Oh and last year me and the wife found a timber rattler on a back country road laying out on the warm black top. It was september or october. About the first cool night we had. I bet it was every bit of 8 feet long. I promise you. I counted 18 or 22 rattlers but couldnt get close enough to see good. It was just getting dark. Looked like he come out of a corn field by a creek and was gonna head up the wooded mountain. It was at the foot of green mountain next to the huntsville speedway. I wanted him bad. I was in shorts and flip flops. No weapons or sticks and was almost pitch dark. I was driving her corolla. I said well i will just run him over a few times and then find a rock or stick and beat him to death and throw him in the trunk like a fool. I ran him over, backed over him. Ran him over just back and forth trying not to mess his head up cause i wanted it to mount. I ran him over about 8 times and the devil just slithered off into an overgrown thicket. I got out and looked. I said hell i dont want to find him and deal with him that bad. Felt like i was askin for trouble. We had to leave him. I been hopin to find another one day as big as that one. Just not while im out of a car. That thing was a monster. It was as fat as my upper leg but im not a real thick guy. The head was probobably 5 inches across. I think it was 8 1/2 feet long. Not many people believe me. Think im exaggerating but im not. I know it was 8ft or more. It never moved while i walked around it taking pictures. The phone i had got broken before i could send the pics to save them. My goal in life is to find one as big as that one and nail it to a decorated board one day. Unbeleivable that thing was. And we was in the city limits technically.
We’re not dead. We just smell that way. Dayum. - AC870
Yessir! I’m always gonna shoot what makes me happy and I want everyone else to do the same! If you shoot one be proud of it and don’t worry what anyone else thinks. - SJ22
