[JoeProBono]

[alaskanfan]

That would make a bunch of hatbands.

[OldDeckHand]

Good gravy that things enormous. I wonder how much venom those fangs could pump into a victim. I’m assuming it would be exponentially more dangerous than your normal 3-5 footer.

[musicman]

bookmark!!

[NRA2BFree]

Holy smoke, that’s a huge snake. It’s not only long but it’s fat too. I’ve killed several rattlers at my house but never one like that. I use a 410 to kill them, but I think it would take a 12 ga to kill that thing.

[familyop]

A mower hit one that that was about 7 ft. long on my school playground, when I was a kid. It was a diamondback but in southeast TX. ...didn’t know that there were subtypes (”eastern,” etc.). We were very accustomed to seeing snakes.

[Liberty Valance]

A big rattlesnake calls for a big firearm.

[Candor7]

Aussie Sized Snake Ping!

[OBXWanderer]

State Road 16 and Interstate 95

Geesh, I just stayed in a motel at that intersection this past weekend. Right near the outlet malls.......wow....however, it was not a Holiday Inn Express.....(the other HI)

[NRA2BFree]

Look at the size of his fangs! They could go right through a small child's arm. Incredible!

[txhurl]

I ran up against one just like this, I was remodeling an old farm house, he kinda went at me, (I didn’t know what it was, it was pitch black), I went to the bathroom, came back, saw him doubled up, got a nearby shovel to do him in.

We were both too sleepy to take each other out. But that’s what size he was.

[Born to Conserve]

I’ve always wondered about these claims of “biggest”. When I was camping in NE Pennsylvania we saw a rattler that was way bigger than the 7’2” “record” . It was big enough that we figured it was eating the beavers — it looked like it had eaten a kid. We saw a lot of timberr rattlers up there, and it was “open season” when we kids found one, but I’ll always remember the reaction of the dads to this one — they wouldn’t let us within 30 ft of this one, and the top of that hill was off limits after that — through the next year!

I remember imagining an 8’x4’ sheet of plywood, and this thing was longer by at least a foot.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Right down the road from here! There is some prime habitat around here that is being cleared, the big ones have got to go somewhere.

I would have prefered to see this one go to the gator farm alive.

[SIDENET]

7-Foot-3 Rattlesnake Caught, Killed

RIP.

[databoss]

looks like the rattlers are beefing up to take on the pythons...

Rummmble!!!

[Non-Sequitur]

Between 20 foot pythons and 7 foot rettlers I’m never going to get my wife to set foot near Florida.

[paulycy]

[Daffynition]

Whachewgonnado?

[rrrod]

Thats a tall Democrat!

[Guenevere]

St.Augustine!!!!!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I’ve seen some huge snakes in West Texas, but I’ve never seen one that big....holy cow!