114lb RATTLESNAKE!!!

[SonnieP]

OH MY!

From Clay County, Alabama...

 

[BB_TX]

I saw that somewhere a while back. But the story that went with it said it is a illusion. It is held close to the camera on a long stick to make it look much larger. Probably no more than a normal size rattler.

 

[beenthere]

Agree one wouldn't have the strength to hold one on a snake stick that far out. Probably in the 20-25# range at best, IMO. That snake catcher stick is hollow with a rod down the center, not of a design to hold 114# out at the end like that, let alone the muscles needed of the guy holding the snake stick. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Big snake though. Should be a lot of eating.

 

[SonnieP]

Pretty good camera trick for such a poor quality picture.

My aunt claimed they just found this rattler 2 weeks ago. Who knows... could be one of those that's been around the block for years.

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It is held close to the camera on a long stick to make it look much larger. )</font>

Isn't it standard practice to do that with the fish you catch? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[mathey]

Snopes

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( (It is held close to the camera on a long stick to make it look much larger. )

Isn't it standard practice to do that with the fish you catch? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )</font>

I saw a guy in a blue boat try that trick, but he needed a 50 ft long stick to make his fish look big. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

Yeah, and the boat wasn't big enough to carry even a short stick. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[GeneD14]

The guy in the " CAT " hat looks meaner then the snake! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[SonnieP]

Amazing... 11lb rattler claimed to be 114! Sounds like someone just wanted to add a number to the end of the 11.

I sent that link to my dad to send to my aunt. It figures.

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue"> Isn't it standard practice to do that with the fish you catch? </font>

Fisherman's Prayer:

Lord, please grant that I may catch a fish so large, that when telling about it afterward, I won't have to lie. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Jeff396]

Somebody did a pretty poor job of adding a shadow behind the snake with a computer too.

Jeff

 

[DmansPadge]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( The guy in the " CAT " hat looks meaner then the snake! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

My thoughts exactly! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[mdbarb]

My thoughts also. holding anything 100# out on a stick would show some strain.
Personally I wouldnt hold that out on a stck much shorter than a fifty yard head start!

 

[J_J]

That is a trick. Look at the shadow on the snake, and observe no shadow on the feet of the people.

 

[CFHartman]

That snake is growing fast. It was cought in Clay county West Virginia about two months ago by the same three men. then it only weight 96 lb.

 

[hobbyfarm]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( 114lb RATTLESNAKE!!!)</font>

That sounds like my lawyer! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[hobbyfarm]

BTW,
In TEXAS, that's a teenager! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

We've got some REAL granddaddies around here! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[hobbyfarm]

A few years ago, here in Pharr, TEXAS, one of the men who travels to the ranches and oil fields to do the heavy equipment tire repairs out in the western part of the county and in the eastern part of Starr county he came back with a HUGE snake. He trapped it live from from a small farming/ranching community called <font color="red">Rincon, TEXAS</font>.
This area is known for it's large rattlers and larger yet, TEXAS Indigo snakes (the indigo snake's primary food is rattlesnakes).

I never saw the live snake, but he mounted the skin on a 12' 1"X12", and it had about 8" of hide hanging off EACH END! Along the mid-section it was wider than the 1x12. It was hanging above the counter at the Hub-City Tire Store in Pharr.

Quite a conversation piece!

That, folks is a SNAKE! This snake was a local celebrity.
/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Bird]

I'm not sure how long they are, but each of those two glass topped display cases between my wife and those chairs contains one, stretched out, mounted rattlesnake. They're in the Buckhorn Saloon and Museum in San Antonio.