LarryK
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Texas size rattler
Everything is BIGGER in TEXAS, right?
Then guess what was found just south of Canton TX Near a new KB homes subdivision.
A 7 1/2 foot Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake
SO - this critter didn't get that big just eatin a mouse now and then...more like a dog size meal!
[Edited on 8-22-2010 by LarryK]
[Edited on 8-22-2010 by LarryK]
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Damn where is that picture.
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http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/15ftrattler.asp
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LarryK
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Thanks Dennis, the pictures would not transfer.
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Holy Cow...That sucker is enormous!
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7.3 feet- the angle it was being held up to the camera lens made it look longer. The snopes link was great.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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Hope somebody ate it! That's a lot of good meat.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cardon Man
Hope somebody ate it! That's a lot of good meat. |
Taste just like chicken,
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Taste just like chicken, |
Everything tastes like chicken. Even gulf shrimp will start tasting like chicken after they soak them in broth to get rid of the oil taste.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Taste just like chicken, |
It tastes nothing like chicken to me. More like reptile. Damn fine food though. If I kill one near my home we always eat it and dry the skin in the
sun with salt.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Taste just like chicken, |
Everything tastes like chicken. Even gulf shrimp will start tasting like chicken after they soak them in broth to get rid of the oil taste. |
Thats too funny!
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EASTERN diamondback in Texas
These stout-bodied pit vipers generally live in the dry, pine flatwoods, sandy woodlands, and coastal scrub habitats from southern North Carolina to
Florida and west to Louisiana.
Bob Durrell
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