the Sweetwater Jaycees World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup as a snake handler makes sure the snakes are moved around .
article_snippet: Sweetwater Jaycees clean and skin the rattlesnakes before the rattlesnakes are cooked.
article_snippet: A crowed watches handlers clean and skin rattlesnakes during the 2015 Sweetwater Jaycees World Largest Rattlesnake Roundup at the Nolan County Coliseum .
article_snippet: A hunt for snakes starts about a month before the 2015 Sweetwater Jaycees World Largest Rattlesnake Roundup at the Nolan County Coliseum, and hunters are able to harvest about 5,000 pounds of snakes - which averages out into about 1,000 snakes.
article_snippet: Some opponents to the Roundup are concerned with the treatment and slaying of the rattlesnakes and suggested a no-kill roundup.
article_snippet: Sweetwater Jaycees, however, told the Odessa American that it would be irresponsible to release such a dangerous creature back into the area after capturing it.
article_snippet: Sweetwater Jaycees say that the the Roundup harvests about 5,000lb of snakes each year, which serves as a form of population control. 
article_snippet: Rattlesnake hunters use a gas to lure the snakes out of Rattlesnake hunters hiding places, but with a potential ban on the methods of catching the snakes, Sweetwater is unsure as to what will happen with the Sweetwater Jaycees World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup in years to come .
highlights_snippet: The Annual Sweetwater Jaycee's World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup has been going on since 1958 .
  
highlights_snippet: The Annual Sweetwater Jaycee's World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup hosts hunts, beauty and eating contests, demonstrations, vendors selling snake-skin products and more .
  