according to the Texans
because the wild boars love to eat them
so they have evolved to not shake their rattles anymore
glad i don't live there.... this guy stands at 6-2 inches tall
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/Biggun.png

Holy crap. that has to be enlarged. I have never seen a rattle snake that big. I hate snakes.

Holy crap. that has to be enlarged. I have never seen a rattle snake that big. I hate snakes.

Fish pictures don't lie about size either.:)

I love snakes. That is a really big eastern diamondback specimen!

dig this.... i lived in an area that had LARGE KING SNAKES
and those snakes definitely got that huge....
(these snakes eat rattlers)

How do i know? well one day i was going home
and thought there was a long Limb laying across
a nine foot wide driveway so i purposely drove over it
with my VW bug to bust it up for later retrieval
driving over it with a BUMP -BUMP first front wheels
and then back wheels.

I looked in the mirror and then realized it was actually a snake
that was pure black.... as it was writhing in pain for a moment only.

i ran up to it and didn't see even the slightest injury
as it quickly started going down a gopher hole
so i grabbed it and was trying to catch it using every bit
of my strength and i am a very strong man
trying desperately to hold on using
every trick i knew and i was out gunned totally

Soon i was down to the last three feet
and there was no stopping it! i essentially
was getting SPOOLED and it got away. :hs:

I love the beer he has on the ground, drinking and poisonous snakes, always a great combo.

Growing up we had some big pythons and boas as pets.

Biggest was a 14 ft Burmese python, use to eat big rabbits.
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Thats one giant rattler. Did they say how it got killed?