Huge Texas Rattlesnake!

Again, to clarify my posts. I don't know about the snakes, it appears a lot of you guys have seen em' that big so THERE IT IS, the get that big! No argument on that from me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

My question is, am I the only person that is laughing at the top picture? I mean I see NO WAY that picture is untampered with... it looks primative... not even up to a photoshop job, more like scissors and glue to me?!?! Am I alone here? The picture just doesn't look right... maybe its the drugs I'm not taking! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Looks real to me JRB. I've also seen this photo elsewhere on the internet on some sort of Equestrian site. It's real, that da*m snake is so big it almost looks fake.

Eastern Diamondbacks get even bigger still!
 
How big is it? I don't know. Just wanted to reply to those that say dead snakes hang straight. Yer wrong.

I caught one 2 years ago, small 3 footer, Skinned it out to make a hanging for the wall, took the carcass in the house, put it in the sink in a bowl of salt water. Headless, skinless, gutless snake curled up, out of the bowl, out of the sink and onto the floor. This was probably a half hour after his demise.

In College, I killed a snapping turtle with plans of reconstructing the skeleton. We took the heart and placed it in a beaker with salt water. It continued beating for 4 days.

You probably won't believe either story but that's ok. If you try it yourself I am sure I will be proven honest.
 
Hey, Krikit:

Can anyone from Newc City, Wyoming be trusted?

I know of at least one unscrupulous used car dealer from that part of the country. LOL

Take Care - BCB /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
One reason that snake in the first photo looks so big is because it had just swallowed a TRAIN. They always look bigger just after dinner. :eek:
 
Having hunted all over the SW, I've seen some rattlesnakes. The biggest one I ever saw is right here in the town I live in, Carrizozo NM. It's in a saloon called the Outpost, with it's head it's 7' 4" and about a foot wide. NASA even went to the saloon to see it, now he wants to go on the Alamagorda rattlesnake round-up this coming spring. What the heck, I think I'll go and take some pictures /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
True story! That 7 footer came out of the hills right there near Carrizozo. And I WILL go to the round-up next year. I'll be on a team that competes every year. I've only caught them for fun, played with them, then let them go. Never caught them for competition before. I'm afraid that if I find a 7 footer I may not want to kill it. When they get that big, they're special. Must be the Cherokee in me.
 
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Yes sir, I do believe that rattlesnakes can grow to be six foot or larger. A friend of mine in high school had a skin on his wall that stretched from the cieling to the floor. It was caught by his dad years before, and it was a big snake. Keep in mind that they cut off the head before they skinned it so it was over 8 feet when alive. The girth on the skin was unbelievable, I wish I had measurements. Needless to say I am a believer. txpred
 
I think the picture may be doctored. I have killed some 5 and 6 ft. diamondbacks, and they are not rare. The snake in this picture would be close to 8 ft., and that is exactly how big it was advertised in the e-mail sent to me. That would be a rare diamondback....anywhere. But I have searched the internet for a newspaper article or something, and all I have ever come up with is this exact photo. I think you have to follow the old journalist adage.....confirm your sources. If you can't find another source, throw it out. If this guy had caught a snake that big, don't you think he would want some publicity?
 
Stephenville Newspaper
I guess I'm wrong...but it isn't 8 ft!

E-mail snake a whopper, but it’s no lie
By JOYCE WHITIS
Correspondent

A picture of a Texas-size rattlesnake held by a man dressed in camouflage currently being passed e-mail to e-mail across the country features a caption saying the snake is from Erath County.

Actually, the snake — which measures 6 feet and has 14 rattlers — was captured by Jim Bob Basham in Eastland County on Morris Greenhaw’s place. Desdemona is just over the county line, so the snake probably has spent some time in Erath.

“I’ve been hunting snakes most of my life,” Basham said. “I told my mother that I was going snake hunting with a friend when I was 10 years old. She didn’t think I’d see any but we came back with 20 snakes hung on a pole. I’ve been catching snakes ever since. But now I just catch rattlers.”

Basham caught the snake pictured on Nov. 11, 2003.

“I keep the snakes in a horse stall down in the barn and when spring comes, I sell them to guys that put on snake shows at the rattlesnake roundups,” Basham said. “Steve Raines and Jacky Bibby put on these shows, crawling into sleeping bags stuffed with rattlers and stuff like that, so try to keep them supplied. This snake that I got on Morris’ place is going to be stuffed, though. I didn’t want to sell him.”

Basham gathers from 100 to 200 snakes a year and has never been bitten. He wears snake chaps that come up to his knee and once a rattler struck at him and caught his fangs over the top of his right chap. That’s the closest he’s been to being bit.

Besides hunting snakes, Basham enjoys calling in coyotes and deer hunting with youngsters, teaching them the ways of the outdoors. Every deer-season, Jimmy Houston brings his children to Basham’s ranch in Comanche County to hunt.

Houston has an outdoor life show on ESPN on which Basham has been a guest several times, both in bass fishing and in snake hunting.

“Snakes like rocky places, even old rock houses, or cellars, to den up in,” Basham said. “There’s a place over in Comanche County where the rocks pile up and make a small cave. When you go in and your eyes get used to the dim light, you can see some really big snakes moving around, snakes bigger than the 6 footer in the picture.

“I haven’t caught one out of the cave, yet.” Jim Bob Basham smiled. “But someday I will, and when I do, I’ll send you a picture.”
 
I’m new to these boards so let me start off by saying hello to all. If anyone would like to see the original of that picture just stop by Handy's liquor store in Procter TX. It is on the wall behind the counter. I hadn’t seen the newspaper article about the snake until I read it here. It says that it was captured on Morris Greenhaw’s ranch which just happens to be less than a mile from my parent’s house. :eek:
 
Originally posted by Brandon T.:
[qb] I know Jim Bob Basham personally and the snake is real..
I've seen him dump live snakes out in the floor at country boys gun shop... [/qb]
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Younger snakes make a better meal... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
we got some big rattlers up here in kansas and yes some db's too killed one up here a few years ago 5'10" with 13 rattles he was under the swing me my grandma and brother was sittin on didnt hear him rattle till the air conditioner cut off then jumped off the swing pulled a tarp from under the swing n there he was ended up knokin his head off with a shovel
 
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