oh that's NASTY! You folks in MO love your snakes don't you? Jayme was a counselor at a GS camp there a few years ago and learned how to kill copperheads! UGH!

Holy Moly! When I opened your post my all I could say was OMG! DH even ran in to see. Now heÂs emailing it to his friend. I wouldnÂt want to find that in my yard! TFS.

Nina

Yep, I will stick with the copperheads here in Tennessee thank you!

Rebecca

Looks like he had dinner pretty often cause he ant skinny!!
betty

ooooooo, gives me the shivers!!! I hate garder snakes and run like crazy..I don't know what I'd do if I saw that in my yard...but hubby would need a pretty tall ladder to get me down! lol.
Glad they caught it before it bit someone!
Lynn in PA

That's freaking huge! You sure it didn't relocate from Texas? :D

OMG!!!! where are you?? (note to self...... NEVER GO THERE!!)

Our snakes get probably 3ft long MAX and none are poisonous. I cannot imagine the possibility of running into something like that..... YIKES!!

Great picture though.

Faye

I haven't even seen a snake in 15 years! Ditto Faye's note to self.

Actually, someone sent me another pic of the same thing and it DID originate in Texas!! I only passed along info I was given,,,but wherever its from its still a whopper!!!

If I ran into that in my yard, I would have heart failure. A neighbor of mine, saw a snake in her garage once years ago and swears it was responsible for sending her into premature labor.

Words fail me! I didn't know they could get that big. There is a sign beside the road near our house (San Diego, CA, area, about 8 miles from Mexico) that says, "Watch for rattlesnakes," but I've never seen one, and I imagine if I did it would be only a few feet long and not in our yard... I hope. The black widow spiders are enough!

OT, yes, I suppose, but really, there is an interesting
"pattern" on the snake's back, and its irregularities put me in mind of the way a sewing machine sometimes skews or elongates a fancy stitch. lol

That is one BAS. (Big a$$ Snake!)

I live in San Diego and last year I saw a snake in the road outside my house and pulled over to see it up close -- sure enough, it was a rattler -- but more like 3 - 4' long. That bad boy could've eaten it alive.

I don't know about elsewhere but out here they have shots for pets to help them live if a rattler bites them, and "rattler aversion" classes for dogs! I used to let my dogs loose in the brush but not this time of year.

OH MY HEAVENLY DAYS!!!

That looks big enough to eat my horse!

My Dad use to capture rattle snakes and keep them in glass cages.

To this day I don't know why.

His largest was about 7 1/2 feet long.

He keep them in his garage. There is no way I would open that garage door.

I'm terrified of the little monsters.

When my husband and I first married, we bought an old home in the country. We were there for a while when I found a Chicken Snake in my kitchen.

I didn't go home again until my DH brought the dead body to show me he had killed it.

He laughed because "it was only a chicken snake,it wouldn't hurt anyone".
What he didn't understand is the damage I could do to my self trying to run away.

I hope the brother of that big ole guy isn't anywhere near N.E. Texas.

doris=^.^=

Biwako - That is an interesting pattern. So I'm trying to visualize the quilt pattern. I think I can make it long enough - just not to sure of how to widen it.
Next question is how can I disassociate it from the 'model'? shuddering

I forgot to include this with the photo!!! YUCK!!!

Next time you're out in the tall grass, remember this one.

This snake was recently found at the J & L Tack located just south of Poplar Bluff

On Highway 67 south of Town.

A reminder that these creatures are actually out there and no matter what you believe,

Sometimes they should get not only prescriptive rights to be there but the full right of way!

9 feet, 1 inch - 97 lbs.

DEEP-FRIED RATTLESNAKE

1 medium-sized rattlesnake (3-4 lbs.), cut into steaks
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup cracker crumbs
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (not garlic salt)
1 teaspoon salt
Dash pepper

Mix dry ingredients. Whisk milk into beaten egg and use to dip snake steaks.
Then coat them with dry ingredients. Fry, uncovered, in 400 degree oil until brown.

Yum,Yum! It sorta tastes like chicken.

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I'll never be able to eat chicken again =P

I would not be able to live in a place where I ran across snakes like that. Just looking at that photo gives me shudders, and I start feeling snakes crawling across my legs. Gah! I don't know how you do it, but I'll always have amazing respect for those women who can face down a huge snake with a shotgun :)

Caroline: Do you ever actually use that recipe? I'm not sure I could eat snake. But the strange thing is that one of my favorite Japanese dishes is charcoal-broiled eel!

Oh My Lord!!! TASTES LIKE CHICKEN!! You are killing me first thing in the morning. Its a good thing my tea is still steeping, or it would have shot from my nose when I read that. Toooo funny!

Faye

NOOOOO! I DONT EAT IT!!!!!! AND EEL SOUNDS EVEN WORSE!!! LOL!

You know you're a hard core quilter when you can look at a thing like that and see a quilt pattern LOLOLOL!!!

Sharon C.