Posted: 6/10/2013 6:50:16 AM EDT
I was sitting in the bar Saturday night and this guy showed me this picture. He said his buddy in Texas shot this a week or so ago. He was out hog hunting and this little guy started to come up under his blind. He said it was 9'6" long, its head is 5 1/2" wide and has 22 rattles. Not sure but I would guess that has to be some kind of record.
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I was sitting in the bar Saturday night and this guy showed me this picture. He said his buddy in Texas shot this a week or so ago. He was out hog hunting and this little guy started to come up under his blind. He said it was 9'6" long, its head is 5 1/2" wide and has 22 rattles. Not sure but I would guess that has to be some kind of record. <a href="http://s1320.photobucket.com/user/bsmith8315/media/imagejpeg9521_zpscf70a5d8.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u530/bsmith8315/imagejpeg9521_zpscf70a5d8.jpg</a> thats a picture using tricks to make the snake larger...... this however, is more disturbing, and real. 
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looks to me as hes holding it with a stick. Not my picture or friend , but that snake is fucking huge Right - he's holding it toward the camera with a stick, so that it appears to be as long as he is, but that's just a trick, because the camera has the guy and the snake (mostly) in focus, and there's plenty of light. Quoted:
thats a picture using tricks to make the snake larger...... this however, is more disturbing, and real. http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp58/buck19delta/user6558_pic746_1215789613.jpg  nopenopenopenopenopenopenope
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Quoted: Quoted: I was sitting in the bar Saturday night and this guy showed me this picture. He said his buddy in Texas shot this a week or so ago. He was out hog hunting and this little guy started to come up under his blind. He said it was 9'6" long, its head is 5 1/2" wide and has 22 rattles. Not sure but I would guess that has to be some kind of record. <a href="http://s1320.photobucket.com/user/bsmith8315/media/imagejpeg9521_zpscf70a5d8.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u530/bsmith8315/imagejpeg9521_zpscf70a5d8.jpg</a> thats a picture using tricks to make the snake larger...... this however, is more disturbing, and real. http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp58/buck19delta/user6558_pic746_1215789613.jpg This is why I have a supply of 3-1/2" 12 gauge ammo. 2-1/4 ounces of #6 shot will take care of that problem. |
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He knows how to take a pic, like holding a fish out in front of you.
I killed this one last year on some land I hunt here in North Florida, I'm 6' 1, it had 13 rattles. I've killed a pile of rattlers bu this is the largest for me. 
Laying across the bed of my F250 
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I was sitting in the bar Saturday night and this guy showed me this picture. He said his buddy in Texas shot this a week or so ago. He was out hog hunting and this little guy started to come up under his blind. He said it was 9'6" long, its head is 5 1/2" wide and has 22 rattles. Not sure but I would guess that has to be some kind of record. <a href="http://s1320.photobucket.com/user/bsmith8315/media/imagejpeg9521_zpscf70a5d8.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u530/bsmith8315/imagejpeg9521_zpscf70a5d8.jpg</a> thats a picture using tricks to make the snake larger...... this however, is more disturbing, and real. http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp58/buck19delta/user6558_pic746_1215789613.jpg Needs more shotgun. |
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Dudes pic is on the 5th row of google for "big rattlesnake"
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=off&q=big%20rattlesnake&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=lu61UbH9LcPk0QHS5oGYAQ&biw=937&bih=433&sei=me61Ub_2G8W20gHh-YDIDg |
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He knows how to take a pic, like holding a fish out in front of you. I killed this one last year on some land I hunt here in North Florida, I'm 6' 1, it had 13 rattles. I've killed a pile of rattlers bu this is the largest for me. http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo315/sdeshazo_photos/Snake2.jpg Forced perspective. Midget by a Ford Ranger. TRG |
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thats a picture using tricks to make the snake larger...... this however, is more disturbing, and real. http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp58/buck19delta/user6558_pic746_1215789613.jpg Time for an NFA 12-gauge, a flamethrower, and anything else you can throw at that pipe... |
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supposedly the record for rattlesnakes is 96 inches (8 feet). eastern diamonback. IIRC there is a 10-foot eastern on display at the Florida state zoo. I ran over and killed an 8-footer on Eglin AFB back in '76. They do get big. The thing that has me about the photo in the op is the number of rattles on that snake. That's an old snake and big snakes are old snakes. It may very well be that the snake really is up into the 8 to 10 foot range. |
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Quoted: Quoted: looks to me as hes holding it with a stick. Not my picture or friend , but that snake is fucking huge Right - he's holding it toward the camera with a stick, so that it appears to be as long as he is, but that's just a trick, because the camera has the guy and the snake (mostly) in focus, and there's plenty of light. Quoted: thats a picture using tricks to make the snake larger...... this however, is more disturbing, and real. http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp58/buck19delta/user6558_pic746_1215789613.jpg nopenopenopenopenopenopenope |