squirrelkilla23

stoneman

If I'm near civilization, I kill poisonous snakes...just hate to hear of a kid getting bit after I letone live. If I'm in the "sticks", I let 'em live. I lived in KY for 6 years, and we'd occaisionally find rattlers or copperheads near our house. Sometimes we killed 'em, sometimes we relocated them. I had an argument with another OHio resident a couple years ago. I said there were no rattlers in Ohio...we ended up called the Dept. Of Wildlife, and the ranger we spoke to said there were. I've still never met anyone that's ever seen one in Ohio though...I'm guessing it must be down south near WV and KY. To topic, I really think that a rattler THAT big, would shake me up. I'd kill it just to have the hide most likely, and maybe some stew.

shump

sry i could not let this one go.91lbs put 91lbs on a stick and try to hold it out like he is doing.and for killing the snakes cuz they kill us how many people die every year from snake bites.let them the hell alone and learn more about them them maybe you will see how good snakes are.now flame away

CamoCop

hey Rebel, did you ever see the pic of the black man holding the eastern diamondback rattler that was killed in the wekiva springs area? the snake was said to be like 13 foot 2 inches long and appeared to be that long looking at the pic. the man had huge arms (biceps) and it looked as if he was having a hard time holding it up. the pic also said the black man was over 6 foot tall and he was holding the snake with both forearms and the snake was touching the ground on both ends.

121553

I want to see a picture of that. A dead snake with its mussles relaxed will stretch maybe 20%. Therefore making that snake 10 or 11foot when it was alive. I would personally pay $1,000.00 just to see a live 11 foot diamonback. Why? Cause they don't exist.There is no such thing as an 11 foot diamondback, just like there ain't no 50 ft women or a 30 pound largemouth bass. Genetics just don't make it happen. I believe you may of seen a picture of that camo, and I don't doubt that,but I'm sure it was inhanced also.

Bobby

CamoCop

i dunno if the pic was real or not...looked real but i wasn't there in person. also, do you think the current world record largemouth bass (22 pounds 4 ounces) will never be surpassed? just making conversation, not trying to start a fight.

DoctorDeath

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I would personally pay $1,000.00 just to see a live 11 foot diamonback. Why? Cause they don't exist.There is no such thing as an 11 foot diamondback, just like there ain't no 50 ft women or a 30 pound largemouth bass. Genetics just don't make it happen.
Bobby
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Well gee Bobby I caught a 7lb Blue Gill last year ...catching a 7lb Blue Gill is not that hard to do BUT whats REALLY hard is trying to find a 4lb cricket

dd

121553

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

C. Davis

Yea, I believe size of snakescan be exagerated. I got a frantic phone call from my mother in law one afternoon about a six foot rattler under her porch. I was excited and couldn't wait get over there and see the big snake. When I got over there, it was a hog nosed snake that was barely 2 feet long. Knowing my mother in law was watching me and the snake through her living room window, I got it to puff up like a cobra while vibrating its tail like a rattler, and then roll over and play dead. I amazed her when after it played dead, I pick it up like a rope and threw it over her fenceinto the woods.

I told her I scared it to death.

It's pretty cool to do things like that with you mother in law.

C. Davis

enginegrunt

I'm from Grew up in Wyoming. Out there we have Prairie rattlers. The biggest I've ever seen myself is around 4 feet. I have a opinion when to kill rattlers and not to. Rattlers are a valuable hunter in the western states. Most of them Ive seen have been in prairie dog towns. I will not kill a snake if it gives me warning. Prime example out hunting and walking though Sage brush and the next thing I here. You guessed it. about 10 feet away. Plenty of warning I went around. They just want ot be left alone. Let em live and keep the rodent population down. Plus they fascinate me and I find them absolutely beautiful