[ArkansasTraveler]

Originally Posted by riverbottomkidok

This was caught near Oktaha on October 15, 2009 at 8:58 a.m.

It weighed 89 pounds and was 8 feet long.

What would you do? Personally I would wet myself and run, but that's just me. LOL!

What would you do if you come across an 89 lb. rattler?

Custom made boots anyone?

That be a mid size one - the biggest one I have seen was in the Saline River bottoms - tail was in the ditch and the head was across the middle of the road. Looked like a log in the road - a moving log..

[mkfarnam]

For 36yr's I lived in the Mojave Dessert in So,Cali. and never came across a rattle snake the whole time I lived there. I moved to OK. in "07" and find a rattler stuck to a glue board in my kitchen cupboard.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by ArkansasTraveler

What would you do if you come across an 89 lb. rattler?

Custom made boots anyone?

That be a mid size one - the biggest one I have seen was in the Saline River bottoms - tail was in the ditch and the head was across the middle of the road. Looked like a log in the road - a moving log..

Holy S**T! what did you do with it? or should I say, what didn't you do!?

[debey]

I hate snakes. (that's all)

[stillkit]

Late one night, back in the 70's, I encountered a snake crawling across I-20 just east of Calhoun, LA. When I approached, it doubled back alongside itself and headed for the shoulder of the highway.

It's head passed the tail at the outer edge of the paved shoulder, while the crook in it's back was at the fog line. In other words, that snake was TWICE the width of the highway shoulder and I could park an 8ft wide truck there. That meant it was AT LEAST 16 ft. long! I believe that had I not had my seat belt on, I might have jumped out of the truck.

I yelled on the CB to the traffic behind me to look at it, but nobody saw it. Finally, a guy claiming to live Calhoun said he didn't see it, but had walked up on similar sized snakes out the local piney woods. I asked him what kind it probably was and he responded, "Most likely a rattlesnake."

Well, I sorta blew that off...until a couple of weeks later I saw a picture in the paper of a Diamondback rattler killed by a 10 year old kid in the East Texas piney woods which was 18 ft long. It took five grown men to hold it stretched out for the photo.

Think about that: A snake normally can't hit you from anything over half it's body length. That monster could bite you from NINE FEET AWAY!

You'd never see it.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by stillkit

Late one night, back in the 70's, I encountered a snake crawling across I-20 just east of Calhoun, LA. When I approached, it doubled back alongside itself and headed for the shoulder of the highway.

It's head passed the tail at the outer edge of the paved shoulder, while the crook in it's back was at the fog line. In other words, that snake was TWICE the width of the highway shoulder and I could park an 8ft wide truck there. That meant it was AT LEAST 16 ft. long! I believe that had I not had my seat belt on, I might have jumped out of the truck.

I yelled on the CB to the traffic behind me to look at it, but nobody saw it. Finally, a guy claiming to live Calhoun said he didn't see it, but had walked up on similar sized snakes out the local piney woods. I asked him what kind it probably was and he responded, "Most likely a rattlesnake."

Well, I sorta blew that off...until a couple of weeks later I saw a picture in the paper of a Diamondback rattler killed by a 10 year old kid in the East Texas piney woods which was 18 ft long. It took five grown men to hold it stretched out for the photo.

Think about that: A snake normally can't hit you from anything over half it's body length. That monster could bite you from NINE FEET AWAY!

.

Well, that's a relief.

[mkfarnam]

[ArkansasTraveler]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

Holy S**T! what did you do with it? or should I say, what didn't you do!?

That be pope poop - I stayed in the car as that was not the part that concerned us. A four door car was passing us that drove right across in front of us almost causing a collision - right on out onto the shoulder. Grass was about wheel high where it stopped, all four doors flew open and four black men with pistols jumped out running across the road in front of us into the weeds on the left side of the road.

[Crosstimbers Okie]

I first saw that photo 2 or 3 years ago when someone e-mailed it to me. It may have been October 15th, but it wasn't 2009.

I would kill it. They taste like chicken...

[Robhu]

I probably wouldn't need any Ex-Lax for a couple days.