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Title: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: KYFrid on July 27, 2012, 05:39:45 PM
Guy posted this on facebook. Snake was killed in Glen Jean WV. 
(http://i813.photobucket.com/albums/zz52/rfridley21/319313_398088590250925_965180630_n1.jpg)
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: redarrow on July 27, 2012, 05:46:21 PM
Bag as an Anaconda.Don't think them snake boots would do any good.
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: AU coonhunter on July 27, 2012, 05:48:16 PM
Thats a big one, but I doubt it was killed in West Virginia since it is an Eastern Diamondback.
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: turkey slayer on July 27, 2012, 06:06:43 PM
gotta be fake
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: KYFrid on July 27, 2012, 06:25:25 PM
But it was on facebook. It's gotta be true!  ;D  Thanks Guys!   I know nothing bout them things. Only that they scare the crap outta me!
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: savduck on July 27, 2012, 06:30:26 PM
Not shot in WV. That guys name is Nick Kearns. He played cornerback for Georgia Southern University from about 1998 to 2001. He won two division 2 championship rings with that team. That snake came from his hunting club in Screven county, just outside Newton, GA. It is not fake but rather the zoom on the camera makes it appear to be bigger. It was a monster of an eastern diamond back. That picture is about 7 years old.
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: sippy cup on July 27, 2012, 06:37:28 PM
i would check that out eastern diamond backs are not native to WV thereis timberrattlers easterns are in south Carolina Georgia and Florida
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: Sherrell on July 27, 2012, 07:33:47 PM
Quote from: savduck on July 27, 2012, 06:30:26 PM
Not shot in WV. That guys name is Nick Kearns. He played cornerback for Georgia Southern University from about 1998 to 2001. He won two division 2 championship rings with that team. That snake came from his hunting club in Screven county, just outside Newton, GA. It is not fake but rather the zoom on the camera makes it appear to be bigger. It was a monster of an eastern diamond back. That picture is about 7 years old.


If I'm not mistaken it was in the GON years back.we got some nice un's here in Florida and I've found a many while quail huntin'.that is when we had quail of course.
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: Hognutz on July 27, 2012, 07:49:00 PM
Quote from: stone road turkey calls on July 27, 2012, 06:09:29 PM
The pic is photo shoped, both his hands are at about waist level. his right shoulder should be extended while holding at that level, and that snake would be 10 to 11 ft long. also a eastern doesen't belong in wv. nice try.

Looks like he is using a forked stick or something to hold it up. Not his hands.. Dunno ???
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: stone road turkey calls on July 27, 2012, 08:00:04 PM
your right hognutz, my mistake should have looked closer before i posted sorry. i was bit by a diamond back in 1989 bad, bad, bad.
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: Seth B on July 27, 2012, 08:02:52 PM
I thought it looks like it could be photo shopped aswell. looks like he is holding it close to the camera and far from his body, making it look bigger than it actualy is. Good trick for all you fisherman out there. Thats a big snake any way you look at it.
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: slamman on July 27, 2012, 08:44:35 PM
Quote from: turkey slayer on July 27, 2012, 06:06:43 PM
gotta be fake

I agree.
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: Sherrell on July 27, 2012, 09:05:31 PM
http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=2484&cid=158
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: BP1992 on July 27, 2012, 09:30:26 PM
He was also killed in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and several other states.  That pic has been going around for a while.  It was even in the Georgia Outdoor News magazine (GON).
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: savduck on July 27, 2012, 09:54:28 PM
Quote from: Sherrell on July 27, 2012, 09:05:31 PM
http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=2484&cid=158

there you go Sherrill.
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: barry on July 28, 2012, 12:28:42 PM
Would like to have a couple that big to eat!!!
Title: Re: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: land cruiser on July 28, 2012, 01:24:28 PM
What do they taste like? Chicken? ???
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: Turkey Trot on July 28, 2012, 05:22:26 PM
Del has it right, but it only happened a couple of years ago.  One of the guys present ran a thread on it right after it happened, and people lifted the picture and started circulating it in email.  Then all the LIARS took hold of it and started making up all kinds of stories including lies about where it was killed.

This is a link to the Screven County newspaper that did a story on it 2 years ago.

http://www.sylvaniatelephone.com/news/big-time-snake-grass
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: longspur on July 28, 2012, 09:57:53 PM
Quote from: barry on July 28, 2012, 12:28:42 PM
Would like to have a couple that big to eat!!!
I doubt if it was eaten. Magnificent animal wasted. Guess it made someone feel mocho. sickening.
Title: Re: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: barry on July 29, 2012, 10:33:02 AM
Quote from: land cruiser on July 28, 2012, 01:24:28 PM
What do they taste like? Chicken? ???

No...they taste way better IMO!!!
Prettiest white meat you've ever seen!
Title: Re: BIG Rattler!!
Post by: Turkeykiller12 on August 03, 2012, 06:19:59 PM
There was a story about this snake printed in the GON magazine a year or so ago. I think it really was killed in Georgia.