Oh but I thought everything is bigger in Texas? Lmao na

the eastern diamondbacks are much thicker. than the western rattlers these get up to 9 feet. they are bigger in s c and georgia around the savanna river. they also have fangs aprox teice the legnth and overall size. when these strike if its in the thigh or torso its lights out.

A former neighbor of mine who once lived in a rural Texas town told the story of snake encounters there. “Don’t manage to make eye contact with them, or they won’t let you go. I went inside our house, and a cottonmouth followed and was still looking for me through the sliding doors 🥶.” Oddly enough that couple has since relocated to Florida.

That’s because Eastern Diamondbacks are the largest species of rattlesnake and Texas doesn’t have them. Everything ain’t bigger in Texas.

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maybe he has a big ol' snake in his pants to keep her happy with.

😱Same. I would’ve had a heart attack😱

Snakes can come up toilets too.

😀😁😀😁😀😀😀 I'm dead 😀

​@@jedigamer9935YEP 😮

lol

Nobody blames Trump or white folks for its size? I'm amazed.

@@delmusingle2338 Well let me be the first. It is most definitely the fault of that lying POS aka BUNKERBITCH!! Hope that makes you feel better. HAVE A NICE DAY!! LOL!

@@andrerichardson3150 you got nothing lol

@@andrerichardson3150 how is he racist??

I better get out of here before someone turns me into a pair of boots

@@jasonkimberlin9283 And a belt and hatband.

Snake bit snout

Maybe he stretches a bit like rubber when it is sunny.

I know, right? Plenty of 6 footers down here in Texas and they don't even hit 20 lbs- plus, the reporter casually referred to the Indigo snake is if it was comparible to the Diamondback- what a dork!

100 lbs my (_!_).

steering wheel ?

@@greatplainsman3662 Ha - great emoji.

True

Classic 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hahahaha Clever!

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He was on fire that day

If it had been an "Eye to fang" encounter the story would have a very different outcome! Talk about sensationalism at its finest...Lol!

Yeah but we can radio in and get a bigger 🚢 boat

Farewell and adieu spanish ladies

Picture weighed thirteen and half pounds.

@@davidbrothers2765 farewell adieu to the ladies of spain!

@@aespo05 farewell and adieu fare spanish ladies for we have orders to ship back too Boston and nevermore shall we see you again

Every place is snake country.

Diane Greene - but no snakes at all in Hawaii or Alaska or cold northern areas of other countries .. otherwise wear your boots in the brush , not your tennies .. 😉

@@shiitakestick My husband wore snake chaps.

@@shiitakestick I know the story that St. Francis drove the snakes out of Ireland. I find it impossible to believe that Ireland has not one snake.

Flower8 - live and learn , life is chock full of surprises . 👍🏼

Well think about this. 90% of snake bites in America happen when someone is trying to kill or catch a snake

@@PMurray2694 that’s exactly right. Especially small kids since they aren’t usually looking before they sit reach or step somewhere

@@Rryan8065for sure! Just look at how many snakebite fatalities happen from preachers messing around with rattlesnakes and then refusing antivenin.

@@wolfpecker5710 at least 5, which would make them 100% of the snakebite fatalities each year in the US lol

That's funny!!!

I am from SW Texas. I lived in VA Beach, VA City workers told me of killing a 14 ft diamond as they worked to reclaim part of the Dismal Swamp. Nine of ten Herpetologist state they can not grow over 6 ft. I laugh. I saw a 14 foot diamond back cross a ranch road on October night. In addition I have spoken to several other West Texans who have seen the same; not to mention, many in the 7 - 10 ft range. So watch your step! Thanks for your time. cr

I have seen a 14 footer in SW Texas and spoken to several who also had the same experience. It crossed a dirt road in front of a gate which was 14 ft wide.

Timber rattlesnakes are massive too

nah bro theyre too big for hawks

unless they are young

@Keith Davis I did a little research on this Keith. Apparently Western Diamondbacks frequent that area. I was under the impression Texas on to the West coast. That one had rings around its tail before the rattles. The Eastern will have a patch of solid black or brown before the rattles. I used to live there and hunted the area north of Lakeland called the Green Swamp. I have killed a lot of rattlesnakes there. Chris was born in Bartow, FL in Polk County.

@Keith Davis Thankfully I've never seen one here!! I had a water moccasin here a few days ago. I'm in the Houma area in the slushy swampy sticks and we have a lot of snakes here. I'm going to look up the one you mentioned so I can be familiar with it. 😎

@Keith Davis yes I looked up the eastern one. Thank you for mentioning those places you won't go bc it's helpful to me to know:) There's many places I won't go either. But we go fishing in the marsh in Cocodrie and have to walk through waist high marsh and people say snakes don't go in the salt water areas but that's bs because i've seen one! I don't think it was dangerous but I don't know what kind. They even have alligators down there in saltwater. Are you from down here in this area? Do you know if those areas are dangerous?

@rick miller Yes sir are familiar with them and their toxic venom. I was comparing the Eastern to the Western Diamond back.

@Keith Davis oh yikes!! Thanks for all the info:)

I thought that seemed like a bizarre number when she said that 😅

Yah I would say they more than 50 lbs off

Full grown Diamondback is about 10 lbs

@@kelloggswag There is a recorded example of an eastern diamondback that weighed 34 lb. That one was 7.8 feet long.

Maybe 30 or 35

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Moose knuckle alert. Lolololololololololol

uh ya considering it had clearly just recently eaten an animal.. could easily bump its weight close to 100 lbs.. anacondas can grow up to 500 lbs

No where near 100 lbs!!!!

Mary M dumbass

@@jmoney973 How am i the dumbass you dumbass. go do some research... DUMBASS

@@jimbom6307 They don't weigh near that much the anaconda if I remember in my studies is the heaviest snake in the world&pythons&really long&heavy also I believe the Anaconda is heaviest&Python is2nd heaviest.The Eastern Diamond Back Rattler is the most deadly&largest pit viper in North America&South America the biggest/longest Pit viper is the Bushmaster.

Exactly....but by why allow common sense or genetic limitations get in the way of sensationalizing a story with inconceivable facts while telling a rattlesnake story...

Seriously I laughed so hard r "easily 100 lbs" lmfao I weigh 150 🤣🤣🤣

Not only that but largest snake captured in Florida was a Burmese python at 17 feet and over 160lbs, man says at the end largest snake is 9 ft in Florida anything to make this monster rattler look bigger!

@@theg35project50 Yeah I was like "is that just some random woman in a parking lot saying that" and then it says she works for the wildlife dpt! LOL!!! That's definitely a bureaucrat for you.

100lb rattlesnake lmfaooo what!!!

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Savage

Adrenaline can make you do some outrageous stuff.

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Haha, sad thing is she is from the wildlife services!

haha yeah i couldnt believe it when she said that. i mean come on.

@@slappinshepple That's EXACTLY what I was thinking.

Peitrex or just stay the hell away from it . All it wants to do is be left alone

Jordan Russell. true but think of the kids there little body's can't handle all the venom

where I come from you pull out your 20 gauge and blow it's head off....that thing can and will inject venom in some innocent human somewhere and the human will either die or experience pain beyond belief....there's only one kind of pit viper, a dead pit viper

Jordan Russell I would've ran the bitch over

JC Rivera alot of people are like you for some ignorant reason. My family the same

Don't you read? They do not grow over 6 feet; although, I have seen one 14 ft long. It crossed a dirt road in front of a 14 ft wide gate. Keep posting!

i,ve seen dozens of western diamond backs, gold and green mohaves, sidewinders in the sonoran desert. they are half as long as the eastern diamondback and maybe 1 5th the diameter. the fangs on the eastern diamondbacks are massive. over 4 inches long. grew up in S C near a swamp and lived for 10 years in the desert south of pheonix. both impressive on their own merrits. the snake that wakes you up the most is the side winder they like all the rest will go towards you.

You from goliad?

@@sergio2385 no, but I am from Texas, thus the Dimmitt flag.

Thanks for your reply. I am from SW Texas and have seen a 14 ft Diamond Back, and have spoken to others in the area who have had similar experiences. My Biology professor laughed when I told him about the sighting. He said they do not grow over 6 feet. I believe with advent of the internet sighting across the South are surfacing, so keep posting, and watch your step. cr

Lol. A 15 ft python might push a 100 lbs after a big feeding

That snake was definitely not 15 pounds.... pretty sure it was between 60-100... look at the girth and length... that snake is definitely at least triple it’s normal size

I thinks it’s more like 60-70 pounds

Jaja brain fart

10 lbs?... you sound even more dumb than someone saying 100 lbs..... that snake looks like it just ate.... a 30 lbs snake that eats a 75lbs animal will weight 100+ lbs... but thanks for being the wildlife expert.

That’s exactly what I said! 😂

Closer to 20lbs....if that!

Thats hilarious

Better include self defense as well.

Putin ^^RUSSIAN SPY^^

More like 15 to 20 lb snake.

Maurice Cureton a floridian “expert” no doubt!! 😂🤣😂

She is definitely a wildlife expert???lol? We r full of python's that r way bigger...that was a pretty snake

So many people have an irrational fear of these critters. They aren't really that dangerous if you understand their behavior. They're more afraid of us than the smarter among us are of them. I run across them all the time out here in CaliFORNIA. (Yes, not that many people out here call it Cali. Mostly tourists from Flori.) Yes, they're smaller here, but still scareder of us.

I thought I was the only one lol

Blake Williamson LIES ALLLL LIEESSSSS!!!!

Maximum weight is 34 lbs. So unless you have documentation, I don't believe you.

Keep posting Blake. I have seen a 14 ft Diamond back in SW Texas and have spoken to many who have seen them 8ft plus. thanks cr

Hello Sheila how are you doing today.

Have you seen a rattlesnake/ Burmese python mix? Yup, in Florida too.

😂 bunch where I am

@@judith4505 thats not possible they rattlesnakes are pit vipers and pythons are constrictors and for two different animals to breed they have to be related like milk snakes and king snakes or tigers amd lions

@@okay__. check out national geographic. Video and photo evidence.

@@judith4505 i just looked it up and there was nothing about rattlesnake and python hybrid its literally impossible two whole different animals that arent closely related cant breed so a rattlesnake might be able to breed with a copperhead MIGHT but not any python and rattlesnake they literally teach that stuff in 7th grade plus ive been studying about reptiles in my spare time since i was 5

I know right, lol maybe 15 to 20 lbs if that

I have seen 14 footer close to the Pecos River and spoken to many who have seen similar in the Permian Basin. From 287 I have heard a lore about a large rattler from Vernon area. What do you call a giant?

14 ft is the largest I have seen in SW Texas and spoken to others through out the Permian Basin who have seen 14 footers; not to mention, 8 to 10 footers. Personally I believe these behemoths are through out the South. South Texas seems to consistently have the 6 ft fat class of rattler. Keep truckin, cr

Diamonds can reach 8 feet!

That's because the Eastern Diamondbacks are the granddaddies of 'em all. That one was either full or pregnant though but they're still really gearthy snakes.

I heard a story from Benson of two cowboys killing a 10 footer later they brought it into town. Second a Native American traveling by Window Rock in a Station Wagon ran over a Diamond Back he guessed at 15 ft. They snake kept crawling. Finally I read a story of a photo tacked up in a feed store south of Tucson from 1905 which had a diamond back hanging dead from a windmill. The caption read 18 ft. You need to get out more with snakeboots! cr

It’s not. Eastern diamond backs push 8’

This comment gave me brain aneurysm 😂😂😂

U put it in ur car. Idiot

Rattlesnake tastes amazing.

I you actually went in the woods around creeks and put diesel in a rattle snake whole and light it on fire you will find a lot of snakes.

@@jlpinson6968 the gassing of diamondback rattlesnakes is illegal in 29 States with Texas being one of the only States left that allows gassing of rattlesnake dens. Snakes that are gassed cannot be eaten safely and the amount of damage that occurs from the gas going into the dens is doing a lot of environmental damage to not only the snakes but to the other animals who live in and around these dens. These snakes that we're hibernating in the dens will not be able to go back to them and we'll have to seek a new place to hibernate and live usually that means amongst people.

Krickey! Lets try and make his fangs come aout

Crikey, let me just stick my thumb right in it’s bum hole yeah

@Craig Carper thank you for standing up for snakes: they play a very important role in the environement, as all animals do. They are despised for that ridiculous religious role they played, but its really sad in 2020 people are still ignorant of how important they are.

@@vulturebitch I got a black snake that hangs around by my front door that scares people lol...they say I should kill it, I tell them if you don't like him/her don't come over bc it ain't gonna hurt no one and keeps the critters at bay

@@vulturebitch same goes for sharks, everything has a place in the ecosystem… except for us

I love snakes

@@bigbuckdan73 Black Snakes Matter

I have seen at least five documentary herpetologist from FL who say they do not grow over 6 ft. I have seen 14 ft here in SW Texas and spoken to many in the Permian Basin who have seen similar size, so keep on posting because the knuckle head experts will keep getting it wrong until enough get struck by the truth. cr

Or person.

And that’s true. But they won’t seek you out

Go-karts or Gone Fishin me to hahahaha

Go-karts or Gone Fishin 12 pounds of rattlesnake, 88 pounds of BULLSHIT.

I'm still laughing

This news reporter must be desperate for people to click on it

Dude.... Right.... LOL how about 14lbs MAYBE...

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They’ll show you a display why they’re called Cottonmouths for a reason. Even if one bites you the odds of it killing you are very slim.

Cotton mouths are mean AF. They aren’t necessarily aggressive but they are intimidating. Anytime I see something white in the woods I shoot it out of fear it’s a cotton mouth. I have seen tons and have killed some with guns, sticks, extremely large logs I was carrying in a tractor bucket and diced one up with a disc when it tried to strike at the disc and tires of my tractor. The most memorable is the time I was bush hogging in real thick brush beside our pond and one fell out of a tree I hit and luckily the PTO guard wasn’t chained because it landed on it and was ripped and shredded by the shear power of all 49 PTO horse power on the 52hp Kubota. I actually (the part that scared me the most) got hit with a medium sized (about 6 OZ) chunk from the snake. I’m glad the PTO didn’t have the guard chained and it was running. Cause if that PTO wasn’t running I probably would have turned it on and just threw the snake to the ground for it to sloth away unless I went super fast and hit it. Scary stuff in south Mississippi I tell you

The world record for a cottonmouth was captured back in 1990 in the Great Dismal Swamp North Carolina / Virginia border it measured 74 in long a weight of 11 lb. It died a few days later of injuries sustained in its capture at the Philadelphia Zoo. Only one person has died in the past 52 years from a cottonmouth bite. Gilbert De Leon Was Bitten while walking in a river in Missouri back in 2012 when he was bitten. He refused treatment telling his girlfriend he could not afford to go to the hospital and died in his sleep that night. His autopsy revealed that he had a high amount of pain medication in his system that contributed to his death. C r o f a b anti-venom is the treatment for all North American pit vipers. M i c r u r u s North American coral snake Pfizer Laboratories Anti-Venom is the treatment for all coral snake bites if you have been bitten by a venomous snake seek medical treatment ASAP only one person has died from a coral snake since the late 1960s.

@@richardhincemon9423 I find it hard the the world record is over 6ft and weights only 11lbs. The ones around here are about 4ft average and weigh about 10lbs.

@@CountryboyCale typical cottonmouths grow to 3 to 4 ft in length and weigh three to four pounds. Males are larger than females and the eastern and Florida cottonmouth can reach 6 ft in length but that is very rare due to Habitat destruction.

In the Opt Ala. Roundup there was one recorded 23 lbs.

6-8 pounds? negative.

I laughed so hard when she said it was 100lbs lol. My 10ft reticulated python isnt even 30lbs and hes a little chunky for a reticulated python if I'm being honest. There is no way in hell that any species of snake on earth could weigh 100lbs and only be 6ft long. Those are stupid thick proportions lol. Even the notoriously thick blood pythons aren't THAT heavy at 6ft lol.

@@alexcrowder1673 it’s definitely not 100 lbs but I’d say it not 8lbs either. It’s pushing 20 or 30 I’d say. On a regular day it probably 25lbs but this dude is chunky AF (obviously just ate recently)

The largest Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake ever recorded with 7 ft 9 inches long with a weight of 34 lb. It was shot and killed by a hunter named Rutledge back in 1946 and is still the largest venomous snake ever officially documented by Guinness Book of World Records. There are reports of the bushmaster reaching 12 ft in length and weighing up to 11 lb in Central America they do not get as heavy as the Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake.

also the king snake will eat the indigo. the big rattlers no way

@@georgewilson9121 Eastern Indigo snake Colubridae family of snakes is the largest species of snakes in the United States. They kill by biting other snakes behind the head and overpowering them with brute force. They have no problem eating Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes and King Snakes.

LMAO!

Hello Nunya how are you doing today.

Dear nunya, we need to make it their business that they get that big. I saw a Diamond Back cross a 14 ft wide road in SW Texas in one stretch. Now that was huge. I did not get out in the night for a better look. Keep posting because to many so called experts keep saying they do not grow over 6 ft. cr

I saw a big black snake while on my mower, I stopped. hopped off and hauled my ass one way and he hauled the other,!!!!

More like someone needs to lay-off the meth or moonshine.

She is not exaggerating. The one my daughter and I saw was just as large and long as that one. It was crossing the road & look as if it had just eaten a cow. Very large & long. I had never seen anything like that b4.

No you haven’t. 😆 jk

@@Mico8791 Ha ! You don't believe that one huh ? Well then , how about , " Bigger than most , smaller than some ? No? Not going for that one either ? Well I tried ! Ha ! ' Have a good one .

A 9 footer eastern would be a record wouldn't it ??? I once saw (1982) an old polaroid picture on the wall of the office of a pulp mill, miles and miles out into the Alabama swamps... It was of one of their truck drivers, a black man, holding a dead Eastern Diamondback he'd killed. I talked to other drivers who knew and worked with him. They all agreed he was six feet one tall... He had the snake by the middle and draped over each side of his arms/hands... He was standing and the head was down against the the outside of his left boot ... Not in front of his boot, I know the old "hold it closer to the camera to distort perception of size" trick... and this was not happening in this pic... but it's head was leaning on the side of the boot, over the laces. It dwarfed his boot. The tail on the other side of his body was on the ground with all the rattles and a bit of the tail laying on the ground... with the end of the rattles curling up a little into the air... He was cupping the center of the snake in both hands, and almost tight up under his chin, with just an inch or so of his neck showing. You could tell he had his upper body shifted, leaning back a little for balancing the weight of the snake. The old photo had "Snake is 9 feet 8 inches and driver is six feet one inch" written on it. I had no camera back then and the only copier the pulp mill office had was an old pice of junk that could barely copy. I got a couple B&W pictures but they were very poor quality. I begged to borrow or buy the pic. I am sure that had to be well over the size record for any known rattlesnake. It had been a 45 minute drive out on bad roads through the swamp to get there. I had flown in to Mobile to visit my brother and had no car or I'd have gone back with a good camera to get a good picture of that picture... I still think about it to this day... The driver had come up on the snake in the road and used his axe handle he used to check tire pressure on his truck tires to kill it. Here's an interesting and funny part to the story. There was a little community of black/creole families living by the pulp mill. They threw a big celebration, like a mini Mardi-Gras over the dead snake. The pulp mill owner told me these folks were very very superstitious and believed in old magic, curses, potions and such. The reason for the big celebration was they considered killing that snake was like killing the Devil himself ... lol .. This story is the God's truth and not exaggerated one bit ... no BS ... If you doubt me, go check out a few of my vids ... I am a solid straight up guy ...

pestleman1951 hi bro i got a pic from a friend in mexico this snake is like 11 to 12 ft long no kidding send me ur email I'll send it right away bro

Bob Gardner i

Bob Gardner I totally agree with you on this and they had camera's in their hands but only them few photos and pictures have been tampered with

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