This one has been around....
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And this one....
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_ezPcHKrXS...an+rattler.jpg
Last edited by Calibogue; 09-01-2015 at 09:12 AM.
\"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop dead frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.\" <br />D.H. LAWRENCE
Last edited by marsh chicken; 09-01-2015 at 09:17 AM.
Them snake boots wouldn't have done no good with him.
Last one I saw was in Moncks Corner about 20 years ago on a dog drive. Solid 5 1/2' snake. Still the biggest rattler I've seen to date in the wild. It eased on past me across the logging road while I was sitting on my dove stool, and I just sat there amazed. It paid me no mind, so I just watched it go. Can't say I've seen another EDB since.
I killed this one in 1981 on Little Edisto Island while shooting doves - by what was then a freshwater marsh pond just on the west side of Hwy 174 (by Russell Creek). In retrospect, not proud of it. But it was a hoss. I'm 6' 1" for scale.
"Only accurate rifles are interesting " - Col. Townsend Whelen
Dayum what a snake. I bet that one could break a 2x4 clean in half. Impressive creatures no doubt. I talked with an old timer who ran his rabbit beagles in Georgia in warm weather and asked him if he lost any to snakebites. He said they gave them some sort of preventive shot for it but if struck by a diamondback the result was almost always death.
What about that one pernells daughter posed with a few years back? That one was HUGE!
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