Friend found this in his yard last week, blackest rattlesnake I've ever seen, not even a sign of marking on it's back.
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/barry61/IMG_8412_1_1.jpg)
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/barry61/IMG_8414_2_1.jpg)
wow :fud:
Thats pretty cool he should mount that bad boy.
Thats neat!
I ain't much on snakes but I'd probably have caught that one.
i would have him in a cage
OMG. I thought it was gonna be a post about Obama. :o
I hate snakes :icon_thumright:
Quote from: redarrow on July 07, 2012, 04:16:25 PM
OMG. I thought it was gonna be a post about Obama. :o
I was thinking that as I posted this.
wow nice sure looks like a timber rattler to me.
That looks like a good'un. I've never seen that before. I did kill a copperhead that was as dark as a cotton mouth this year during turkey season. If not for the hour glass pattern on his back you would have thought cotton mouth.
Quote from: redarrow on July 07, 2012, 04:16:25 PM
OMG. I thought it was gonna be a post about Obama. :o
Me too!!!! :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
That's my favorite kind of snake...dead.
He might want to keep that in a freezer and have some kind of snake expert have a look at it , could be a rare color phase
looks half way between a cotton mouth and a rattler
I don't like snakes either but.... That is cool !
pretty neat. Ive never seen anything like that.
that gives me the creeps just looking at the pics!!!
we get alot of them here in western VA mostly high on mountains tops were its cooler and they get more yellow as you move down mountains to warmer low lands
New to me.
Wow, a melanistic rattlesnake! I didn't know reptiles could be melanistic until I just Google'd it..Very interesting..
Quote from: deerhunt1988 on July 08, 2012, 12:46:07 AM
Wow, a melanistic rattlesnake! I didn't know reptiles could be melanistic until I just Google'd it..Very interesting..
melanistic is a Dark coloration of the skin, hair, fur, or feathers because of a high concentration of melanin.
Quote from: Old Gobbler on July 07, 2012, 08:24:21 PM
He might want to keep that in a freezer and have some kind of snake expert have a look at it , could be a rare color phase
looks half way between a cotton mouth and a rattler
I agree.
That beats anything I have ever saw.
Rattlesnakes are on the endangered list here in Va. & therefore unlawful to kill ! Just a headsup ! :icon_thumright:
Quote from: vaturkey on July 08, 2012, 09:42:17 PM
Rattlesnakes are on the endangered list here in Va. & therefore unlawful to kill ! Just a headsup ! :icon_thumright:
Yea what he said but still cool ;D
Nice looking snake (if you like sankes).
Quote from: vaturkey on July 08, 2012, 09:42:17 PM
Rattlesnakes are on the endangered list here in Va. & therefore unlawful to kill ! Just a headsup ! :icon_thumright:
Correction...it was found dead
Thats pretty cool. I have never seen one like that.
Cool looking rattleri'd be skinning him and slapping him on a board
Ive killed a lot of rattlers, never seen one that dark.
Congrats to your friend, he "found" him a nice one...
Thanks for sharing with us Barry.
HC
Thats crazy
Pictured is a "black phase" timber rattler, Crotalus horridus which has sadly been removed from the ecosystem. The preponderance of scientific data supports the significant role and importance of all snakes in the wild, poisonous and nonpoisonous alike. It's sad that some purported "sportsmen" feel the need to eliminate every poisonous snake they encounter, regardless of the threat posed or relocation possibilities due primarily to unfounded personal phobias.