Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: BowEd on December 09, 2016, 08:12:42 pm
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My girlfriends'cousins' friend found this in his duck blind in Georgia.Quite a snake!!!!!His head looks as big as a softball.
(http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Beadman1/FB_IMG_1481300046227_zpsbsno0neb.jpg) (http://s920.photobucket.com/user/Beadman1/media/FB_IMG_1481300046227_zpsbsno0neb.jpg.html)
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The old snake on a stick with extended arms trick. Makes it look twice as big.
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Good thing he found it and not the other way around! Cheers- Brendan
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No disrespect but it does look a little photo shopped......
But that is a big snake....for sure
DBar
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That is an old picture that has been circling the Internet since at least 2013.
http://ww w.livingalongsidewildlife.com/2009/07/return-of-giant-killed-rattlesnake.html?m=1
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Got some more info on it.Yes it's probably not as big as it looks.A forced perspective look they call it????Anyway these are facts...It's 9'6" long with 22 rattles and 2.5" long fangs.Still quite a snake!!!!
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There is a standing reward at Reptile Gardens in Rapid City for ANY rattlesnake over 8 ft long, $25,000 cash.
That reward has never been paid out.
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Beadman, I think someone is telling you a story. That picture is 4 years old and shows up every now and then on the internet. Check out that link I posted. Or do a google image search for giant rattlesnake. It's in the first row of pictures.
I copied and pasted this from that article: (the Pat B. mentioned is not our Pat B)
The latest picture to be doing the rounds was brought to my attention by a comment left by by Amy R on this blog. She notes that the snake on the right was allegedly killed in Mississippi. Then, Pat B. sent me an e-mail and told me the story takes place outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Both said they heard the snake was eight and a half feet (2.6 meters) long (Amy R. also noted the snake allegedly had 21 rattles).
Where do we start? I'll start by saying that those lengths are bogus and the locations are...unlikely.
The snake in the picture is an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus. This is apparent because of the black and gold diamond-patterning and, of course, the rattle. This species does not reach eight and a half feet long. That would be the world's largest rattlesnake ever known to science. I don't believe this is the world's largest rattlesnake ever known because it is clearly an animal that is approximately half that size and thrust toward the camera on a long piece of wood. It's a rattlesnake camera trick I explain several times above and below.
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/Screenshot_2016-12-09-20-21-08_zpsqqprkmdl.png) (http://s666.photobucket.com/user/Outlawstaves/media/Screenshot_2016-12-09-20-21-08_zpsqqprkmdl.png.html)
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Wow I'd skin it and use it as a duck blind. >:D
For two!
Zuma
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When i was a kid i killed a rattlesnake on our small ranch that was 21 and a button it was thick but only about 4 1/2' long at the most
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I haven't seen a big one in years down here. The largest I ever caught was 9' 8" with 23 rattles and a button. That one is fat but not that long but still an old snake with 16 rattles and a button. And, I saw this on the net before.
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Your girlfriends' cousins' friend is pulling your leg
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Snakes... why does it always have to be snakes?
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The old snake on a stick with extended arms trick. Makes it look twice as big.
Hahaha. Yup. The old snake on a stick trick for sure. Really no need for that trick w that snake tho. Be a meal for the whole family around here. dp
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I haven't seen a big one in years down here. The largest I ever caught was 9' 8" with 23 rattles and a button. That one is fat but not that long but still an old snake with 16 rattles and a button. And, I saw this on the net before.
My biggest was 6' 4" back in the day. One scary snake.
Are you sure yours was 9' +???
That would be $25,000 + a bonus.
Zuma
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I was caught up in the 9' talk, Don :P Mine was 8' 8", 23 rattles and a button and skinned, it was a 1' 1/2 across the widest point. I got it in 1973. Back in the 60's and 70's it was nothing to see them over 6'. Now, with all of the developement and land cleared for phosphate mining you hardly see them or Indigos.
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And, I guess you guys are looking in the wrong places to collect the $25,000. The largest Eastern Indigo has been recorded to be 8'5" and unofficially known to exceed that. The largest Pine snake recorded missing a part of its tail to be 9' 2". The largest recorded Black Rat snake, or Western Rat snake was just a shade over 8'
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Snakes that big scare me. Just a 3' copperhead
striking at me sends chills. Yikes
When I was hunting them it was not that bad.
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The longest snake I've found was a 7' black rat snake. I took a picture of it laying on the ground with a tape measure beside it.
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We have an indigo in the yard every inch of seven feet. They're endangered here, according to FWS and so I don't even cut grass where it hangs out. Alabama has 50 native snake species, many critically endangered. Doesn't mean the unendangered venomous ones escape the skillet though.
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I think the last count I saw for Florida the most were on St. Vincent Island and there over 110 different species. Back in the 80's I saw several Indigos over eight feet on some of the undeveloped ranches down south. I picked up a Pine snake out of the road last year and turned it loose on the way to the archery club, that was every bit of 7'+. That was the first one I have seen in over 20 years.
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I have only had the pleasure of seeing one
of those iridescent Indigo's. A seven foot or so.
It was near the water front on a bay, near
Flamingo in the Glades. 1986 lol
Zuma
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I asked my girl friend and yes he's been known to exaggerate.He's a snake enthusiast.I'm really not.Just for covering bows is all.I was just sent the picture.I'm not one to be surfing on internet much for these things.He even said he knew the fella that killed it.
It's good to know the people better that send you info on the internet and sending it on.
Thanks for the info.
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Stories like this really aggravate me beadman. Somebody want's to get attention on facebook so they post a picture like that and say it was their buddy or a coworker that killed it. Other people see it and send it on. You get sent the picture and don't know its a lie. It's not your fault. It's the guy who is so desperate for attention that he has to make up lies to get it. It happens with deer pictures every year also. A friend of mine killed a huge typical deer on opening day of gun season a few years ago. I saw the deer in person. Pictures of it started going everywhere through text messages with miss information and even lies about him poaching it.
Next summer if I get a decent sized snake I'm going to take some pictures of it at different angles including the snake on a stick pose. I want to see how much the size is exaggerated by the way the picture is taken. I'll post the results.
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Clint, I wonder what I could start with a python on a stick? 8)
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Clint, I wonder what I could start with a python on a stick? 8)
You will need something bigger than a stick.
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no matter how big it is, I'm sure glad I don't have poisonous snakes around here.
I like the stick trick, I want to try that with a fish..lol Ed
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Ed, we have 5 native species and no telling how many exotic, poisonous snakes. every once in a while someones pet viper or cobra gets loose.
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I haven't seen an Eastern Diamond Back down here in 10 years. Been about that long since I've seen even a Pygmy. Shoot, I don't even see moccasins down here with the frequency I did 10 years ago but I do see them every time I go out to Big Cypress. It would be fun to kill one of those giant pythons and skin it out for the wall or my classroom.
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Back in the early 1970's I dried and mounted an Eastern Diamondback skin for the owner of one of the barrier islands off the coast of GA south of Savannah. I used a full length piece of plywood that was 18" wide and the skin hung off all 4 sides. I know the skin stretched some but it was a big sucker none the less. I remember seeing an old photo with 6 black men in the Low Country of SC. holding a dead diamondback rattler that was as long as the dirt road they were on was wide.
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Clint, I wonder what I could start with a python on a stick? 8)
(http://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Monty-Python-Funko-073015.jpg)
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Ed, we have 5 native species and no telling how many exotic, poisonous snakes. every once in a while someones pet viper or cobra gets loose.
Mr. Mullet, I'm so glad I never had that many poisonous snakes around here, I probably wouldn't still be here..lol on a bad note growing up without them, when I do go someplace that has them, I turn into a nervous wreck. Ed
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Ed, you wouldn't have much fun hunting down here. :) Everytime I sit down, leaning against a pine tree in the dark when I'm 40 yards from a Tom roosting, I scrape the ground clean with my boot. A few years ago I didn't and it was cool in March. I felt something all morning under my thigh and when I finally got up found a Pygmy Rattler had been keeping warm under my leg. Growing up with this, it becomes second nature wading and walking through the woods and swamps, here. You're always watching where you step and the tree limbs that are near you that might have a Mocassin sunning on about shoulder high.
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Back in the early 1970's I dried and mounted an Eastern Diamondback skin for the owner of one of the barrier islands off the coast of GA south of Savannah. I used a full length piece of plywood that was 18" wide and the skin hung off all 4 sides. I know the skin stretched some but it was a big sucker none the less. I remember seeing an old photo with 6 black men in the Low Country of SC. holding a dead diamondback rattler that was as long as the dirt road they were on was wide.
Pat, in the neighborhood I live in now used to be the country. There was an old Sinclair Gas Station that had an old photo of 4 Eastern Diamond backs hanging from just below the roof of the building that were every bit longer than 8'. They came from the woods my friends and I grew up in.