what type snake would this had been?

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Kenneth in Texas

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Found his skin in my driveway, measured 79" end to end and that wasnt even really stretched out. Thats almost 7 feet long, my word.
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King Snake is about the only thing of that size. It's interesting that he was able to change clothes with ripping into multiple pieces. Maybe you scared him so bad he jumped out of his britches,I know I would have if he surprised me.:shocked:
 
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man had i came up on something that size in my woods i would have shed my skin too. Never seen a snake this long.
 
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Out of courosity I looked at snakes of Tx and I stand corrected,the Tx Rat Snake is the largest as well as most common non-venomous snake in Tx. I actuall went to the snake id site to find two snakes I incountered many times as a kid in the 50s. One was 18" to 30", shiny blue colored and moved more rapidly than others. My granddad called them Blue Racers. The other was about the same size,dusty dark,reared the front part of his body well above ground,hissed and spread his body just below the head resembling a Cobra. One of the few snakes I've seen that stood and faught rather than flee. I gave them plenty of practice fighting but never killed them unless dogs joined the fight. Granddad called those Spreaden Outers. Have not seen either in last 50 years. I didn't find anything on the web site that sounded like either. Anyone know about this pair?
 
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jaxs, up here we have "spreaden outers" we call them blowsnakes or puff adders. Pretty impressive display, like a cobra but harmless. Don't know the real name of them, maybe hognose snake?
 
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jaxs, up here we have "spreaden outers" we call them blowsnakes or puff adders. Pretty impressive display, like a cobra but harmless. Don't know the real name of them, maybe hognose snake?

We have them too...we called them Spread-heads, puff adders and hognosed snakes.
 
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Up here we have "black rat snake" Pantherophis obsoletus - Wikipedia

Almost stepped on one, thought it was a garden hose. We both jumped back from that one (in opposite directions).

We had deer netting over our little fishpond for a couple of years to keep leaves out. Problem is leaves in the netting all winter would make it stink when you hauled it out in the spring, so we spread it out on an out-of-the-way spot back by the compost. Apparently, mice like to hide under leaves and tangled things, and snakes will go after them. We had two caught in the mesh, but they still wiggled. So I pinned their heads and cut the mesh with a pair of scissors. You could see each of them take a big deep breath and get a lot more lively once I got their ribcage free. I made sure to toss them with the stick away from the netting so they wouldn't just hide right back under it again. Tossed the netting.
 
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jaxs, up here we have "spreaden outers" we call them blowsnakes or puff adders. Pretty impressive display, like a cobra but harmless. Don't know the real name of them, maybe hognose snake?
I'll say this ,they certainly are adaptiable. I would never have thought snakes existed that far north. I'm wondering if their demise in my area is attributed to increased wild hog population that occurred about the same time as this snake was becoming increasingly rare. I know for fact that hogs eat snakes,including venomous types. Whereas a rat snake might hide, slither away or even shinny up a tree,these guys would make themselves conspicuous if disturbed by foraging hogs.
 
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"The other was about the same size,dusty dark,reared the front part of his body well above ground,hissed and spread his body just below the head resembling a Cobra."

Quite a few hognose in N FLA. Totally harmless - will not bite you.
 

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