This is a BIG UN!

[matador1]

My mom's second husband killed one around Waynesboro when I was in school. He had it tanned and the widest part was 11 1/2 inches wide with the belly scales cut off. So yeah , I believe it's real. Had 12 or 13 rattles and a button I believe. Around 6 - 6 1/2 foot long. I've seen pics when I was rodeoing out in sout Texas of 8 plus footers.

[quackwacker]

Come up to noth ms around bull mountain bottom and you will see some big uns. The biggest that came out of there had 17 rattlers.

[teul2]

A guy I work with emailed it to me.
It has been forwarded a few times but not but like 3 or 4 (that I can tell by the headers).

[bamahunter]

As someone mentioned earlier...that things big but he has it moved out close to the camera and that gives the "huge" appearance...that's my 2 cents anyway.

[gadwall2]

GC, looks like he is using snake tongs. They pinch instead on grab.

I believe the photo. They can get that big. I have seen cotton mouths that were bigger.

I ain't got the sack to get that close to em.

[tunica]

I once almost stepped on a eight foot grass snake..yup scared to death of them...I dont like anything that looks like a snake and anything bigger than My ___________ is worth killing. So if its one inch long its getting recycled into food for the bugs.

That dang thing is going to come back again tonight when I try to sleep thanks fella's for posting My nightmare.

[RIP EM]

Rip Em !

[RebelYelp]

no no no guys we've been reading this all wrong,

this snake ACTUALLY came from the Ms. delta and THAT'S why we haven't had any birds the past few years!!!! i don't know why we never thought of this before!! they were scared silly to come here.

[RIP EM]

RebYelp seems to have figgured this out fer us !

It makes as much scense as some of the other horse_ _ _ _ , we hear in dis place !

Mind ya now,... My HS might be the dumbest of any !

Dad always told me I twernt the sharpest tool in the shed !

I'm afraid, my trying to figure out these ducks,... is only proving him right !

It's fun nontheless ! Think I'll keep at it !

BTW rebelyelp,.... WHERE IN DA HECK YOU BEEN ????

Rip Em !

[chopper30]

I agree with everyone who said he is holding it up close to the camera. The guy is holding it on a 10 foot pole!

[Dutch Dog]

If you look at the left side (his right side) of his face, it looks un-natrual in shape as if it were superimposed upon the picture or something was doctored for sure. I believe that a rattler can get that big, only there is something wrong with this picture. I personally killed a western diamondback with a fiberglass bowfishing arrow outside of freer tx 2 years ago, that was 6 ft long and had 11 rattles and a button. My buddies killed one later that afternoon that was the same size (with a 7 mag...sissies) and let one get into the "brush" that was bigger. We saw one at "freer deer camp" (an outfitter business in town) that was about 3 1/2' long and the guy there who was buying them by the pound said it weighed 4 lbs. He told us he would buy any freshly killed or live rattlers for $5/lb. That is the area where they have those rattlesnake roundups every spring...and that is why they were buying the snakes to cook and sell.

[teul2]

Aint nothing wrong with that mans face. He's just fat and has a bad hair cut.

[RIP EM]

If dat ol boy ain't a Melton,...... ain't nobody !



Rip Em !

[RebelYelp]

rip em,

i been in school, economics class might i add, i'm gettin educated and waitin on turkey season.

i think that poor hand has been drinkin some of granpappy's ole cough syrup personally cause that's a big ole snake and he's smilin about it, either that or he jsut got paid a large sum of money for it.

Jake

[mudsucker]

By the pound, brother