Can you imagine how much venom that 'sucker' could deliver with one good bite???? Now imagine how much anti-venom it would take to counteract the venom? Lawdog
Posts: 1254 | Location: Northern California | Registered: 22 December 2002
The old hold-the-fish-out-pose helps beef him up to look like a six-footer. My guess is he's five feet in front of the guy, which makes the snake ..... too damn close if it was me.
Posts: 13816 | Location: Texas | Registered: 10 May 2002
My favorite all-time goofy pose was in a hunting magazine. The guy killed a huge Kodiak bear no doubt, but he sat so far behind the bear in the photo that his head was the same size as the end of the bear's nose.
It looked like Tinkerbell sitting on the bear's shoulder. It was a hoot.
Posts: 13816 | Location: Texas | Registered: 10 May 2002
Being a five footer is one thing it is the girth of the snake that impresses me. We commonly get 4 footers here in the rock quarries in the catskills but they are nowhere that big around.
Posts: 725 | Location: Upstate Rural NY | Registered: 16 July 2004
Supposedly that snake was just shy of 8 feet in length. I don't know anything about diamondbacks but I can say this one is big. The man looks like he has a standard snake hook. I don't know how long those are but some of the other "snake" people here might be able to tell us.
The report also said the snake weighed 89 pounds, I have my doubts about that. I had an 8 foot python once and it weighed around 30 pounds and was well fed.
Posts: 19248 | Location: The LOST Nation | Registered: 27 March 2001
Quote: The report also said the snake weighed 89 pounds
I'd say about 15 pounds at the heaviest, but an 89 pound estimate makes sense from a sportfishing perspective. Works that way with salmon, a 17 pound commercially caught salmon is a 35 pounder if caught by a sporty.
Posts: 1295 | Location: 3rd Planet from the Sun | Registered: 24 April 2003
I've seen an 8 foot rattlesnake before; this one is probably 5 to 6. He'll weigh maybe 35 lbs. I used to live in Erath County, and caught more than one bigger than this.
Quote: The report also said the snake weighed 89 pounds, I have my doubts about that. I had an 8 foot python once and it weighed around 30 pounds and was well fed.
Lets see...how much weight can a 4' long, 1/2" diameter thin walled aluminum tube hold on its end, held in the horizontal position, 2' from the nearest support!?!? It has a heck of a bend to it, but it is NOT 80+ pounds.
I can buy 20-25 lbs...still a hefty snake.
Anyone ever try fried rattlesnake???
Tastes like chicken! No really...nice firm white meat.
Posts: 1780 | Location: South Texas, U. S. A. | Registered: 22 January 2004
Quote: Tastes like chicken! No really...nice firm white meat.
No, chicken tastes like snake. Humans were eating snake thousands of years before chickens existed. All domestic chickens are descended from the Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) which were domesticated in Asia around 3000 years ago.
So now you know
Posts: 1295 | Location: 3rd Planet from the Sun | Registered: 24 April 2003
