Arizona Man Kills Record Western Diamondback

[EdleBrock]

How'd you like to wake up with that in your bed roll...on second thought, prolly would have been more pleasant than my ex...third thought, the old man would have been more pleasant also...

 

[manny15]

wow!

i've seen some big timber rattlers but that thing is huge

 

[LESGO54]

holy moly thats a big snake. thanks for killin it

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Barf!!x(

There is no such newspaper in Globe, and "Gazzette" is spelled "Gazette." Also, the asucentral.com web site doesn't exist.

AND...the monster tree behind the dude is not one that would be readily found in Arizona either.

Lastly, the photo was taken with a wide-angle lens with the snake held close to it and away from the man's body so it appears MUCH bigger than it really is. That's how I make 1-lb. bass look they are 10 lbs. ;-)

I also doubt Gobbler's Knob exists.

TONY MANDILE

How To Hunt Coues Deer

 

[Jabali]

Read the authors name (from the Gazzette)

 

[OutdoorWriter]

>Read the authors name (from the
>Gazzette)

Good catch. I missed that part.

TONY MANDILE

How To Hunt Coues Deer

 

[zekers]

That's funny. You watch, this will circulate and come back in a year with someone saying their cousin killed it in the bookcliffs, strip, unit 9, or wherever. Still a big arse snake.

 

[RACKMASTER]

jeeez..every few years this comes around......its fake picture!
snopes has it all!
rm

 

[257Tony]

Gobblers Knob is real, haven't you guys ever seen Groundhog Day?

 

[EdleBrock]

LOL. Fish on !!!

I rarely forward emails like this. I was so intent on the usual reprobates having a field day with Gobbler's Knob that I forgot to think.

The comment about my Ex still stands.

 

[OldJake]

I suppose you all missed the author of the story too!

Mr. Euben Hadd!!!

HaHa! LOL!!!

 

[sageadvice]

I heard that when they cleaned it, they found a fawn in it's belly. ;-) Joey

No way of knowing just how long that pole he's holding the snake with is. But if i had to hold that creepy thing up, it would be a very long pole indeed.

Joey

 

[Wiszard]

Gobblers Knob......that's too funny!

Steve

 

[BigWooley]

Its actually an eastern diamond back, not in arizona obviously, and quite commonly grow to a length of 8 ft. westerns are rare to get 6ft and do not normally get as heavy/fat.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- Abraham Lincoln

 

[doodah]

Another clue...no such department at ASU as "Herpet...ology"

 

[kilowatt]

This SNAKE sure makes the rounds over the last few years. I received this picture a week ago or so and it was killed in TEXAS and before that it was somewhere else. Nothing but a Photoshop with a different STOOGE AND LOCATION.

Brian

 

[NMPaul]

Snake looks alive to me. Dead ones normally are limp.

Also, when you kill one in the field using whatever is at hand they normally are a bloody mess.

 

[sageadvice]

Regardless, photoshop or not, i've been involved with my share of rattlesnakes encounters in my day and don't believe i've ever seen one near that big! Had i to jump over one like that while deer hunting, i'd probably have "loaded" drawers by the time i lit back down!!

Joey

 

[cantkillathing]

It is the same snake in both photo's, isn't it?

 

[OutdoorWriter]

>>It is the same snake in both photo's, isn't it?

Same snake, different dude.

257

Yeah, there's a real Gobbler's Knob, but it's in PA, not AZ.

TONY MANDILE

How To Hunt Coues Deer

 

[Moondog]

Saw that same snake in a black & white photo at least 10 years ago. Different dude holding it then too.

 

[BigWooley]

LAST EDITED ON Jan-07-09 AT 09:49AM (MST)[p]Aint photoshop as to the size of the snake, probably the person though. Easterns get that big.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_diamondback

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- Abraham Lincoln