Uninvited guest while hunting

RELH · Jan 23, 2014

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How would like to be sitting in a blind hunting pigs with your son when this univited guest pokes his head inside of your blind. 8.5 feet long, 22 rattles, head 5 inches wide and fangs 2.5 inches long.
The son shot the snake in the head with his 22 cal. pistol.

Sorry guys, for some reason the photo would not upload

RELH

buttshot · Jan 23, 2014

This post is worthless without pictures

plick

eelgrass · Jan 23, 2014

He could have just tasered the snake?

J/K!!!

That would end my pig hunting career, at least from a blind.

Eel

eelgrass · Jan 23, 2014

Is this the one? The story sounds the same.

feddoc · Jan 23, 2014

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The story seems to vary just a bit as to location. But the snake is a huge one.

http://www.outdooroddities.com/2013/04/23/huge-rattlesnake-in-midway-texas/ (same pic, but this one is 9'6")

http://gjhunting.forumotion.com/t1043-9-foot-3-inch-eastern-diamond-back-rattle-snake

I think rattlesnake roundups would be fun to watch.

RELH · Jan 23, 2014

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Eel that is the photo. My hunting partner's son sent it to me by email. He got it off of another hunting site. I would have preferred a shotgun to kill that monster instead of a 22lr pistol. The story was very liberal on the amount of rattles at 22, I count 13 and a button.

RELH

Do you relize how many knife sheaths I could make from that skin. Opps, I forgot CA. will not allow me to use protected rattlesnake's skin for knife sheaths anymore.

kilowatt · Jan 23, 2014

Cut the skin in thirds and send each one of "our" dear sweet ladies a piece and tell them it is for doing such a good job for us......yuck!

Brian
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mtmuley · Jan 23, 2014

So was it Texas or Georgia? Sounds fake. mtmuley

slickrock · Jan 23, 2014

I was going to call B/S on this one.. but after looking up stuff on the intertube this just might be possible. Eastern Diamond Back rattlers can get huge. THANKS RELH for the nightmares.

Slick

"The Road goes on forever & the Party never Ends"

rutnbuck · Jan 23, 2014

Wow Wonder what oldbuzztail has to say about this.

Thanks for sharing!!

Rutnbuck

whiskeybent · Jan 24, 2014

Geezus! No way I could pull myself together and shoot it in the head. I'd probably just curl up in the fetal position and wait for it to swallow me whole!

feddoc · Jan 24, 2014

I never did measure this one. There's about a foot of him on the ground. Shot him once as he coiled; the second exit hole is where a bunny popped out.

My neighbor and I were walking back to camp and he stepped over a log...but the log moved.

Tristate · Jan 25, 2014

The snake has 13 rattles.

Trix4me · Jan 25, 2014

I would have called BS up until last weekend. While in TX I saw the skin of a buzztail nailed to a 2 X 8 that was close to 8 ft long. It was killed 2 summers ago. The rancher said he had seen a couple others that size.