I can understand being a little trigger happy after losing a family dog to a snake bite but there was no need to throw the tent away! Had I had a bucket/trash can/cooler around I would have shooed it in there and kept it in there as long as I was camping so I could let it go when we left. But I'll stop in'...

To me it looks like the rattler did have an abbarent pattern making it a very prized possession for viper breeders. You may have to post it in a viper forum somewhere else to get a positive ID. Without a normal pattern its hard to tell.

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