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How big would a rattlesnake have to be to be record sized?
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Originally posted by twosixteens View PostJust curious did your buddy catch it bare handed? Them suckers are STRONG when they get big.
You really have to have ahold when you commit to pinning the head down on a snake that big. They can twist around in your hand or drop a fang over their bottom lip and snag you once they go to thrashing around. Picking those like that up is dangerous business.Last edited by okrattler; 05-13-2022, 04:00 PM.
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Originally posted by okrattler View PostEven a 4 1/4 or 5 footer will surprise you. They're solid muscle. Trying to straighten one out and measure it is hard to do. It's like trying measure a coiled spring.
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Originally posted by Randy View PostWhen I was a kid we'd ride around at night and pick them up off the road. We'd sell them to folks at the rattlesnake roundup. Was pretty good money for a hs kid.
http://www.rattlesnakeroundup.net/snake-hunters.html
Just funning with ya Randy.
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Originally posted by Geezy Rider View PostYep. When measuring five and six footers we would use four people to hold them and massage them to get their length.
The problem is most places offering cash for snakes want them live I would think. So lets say you measure a snake and it's 5 inches shy of what they need in order to cough up the money. In reality that snake probably is exactly that length but there's no way to get it stretched to maximum capacity without hurting or killing your valuable rattlesnake. I wonder if the place offering a cash reward would take that into account?
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I know my uncle killed a 7 footer, it was wrapped around the legs of ladder for his deer blind, one morning, when he was climbing out of the blind.
I have seen two that I am sure would get to 7 ft., possibly over. Neither hung around for me to find out how big they were. I tried to kill both, did not get either one. One was outside of Coleman, the other was outside of Encinal.
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Originally posted by RifleBowPistol View PostI know my uncle killed a 7 footer, it was wrapped around the legs of ladder for his deer blind, one morning, when he was climbing out of the blind.
I have seen two that I am sure would get to 7 ft., possibly over. Neither hung around for me to find out how big they were. I tried to kill both, did not get either one. One was outside of Coleman, the other was outside of Encinal.
My dad grew up in the hills of Oklahoma and had to learn how to hunt at an early age in order to survive. He would occasionally mention how him and his brother would often watch for snake trails in the sandy clay soil where an oil pipeline was buried. There was one he said, that was as wide as a truck tire. They searched the area over and over but never found it. It was mentioned how they figured it must’ve been a very old snake to get that big around.
During one of his hunting trips he brought along a dog that he had trained. Dad told how the dog definitely saved his life because there was a rattlesnake well camouflaged in the path dad was walking towards. The dog spotted it and took the snake bite that most likely would’ve killed my dad that day. About four years ago dad passed away after battling dementia. Thankful for the hunting stories he shared when he was still in good health.
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Originally posted by okrattler View PostYeah you gotta have a few folks on them to get them straightened out. But I suppose even then you'd get a more accurate measurement once the snake is dead and every muscle is relaxed. I haven't actually ever done that just to see how much longer a rattlesnake is when it's completely relaxed.
The problem is most places offering cash for snakes want them live I would think. So lets say you measure a snake and it's 5 inches shy of what they need in order to cough up the money. In reality that snake probably is exactly that length but there's no way to get it stretched to maximum capacity without hurting or killing your valuable rattlesnake. I wonder if the place offering a cash reward would take that into account?
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Originally posted by SaltwaterSlick View PostRusty, post that pic of you holdin' him up! Sucker looks 9 foot... (well until you find out that you're only 5 foot...
AINT NO PHOTOSHOP HERE FELLAS
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