Its got to be kept in perspective. Sure a record largemouth bass record may be broken but its been how many decades that the current record has held and if and when it ever gets broken, it will be within a few ounces. Butraising a record bassis something that has not even been reproduced in artifical conditions. Its kinda like geneting (sp?)a 6 foot human from a pigmy. I have handled reptiles most of my life and been bitten 5 times by venomous snakes, also posseed a dangerous reptile permit and have sold poisonious snakes to numerious serpenteriumsand I have only heard of about 5 diamondbacks reaching 8 foot, and theywere dead ones. I am sure you may get the freakey huge exception in any specie, but they are far and few between. I would just like to see a remarkable thophy of a huge rattler, ALIVE.

Bobby