Big snake pic

[drakeshooter]

I received this in an email. Supposedly it came from somewhere around Big Sandy, TN near Kentucky Lake while the guy was turkey hunting. Anybody ever see this before or know the story?

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/drakeshooter/bigasssnake.jpg

[barney]

Looks fake to me!

[drakeshooter]

I was thinking the same thing. The end of the stick, where his hand should be, looks shopped. At the same time, you can see the shadow of the stick across his body. I don't know.

[kycowboy]

if he was turkey hunting why does it still have a head thats where I would have shoot

[quackrstackr]

It's not fake. I saw the pic about 2 hours after the guy killed it when he sent it to a coworker.

It was killed while turkey hunting in west TN. I'm sure it looks bigger than it probably was because of the camera angle and way he's holding it, but it's still a big ol' moccasin.

[GunCat]

Looks like he is holding it out closer to the camera like some of yall do with your fish pictures. Its a big snake no doubt, you can tell by the head and the roughness of the scales

Those cottonmouth can grow big. Here is one I was within 5 feet of before I went airborne:eek: He was a good 4.5 to 5 long. This picture was taken on the Cheatam WMA near Ashland City, TN.

http://img.groundspeak.com/cache/log/f8463685-c869-4476-9868-d05a531fcea7.jpg

[trust me]

Those dudes don't play around. Our timber rattlers will try to get out of your way, a copperhead will play possum and let you go by, but a cottonmouth is always ready to tangle right now.

[quackrstackr]

Yes indeed they are.

Those suckers will charge you in a heartbeat even if you're just minding your own business.

[SmokeyBear]

OMG!!!:eek: There will probably be a dadgum MonsterQuest show on the History Channel about those things before long!!!:D
I like the first picture better than the second picture.............because the first one is DEAD!!!!!!!!!:p:p:p:D

[str8 shot]

its fake!!!look at the droopy tounge:p:D

[lkj118]

I like the first picture better than the second picture.............because the first one is DEAD!!!!!!!!!:p:p:p:D[/quote]

my thoughts exactly:D

[Duster]

Notice the body of the cottonmouth looks to almost be floating, Thats true with any of the poison species. All other snakes swim with their head up but their body under water. Quick easy way to tell when you run across a snake on the water.

On the photo's both them are fine specimen's of one not to mess with while alive.

[killinmammals]

My buddy would have seriously cried if he came up on that snake...then he would have ran screaming like a girl. He raises his legs off the floorboard of his truck when he runs over one....yes its that bad!!:D:D:eek:

[keith meador]

what did it score?

[quackrstackr]

Notice the body of the cottonmouth looks to almost be floating, Thats true with any of the poison species. All other snakes swim with their head up but their body under water. Quick easy way to tell when you run across a snake on the water.

They have a tendency to lift their heads high into the air and about 1/3 of their body length out of the water when alerted, also. It's pretty freaky having one of them head toward you at mach speed across the water while raised up like a cobra.

We have a bunch of the vile things around this end of the state.

[ditchdigger]

Wouldn't a snake that big be heavy? He just doesn't look to be in any strain at all....makes you wonder? Still scares me:eek:!

[GSP]

Wouldn't a snake that big be heavy? He just doesn't look to be in any strain at all....makes you wonder? Still scares me:eek:!

Look close at right arm, he is not holding the stick, he has his arm laying on top of snag the snake is hanging from.

[JDMiller]

We have a bunch of the vile things around this end of the state.


Thats a understatement quack.... were practically raised up with them. I dont really know of any direction you cant find one..... and pretty close to the "magnum" variety in the pic. We seem to have a good variety of poisonous snakes... cottonmouths...copperheads... timbers and those little pygmies around the SE side of the county. I guess were just lucky.

A lot of people question the low harvest numbers of deer & turkey in far west counties like Hickman & Fulton. Heck ...I've even turned down a spot that was crawling with turkeys around Wickliffe.... its for a good reason.

[scratch]

You boys got way to many snakes down your way for my likens:eek:

[Ky'sFinest]

them dang cottonmouths... i hate them things with a passion.
last summer me and the wife were out on the kayak in this creek down here and one came off the bank into the water at us. i think that is the fastest i have ever paddled that 2 person kayak!!

last weekend me and a couple of buddies were stompin thru the palmettos down here hog huntin. I just told my buddy how much i didn't like walkin thru that brush on such a warm day... because of snakes.

it couldn't have been more than 10 mins. later i about stepped on a snake i would say close to 5 to 6 ft. i don't think he was poisonous.

later on we went down into what we call the swamp, and my buddy walked up on one heck of a moccasin. we thought it was dead after he shot it in the head with his pistol. but it came back to life when i tried to lift him with a stick. we both let him have a few more rounds from our pistols!!!

[naturalelite]

They have a tendency to lift their heads high into the air and about 1/3 of their body length out of the water when alerted, also. It's pretty freaky having one of them head toward you at mach speed across the water while raised up like a cobra.

We have a bunch of the vile things around this end of the state.

Keith, take notes if we come fishing during the warmer months I am using you as a human shield if one of those things get close...You have no idea what that 21 foot procraft can do if provoked!!! MID 70's ain't nothing...:eek:

[keith meador]

Keith, take notes if we come fishing during the warmer months I am using you as a human shield if one of those things get close...You have no idea what that 21 foot procraft can do if provoked!!! MID 70's ain't nothing...:eek:

note to self: if natty starts drinking the bottled water, and then gets an eye full of one of quackrs pet snakes, hold on real tight, it could get ugly on the big water:eek:

[MsgMills]

Why run from a snake, if you got a paddle in your hands or even the net from the boat. If I'm on the water in my boat, ain't no snake running me out of the area. :DLay the smack down on that snake and show him who's boss.

[quackrstackr]

Why run from a snake, if you got a paddle in your hands or even the net from the boat. If I'm on the water in my boat, ain't no snake running me out of the area. :DLay the smack down on that snake and show him who's boss.

You wait until a cottonmouth the size of the one in that picture takes that boat away from you. Been there done that. 3 grown men standing on their tippy toes at the transom trying to fling one out with their fishing rods after he decided to commandeer the boat. You would be surprised how fast one of those things can get in the boat with you when they take a mind to.

For you guys that have never been around cottonmouths, these things can be aggressive. The will charge you from a long distance unprovoked at times. I've only seen them do it while they were swimming, never on land.

[Art]

I would think if the snake were as big as it appears to be then the guy would be straining a little bit to hold it up. That snake would have to be heavy. I guess it's just the same photo trickery that we see in so many deer photos. I can make a 120" look like a 160" on film.;):D

[Multidigits]

Why run from a snake, if you got a paddle in your hands or even the net from the boat. If I'm on the water in my boat, ain't no snake running me out of the area. :DLay the smack down on that snake and show him who's boss.


I'd like to have a video of you whacking a snake like that one with a boat paddle. Let me know if you ever get one and I'll buy the rights to it.

[7mmx2]

That is a monster dead/fake/alive!!