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Rattler
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This snake was recently found at the old Turkey Creek gas plant
located just south of the Alibates Turnoff on Highway 136 south
of Fritch Texas.
[THAT'S JUST NORTH OF AMARILLO]
located just south of the Alibates Turnoff on Highway 136 south
of Fritch Texas.
[THAT'S JUST NORTH OF AMARILLO]
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No matter what anybody else tells you, kill the snake before you try to do anything else to it!
It's the safest way for you and the snake doesn't care anymore.[:0][:0][:0]
(note to self : cancel vacation in Fritch, TX)
[:0][xx(][|)]
I haven't even IMAGINED one THAT
big before! What a nightmare!
Can you imagine having that monster
locked onto your face after poking
your head somewhere you shouldn't
have!?
... time to move on to another post![:0]
we used to catch diamond backs, the average was about 4', a BIG one was 5-6. Nice snake. My x got all the pics of my friends and I hand cathing and holding a live snake in each hand. We figured sense DB's don't really kill too many people each year, no big deal. We all went to pawn shops and bought like a 5-7 iron with a long shaft, cut off the head, put a bend to it, and we had out pinning tool.
...we used to tan the skin with an anti-freeze solution of some kind, ate the meat. The meat is as white as a fish meat., just a little meat down their back bone, back strap.
...Now with everything I know that happens to you after you get bit, all the sweeling,bursting, oozing, and skin rotting, I would not hand catch 'em....[8D]...[xx(]
"We don't know the particulars of this photograph's origins, but it looks to be another case of a genuine image accompanied by some possibly inaccurate or exaggerated information. (The snake's positioning closer to the camera lens than the man holding it makes the reptile appear larger than it really is, and even a 9-foot rattler is unlikely to weight anywhere close to 97 lbs. unless it had just ingested a large animal.)"
To me the snake looks more like 6-7 feet long. At that length it would weigh at most 20-40 pounds. At 9 feet long it would weigh possibly 30-50 + pounds. I would have to weigh over 10 pounds a foot to be 97 pounds. Not likely if you reason on it.
It is just a two footer, with a good attorney.
Trinity +++
The snake is large, between 5 and 6 feet. It ain't no nine footer.
To weigh 97 pounds, the snake would have to be about 15 feet long.
No thinking snake handler will ever use tongs on a snake. Snakes are deceptively fragile creatures, and tongs do damage. Tongs are what the macho cowboys use at "rattlesnake roundups." But all the snakes they "catch" end up dead.
If it has any muscle tone left, it is from after-death nerve activity.
If snake's had necks this snake's neck would be broken.
Nunn is right, the snake would not be hanging limp. Someone smashed that critters head, and it is dead. If it were alive it would be twisting up and around to try and see what has a grip on it. And, knowing how far a rattler can strike, I wouldn't go handling one that long with such a short pole. I bet it didn't weigh over 30 lbs!
Trinity +++
A live snake would be shaking that sucker to beat hell.[;)]
Trinity +++
At any rate it is a big snake
I'd bet there might be bigger ones out there. The
only limiting factor to a rattler's size is his food
supply. I've seen lots of them around 6' - not uncommon
in the deserts of the Southwest - especially in AZ and CA.
http://www.kingsnake.com/venom/atrox.html
Big snake, though.
That timber rattlesnake is indeed a large one, they are rarely over 5 feet, but I kinda doubt 30 pounds for a weight.