Snake story

[okie]

I am so upset that I can't tell the story now.


Okie

[bobodu]

Wow...Slick Willie lost a lot of weight!!

[KE4AVB]

I seen bigger snakes here. My mother killed a 7-1/2 foot female diamond back rattle snake when I was a kid. She follow it thru waist high weeds while I was sent to get the rifle. She thought I was never going to come back with it. I had move the kitchen table and 5 gallon bucket under the doorway just to get it down.

How did I know it was female? It was the 100 tiny snake skeletons that were inside her remains. One shot 101 poisonous rattle snakes eliminated. She must of just gave birth a few days earlier.

[okie]

I seen bigger snakes here. My mother killed a 7-1/2 foot female diamond back rattle snake when I was a kid. She follow it thru waist high weeds while I was sent to get the rifle. She thought I was never going to come back with it. I had move the kitchen table and 5 gallon bucket under the doorway just to get it down.

How did I know it was female? It was the 100 tiny snake skeletons that were inside her remains. One shot 101 poisonous rattle snakes eliminated. She must of just gave birth a few days earlier.

My snake was only 4 foot-11 inches------------------But I got pictures.

Travis

[KE4AVB]

Still just as deadly...

I only seen a few non-poisonous ones at the new place but I to be careful until I know what the snake is before catching it. I usually carrying a firearm of some sorta when I am out. For some those poisonous ones usually turn up dead. Maybe it because they came down with a bad case of lead poisoning.

I know pictures are better but they do get lost after 50 years. I had one of my brother's father standing beside that snake but disappeared with the family photo album a few years during the time of my mother's dementia. I was surprised we still the 50 yr old picture at that time. If I remember correctly the snake has 17 rattles and a button. That would made her at 18 or 19 yrs old if she only shedded her skin once a year.

That sorta like the two Carps that I seen 20+ years ago in the local creek. Sometimes you just don't have camera when fishing. The pair looked like a pair of dolphins. They were nearly as big the couple's canoe that first spotted them. I have no idea how they manage to get to that part of the creek unless it was during a flood.

My mother's doctor wanted to how she hurt her shoulder one time and told him it was a fish she caught. He didn't believe her and told if her caught another he wanted to see it. Well about two weeks after got healed up she took them a 10 lb catfish. He just said next time you hurt your shoulder fishing just bring the fish as payment. Well the last track I had of that doctor he is back in Canada somewhere. He was an old Army doctor and definitely the mouth to go along with it. I heard cuss like a sailor term but I never been around one but this doctor knew how to cuss but also knew what he was doing to unlike some of today's doctors.

[bobodu]

That ain't nuttin" I can make ATVs fly!!

[okie]

That ain't nuttin" I can make ATVs fly!!

That looks like one of those optical conclusions thing-a-bobs.
or some heavy beams in the attic and a chain hoist.