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Oldwagon
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What kind of snake is that? Todd
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Skin it, lay it out, layer it.... slab it with some acrylic stuff and turn it into blanks.
el_d
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Oh Dang!!! Thats a BIG diamondback. I wouldnt try killing that with a stick.......
tim self
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Well, duh. It's a BIG UN! Actually Diamondback. Didn't say how many rattlers it has. I have a 4' + in the freezer and it's 8" wide. I can only imagine how flat this one lays.
From Encarta:
Rattlesnakes vary widely in size. The pygmy rattlesnake rarely reaches 0.6 m (2 ft) in length and 113 g (4 oz) in weight. The largest rattlesnake is the eastern diamondback, which can grow to just under 2.5 m (8 ft) and weigh 9 kg (20 lb).
From Snopes:
inaccurate or exaggerated
Rattlesnakes vary widely in size. The pygmy rattlesnake rarely reaches 0.6 m (2 ft) in length and 113 g (4 oz) in weight. The largest rattlesnake is the eastern diamondback, which can grow to just under 2.5 m (8 ft) and weigh 9 kg (20 lb).
From Snopes:
inaccurate or exaggerated
Daniel
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That thar must be the Pygmy rattlers Daddy. It's a monster.
PenTurnerfromMaine
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Not a bad photoshop, but definitely not right either
SnowLeopard_2001
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Back when I took a photography class in the 1970's, the instructor suggested the following trick. When you took a picture of a kid's first fish, have the kid hold the fish at arm length toward the camera. Then the fish will always appear to be the size that the kid remembers.
Objects closer to the camera appear to be bigger than those farther away. If you look at the picture, the snake is being held with a catch stick toward the camera with the guy holding him maybe 3 feet behind the snake.
I don't think the photo has been photoshoped, just the dimensions. If the snake was 89 pounds, I think the catch stick would have had more of a bend and the guy would have had a hard time holding it up in that position.
Tim,
If that snake was collected today, your friend was quail hunting out of season. The quail season in Oklahoma runs from Nov. 14th thru Feb. 15th.
Rollerbob
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Tim, that kinda story belongs in Texas!!:wink:
chriselle
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Either that dude is amazingly strong or the laws of physics have changed............that picture is SHOPPED!!
workinforwood
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Regardless whether the snake is real or whatever, that snake wouldn't make very good pens. The larger the snake, the larger the scale patterns, which means the patterns wouldn't even fit on a pen blank making the pen rather blah to look at.
bitshird
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Thanks Jeff.just what I wanted to hear I have a 4 1/2 foot copperhead in the freezer waiting for it to warm and dry up enough to thaw it and skin it.
TellicoTurning
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If I put a 4 1/2 foot snake in my freezer one two things would happen.. I would get whomped alongside the head with a frozen snake.:biggrin::biggrin:... or more likely, the wife would thinks is a length of Kielbasa and chop it up and serve it to me with peppers and onions over spaghetti :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
artme
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I have finally seen a picture of an American snake that impresses me!!!:tongue::tongue: