Longest Coral Snake I've Seen...

[paco]

How did you get him to stay still while you measured him?

20ga took care of that

[bowhuntertex]

That thing is huge.

[mzurovec]

Jeez! That looks like a high fenced product.

[Gerald G]

20ga took care of that

You could have just stepped on his head and saved that high priced ammo.

[Goodfellah]

I’ve probably seen 10 or so in my life, that is the biggest by far.

[Passthrough]

Red touch yella….

[paco]

One happy Mom with her baby boy...

[paco]

You could have just stepped on his head and saved that high priced ammo.

He could have but, what's done is done. A coral I'll just grab up by hand, ziploc it and toss it in the freezer. I've gotten one 48in rattlebug that way. All the others I use the snake grabbers

[okrattler]

47 3/4" is the longest Texas Coral Snake on record. I don't know what county it was found in though. The two biggest Western Diamondbacks on record were both found in Dallas County.

I can't believe that shotgun didn't blow its head clean off. That's also pretty wild.

[RifleBowPistol]

I've lived in texas my entire life(41 years), grew up on a ranch and have spent tons of time outdoors and I've still never seen a coral snake.

I am in the same boat. The only one I have ever seen in the wild, my step father shot one with his 12 ga., only to find out it had been dead for a while, it was stiff.
To this day, I have never seen one live anywhere other than at a zoo. That was the case for copperheads also, till four years ago, now we find those regularly.

[ByronB]

I killed one twice as long as that.....but I do not have any pics. Ha Ha. That’s a big coral snake you ran across. Have not seen one since I was in my early teens.

[sasqy]

Haven’t seen one in 40 yrs !
They say they are thick up at PK lake

[MASTERS]

I am in the same boat. The only one I have ever seen in the wild, my step father shot one with his 12 ga., only to find out it had been dead for a while, it was stiff.
To this day, I have never seen one live anywhere other than at a zoo. That was the case for copperheads also, till four years ago, now we find those regularly.

I know of an area on the San Antone that produces big ones every year.

[3DW5]

Poor little fellas…

[dustoffer]

Largest I've seen was 31.5" w/o the head