big rattler?

wareagle5.0 · #1 07-19-2009, 06:26 PM

what is the most rattles yall have seen on a snake? i have 1 w/ 19 and have'nt heard of anyone who's seen more.

**Nicodemus** · #2 07-19-2009, 06:28 PM

15, unbroken string with the original still on. I took em off a 5 foot canebrake.

I`ve never seen a big diamondback with an unbroken string.

Rich Kaminski · #3 07-19-2009, 06:35 PM

Given to me by my nephew who killed two that day.

wareagle5.0 · #4 07-19-2009, 06:51 PM

the one i have is off of a canebreak and they are unbroken

fulldraw74 · #5 07-19-2009, 06:54 PM

Got one mounted with 16 rattlers and a button....

hartwellbasser · #6 07-19-2009, 07:07 PM

Saw one with 18 rattlers and a button about to eat a jack russell dog.

rkwrichard · #7 07-20-2009, 04:30 PM

I killed one down at Fort Stewart that was 21 rattles and a button. It was 6 1/2 feet long.

deadeye30215 · #8 07-20-2009, 07:27 PM

16 rattles and a button off a 5' timber rattler.

NGa.MtnHunter · #9 07-20-2009, 10:10 PM

13 rattlers , Timber killed him at the back door step. Him and the wifes ole moma cat wus having a stare'n contest. Nether one of them would move, until I shot the snake.

Tomboy Boots · #10 07-20-2009, 11:16 PM

It's been a while, but if I'm not mistaken, 21 rattles and a button.

**Nicodemus** · #11 07-20-2009, 11:24 PM

Nice snake Debbie! Does it still have the original, or has it been broken off?

wareagle5.0 · #12 07-21-2009, 01:17 AM

wow thats alot thats the only one ive seen that has more than mine . . . aren't timber and canebreak kinda the same thing?

NCHillbilly · #13 07-21-2009, 07:46 AM

Most I ever saw on one here was 14 and a button on a big yellow timber rattler.

HighCotton · #14 07-24-2009, 10:43 AM

6 foot rattlesnake. 12 rattles.

fwhitaker · #15 07-26-2009, 11:54 AM

Killed a 7'10" (without head) Eastern Diamondback a few years ago. He had 21 and a button. a few of the middle scales were cracked but he was fully intact. His head was larger than my fist.

He was the biggest I have seen or ever heard about.

shortround1 · #16 07-26-2009, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Tomboy Boots

It's been a while, but if I'm not mistaken, 21 rattles and a button.

that wuz a pretty snake right their!

wareagle5.0 · #17 07-29-2009, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by fwhitaker

Killed a 7'10" (without head) Eastern Diamondback a few years ago. He had 21 and a button. a few of the middle scales were cracked but he was fully intact. His head was larger than my fist.

He was the biggest I have seen or ever heard about.

holy moly, no pics?

fwhitaker · #18 07-30-2009, 12:11 AM

No after almost stepping on him....I was doing good to get the rattles and keep my lunch. Father-in-law took the measurement.

I was new to south GA. and had no idea what actually lived in gopher tortoise holes. I was extremely lucky that it was a very cold november day and it was sluggish.
That would have been a odd discussion with my boss of how I got a rattlesnake bite in south GA, when I was suppose to be at a "funeral" in NC. It was almost my own. karma almost got me

donald-f · #19 07-30-2009, 04:13 AM

7' 10" rattle snake minus the head would be over 8' long with the head. I would like to have seen that because a 6' one is rare. The average size of full grown is about 5' 8". I have handled snakes a long time and attrended about 10 round-ups in south Ga and Al. Sorry I will have to see it beside a tape to believe about a 8 ' rattler.

bander_TC50 · #20 07-30-2009, 03:55 PM

i dont know the distance but ive seen an eastern down in warner robins ga that stretched from the yellow to the white line on robins AFB. ran over it with a bus during an exercise spring of 2002 i belive.

caseyb · #21 10-09-2009, 10:15 PM

14 and a button

treemanjohn · #22 10-11-2009, 08:15 PM

My dad and I killed one almost 30 years ago when we were Trout fishing in Suches GA. It was just under 6', as big around as a softball, and had 21 rattles and a button.

pkp844 · #23 11-06-2009, 05:10 PM

their were some pics going around of a diamondback killed here in bulloch county that was 9'1" and weighed around 95lbs. it was living in a chicken house when they killed it.

germag · #24 11-06-2009, 05:46 PM

When a snake is dead, it will stretch out considerably longer than it would be in life.

The most rattle segments I've personally seen on a rattlesnake was 22 and a button on a captive EDB that I raised from birth. It was about 7 years old or so IIRC. The largest rattlesnake I've ever personally seen (and I've seen a LOT of them) was about 7' 3" or so. It was also a captive Eastern Diamondback. I've had a few Neotropicals that were around 6 feet or so and one HUGE Mexican West Coast (Crotalus basiliscus) that was over 6 feet. They are pretty tough to get an accurate live measurment on.....

GunDog · #25 11-07-2009, 12:01 AM

My dad killed one in Twiggs County that had 18 and a button. The snake was 6'7" without the head and poison room (Dad called it) and was soft tanned. The snake tanned was 17 5/8 inches wide. I had the hide fitted over the dash of my 1978 Jeep Commache plus had anough left for two belts and buckles that my Mom had made for us. The rattlers hung from the rear view mirror.

depthsoftheC · #26 11-07-2009, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by pkp844

their were some pics going around of a diamondback killed here in bulloch county that was 9'1" and weighed around 95lbs. it was living in a chicken house when they killed it.

please post a pic of that snake if you can find one. i would like to have that pic and i think everybody would like to see it...that snake was incredible

germag · #27 11-07-2009, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by depthsoftheC

please post a pic of that snake if you can find one. i would like to have that pic and i think everybody would like to see it...that snake was incredible

It's also a crock....the snake was nowhere near 9 ft or 95 lbs....good entertainment I guess, but completely fraudulent.

BuckHunter 34 · #28 11-07-2009, 08:33 AM

I'll post one for my dad...he was squirrel hunting a while back and almost stepped on a 5 foot diamond back with about 12 he said...not nearly as big as some on here but i thought it was a nice story...still a pretty big killer

depthsoftheC · #29 11-07-2009, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by germag

It's also a crock....the snake was nowhere near 9 ft or 95 lbs....good entertainment I guess, but completely fraudulent.

so you know the story behind it i'm guessing?

germag · #30 11-07-2009, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by depthsoftheC

so you know the story behind it i'm guessing?

I've seen the pictures. They've been on the internet and emailed around ad-nauseum. If it's the same one I'm thinking about, it was actually killed around Sarasota Florida and it was 7' 3" long....and nowhere near 35 lbs, much less 95 lbs.

Ross Allen offered a reward for an 8 ft EDB (dead or alive) for 20 years or more before he died and nobody ever collected it....and he was right in the middle of big diamondback country. A 7 foot diamondback is uncommon...an 8 footer is really, really rare. There has never been a 9 footer recorded. Ever. Lots of tall tales, but no verifications. The longest ever recorded was verified by Ditmars and it was 8' 3" in 1936.