RE: How would you like to come up on THIS in the woods?
 

I'm from the Amarillo area, and have farmed around Fritch. There's no doubt that there are A LOTof rattlers around here. Last summer I saw the most I'd ever seen. But none this size. That thing is a monster! The bad thing about rattlers is they don't always rattle. I'm sure some biologist or someone on here will disagree with me, but I've been around them enough to know! Some rattle, some don't. But both scare the crap out of me! I've got some snake chaps, but have never worn them. I think I'll be wearing them from now on. You'd need more than chaps to stop that snake though. It'd break your leg when it struck.

Snake-Zilla!!!!!!!!

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WOW! that thing is huge.

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With a pair of snake catchers and the correct camera lens, it's easy to make a large rattlesnake look like a monster. Holding the snake close to the camera makes him look big and the guy with the catchers look small.

I've caught and sold many, many rattlesnakes, and a western diamondback over even 51/2 feetis a rare find. A snake over 6' is very, very rare. And out of the thousands of snakes I've caught, only one went over 6 1/2 feet. It was just slightly larger than a 6'6" t-post (I was building fence at the time). He was large enough, one set of catchers wouldn't pick him up, so I restrained the head with the catchers and had to grab the body. I'd never seen a snake that big, so I wound up letting him go. I tried to take pictures with my dad's 35mm camera, but the film didn't advance and the pictures didn't turn out.

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I have to come down on the side of the snakes.I used to raise them just to get over the fear of them.BUT asnake that size would have me backing up.Why I love cold mornings.

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look why kill snakes ? i live in sc they are to many snakes here to name if you are scared back away if i dont move find a stick long enough so you dont get bit a rattler can strike half it body length and just move it it will leave trust i know . i'm like dd i can handle snakes but spiders bye bye .i rather fight a grizzly than tangle with a spider .

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Thats how I feel, I just can't deal with no spiders. I'll take my changes with a grizz any day too. ;)

Bobby

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dont forget scorpions dont like them either ask my brother cause i just about killed him one day about that .lol stacy

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All snakes are threatened species ifI see them.

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I have before.
Them things scare the hebyjebjs out of you.
That looks like the ones that come out of the woods where I
Was when I was younger.

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here is what happened to the last one to crawl near my tree stand.