FILE -Sweetwater Jaycees clean and skinned rattlesnakes during 57th Sweetwater Jaycees World Largest Rattlesnake Round-up at the Nolan County Coliseum in Sweetwater Texas, March 14, 2015.

Sweetwater has held its rattlesnake roundup for more than six decades, "and what we have figured out over 64 years is that we're not damaging the population of the snakes whatsoever," Cumbie said.

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LaRue Sheffield shows off an eastern diamondback rattlesnake during the 44th Annual Whigham Rattlesnake Roundup in Whigham, Ga., Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004.