This is why i do not turkey hunt!!!

Get some boots!!!. Ha.... that would be a good reason to scare a few away....

Big ol joker there

Good Gosh!!!

What does that one score?

dang....

I showed that to Julie and now she doesnt want to go hunting in the morning

Would'a been a good'n next year!

Giant death sausage.

I took my daughter when she was about twelve one morning to see what all this turkey hunting was about........ me and one other member killed five rattlesnakes and a cotton mouth moccasion! She never want to turkey hunt again....

Dang good eating there!

Is that a Diamondback? Not much black on the tail.

That's a Hoss

Nice diamond back! I'd like to have one that size to eat.

http://media.alabama.gov/pr/pr.aspx?id=7654

Follow this link and fill out the survey. US Fish and Wildlife is trying to protect the Eastern Diamondback and it trying to get a population estimate.

I hate snakes!!!!!

Wow!! Monster. I don't have much experience with Diamonds but aren't they much more belligerent than a Timber? Well, you couldn't classify a Timber as belligerent as they are a docile snake but I hear Diamonds are less patient.

Where did that one come from?

WOW...!!!

My club in Mobile county. He was sunning on a sandy road.

Boots might just make that one giggle. Good grief.

Wow.

Thats a DEMONback rattleSATAN.

That one would break your leg if he hit you hard as he could. Boots probably wouldn't matter.

I'd crawl over one like that to get to a turkey

high fence

Definitely a trophy a lot of folks can eat on him.

Dang

That's what I'm talking about!!

He's not mature. Needed a couple more years.

Killed at night over corn on Jim walter land while riding the roads drinking beer....

I've posted this pic before, but not the whole story..



this Timber Rattlesnake bit me while turkey hunting in 82 er so while I was trying to get in front of a running and gobbling bird. In open hardwoods. I threw up couple of times right after the hit. Got off with a light, mostly dry, bite. Had minimal swelling and redness.

Two days later I entered the "Valley of the Snake" after the same bird. I got nauseated upon entering the flat where I got bit. I left the bird.

Couple of days later I was working him and a black snake crawled across my leg. I miss judged the range and at the shot the bird jumped, went back to strutting. It wasn't that far a misjudge either before you smart arses chime in....

A few days later I called him off the roost to 25 steps, centered the bead on his head and fired. I have no idea where the bird went, no dead bird, no run off, mo fly off. Damn ground opened up and Satan took him down. I guess. I quit hunting that spot.

A year later I mounted the snake, coiled up, ready to strike. Finished late at night so I put the mounted snake on the TV to dry and went to bed. Several hours later I dreamed "The Snake" crawled down off the TV, came to my bedroom and crawled up on my chest as I slept. In the dream I opened my eyes and the snake bit me in the face.

It scared me so bad I woke up. In a sweat. Lights out. Can't see where the damn snake went. Ain't putting my foot down either. Finally jump to the wall switch and cut the lights on. Snake is still on the TV......

I carry him out to the truck, put him on the front seat and LOCK THE DAMN DOORS. Back to be.

Sons of Satan, that snake and that gobbler.

True story...

X2!

bullshitt...internet bravado.......

What?
Hellllll No!
I would definitely take a detour.

I would be levitating off the damn ground from the multiple shotgun blasts in that no shoulders direction.

Great story Troy. I would've quit hunting "the valley of the snake" too.

I would have burned the valley of the snake and dropped millions of mouse traps and glue traps from helicoptor so all snakes were stuck beyond the ability to move and then would have had some fun killing each one of them.

Great story Troy.

What would have been funny, is if his wife moved the snake after he went to bed. Troy wakes up after his dream, snake is not on the TV.

I bet Troy burns the house down. LOL!

My 14 year old son killed one yesterday that was just under 6 feet.

troy...did the snake die from just BITING YOU??? Youre a tough son of a gun...bit by that thing and just threw up a few times...dang!

I was single back then, no wife or live-in......and IF the snake hadn't been on the TV no telling what I would of done because that damn dream was REAL....


outdoor, I was a couple miles from the truck and that thing was HUGE, my two hands lacked an inch of going around her middle. Hell yes I threw up...and turned white. I figured I was in deep chitt for sure. Got lucky.....

Im glad you did get lucky. Im always scared of getting bit back in the middle of no where and having a hard time getting out. Glad it worked out for you Troy! Thats one BIG snake!