Rattler

the biggest one i ever caught was 6"8". not near that big .that thing is huge.id catch that sucker and take it home.

I've had 2 memborable rattler experiences(lots more but not memborable)

One, I was squirrel hunting and had climbed over a fence--was jumping down from the top and looked down where I was landing-----there was one all curled up and objecting to me but my altitude won out over his upwards strike , and I landed on him and the next landing was about 30 feet away---

The other one was while in the Army, doing some unnamed stuff that didn't happen, and one close to the size of this one objected to me and this old ranger that I was with---the farm boy (me) with my forked snake stick, and the rangers machie?(corn knife to us farm boys) chopped off his head about 2 feet back---and we ate him--think about 50-60 guys had some tastes a lot like chicken(but a little drier) he had 18 rattles and a button where some had worn off---

when we first moved here my husband was dumping the old ashes out of our grill. all of a sudden he comes running into the house and opens up the gun cabinet and pulls out a rifle. he grabs some snake shot and runs back outside. i jump up to follow him to find out what the problem was. he was running to out back fence and all he kept saying was SNAKE! SNAKE!. i ask him not to shoot our fence up. so i go to the fence and there was a rather large black snake with his head poking out looking at us. I told my son to go get a tape measure while i reached in and grabbed the snake to work it out of the fence. when i got it out we measured it at 5 1/2 feet long. i was teaching my kids about how good snakes are in the food chain and how to tell a posionous snake from a non- posionus snake. while i was holding the snake by its tail in the middle of my nature lesson my husband walked up to the snake and blew the head off. scared the bejesus out of me. i cussed him pretty good. he then tells me and the kids that the only good snake is a dead snake. my oldest thought that his dad had gone nuts but my youngest thought that his dad is now a super hero. we get lots of snakes here. mostly black and garters but about once a year we get a copperhead. i have not problems with them and my hubby has learned not to loose his mind when he comes across one. my grandfather taught me a long time ago that the only animal i have to fear is the 2 legged kind.

Shine this snake came from Coleman. How far are you from there.

coleman is farther west than me. i'm east of stephenville , coleman is west. rare to come across the big ones. they got big staying on the bigger ranches. hogs love them . but then one could be living here on my place and i just have not run across him.