Rattlesnake Rattles

[rokdok]

It's a small collection of the biggest ones i've killed .Killed the biggest 2 on the same day in Hamilton co Fla.Eastern Diamondbacks.Biggest 20 and a button.

[ghost recon]

Those must have been huge old snakes. I've found a couple but much smaller. What is it...a year for every ring in age?

I was watching a proxibid auction today and noticed one of the bidders was rokdok something. Was that you? Do any good?

[Scotto]

Wow. That big one is the biggest I've seen. Must have been a whoppper there.

[rokdok]

Originally Posted by ghost recon

Those must have been huge old snakes. I've found a couple but much smaller. What is it...a year for every ring in age?

I was watching a proxibid auction today and noticed one of the bidders was rokdok something. Was that you? Do any good?

Not me bidding. The big snake was about 6 1/2 feet and i walked right up on him.Scared the crap out of me!!!

[jcinpc]

I killed this one while digging for artifacts back inthe 90`s, its missing about a foot and a half and wht I have now is almost 8 ft

[Rogue]

those are some huge snakes ....hate 2 run into one that big

[eddies]

if i saw that snake i would still be running no sh--.

[erb]

I have grown up with Rattlesnakes my entire life but I had no idea they grew that big. They look more like Anacondas with rattles.

[Palmwood]

I used to catch snakes when I was a kid. I never have been one to kill them. More accurately, I caught any creature that got too close to me. I had snakes, turtles, frogs, salamanders, squirrels, flying squirrels, bats, rabbits,......
My first big snake was a 4.5 ft speckled king snake. I was about 10 and we were at a family reunion in AR. I really wanted to take that snake home, and I begged my mom to let me put it in the car. I crammed it in a little milk carton, and only showed her the milk carton and said 'see it can't get out of here'. When we got home and I dumped it out in a cage where she could see how big it was I thought she was going to kill me. She said - you mean I rode all the way home with THAT!

The biggest I ever caught was a 7.5 ft mud snake I grabbed while we were canoeing the Dorcheat Bayou. My hand wouldn't close around it. Very docile snakes. I showed it to the gang and let him go.

internet image of a mud snake

[rokdok]

I had a mudsnake for a pet for about a year. Caught him crossing the road, and took him home.Easily the most docile snake i have ever seen.I turned him loose in the lake i grew up on, Banks lake in Lanier county Georgia at a Paleo site i reported to the local archeologist at VSU. He published a report on it and gave it a site# and never mentioned that an avocational had been involved in finding it even though he referenced a couple Clovis points in my collection as an indication of the age of the site .A not uncommon occurence, from what i understand.