Man - he’s gotta he almost 7’. Biggest one I killed was almost 6’. Fat girth, sitting in palmettos - big a pine tree branch. I got another on the water abt 4ft up on Lake George. However, the real meanies are the little rattlers!
I killed a five footer swimming across a canal in FL back in ‘80
Civilization on one side of the canal, Everglades on the other. I wasn’t much into having him on my side.
Someone brought a 7 footer to a skinning night at scout camp one summer in FL. The head was as big as my fist.