Saw this on facebook
I'd hate to walk up on that one.

Definitely a real, and BIG snake but the camera angle are making it look larger than life. The pole he is using is a long one, plus it is at his waste. Nonetheless, a hell of a big snake!

Yeah i know the angle thing but think about how high that truck is , i am going to say bout 4' a most and if its at his wast then that's about another 3 foot so around 7' ?

Then snake might also NOT be dragging the ground...it might just appear that way because of his curled tail.

Not sure?

Very difficult to tell since he has the pole extended away from him and the snake is angled to the camera.

This is what was posted by the South Texas Hunting association

"Ok Everyone Here Is The Real Story" Freddy Cervantes from Asherton, Tx. is the one taking this 9 1/2 ft. Rattler on the Faith Ranch. Congrats Freddy!!!

Not sure, but the photo looks like it is off in some way. It just does not look right.

Probably run 7 foot

That sucker is waaaay bigtime longer than the 5'7"er without his head and most of his neck that lives on my wall....and weighed 22lbs 9ozs on a CStores meat scale in Abilene all bled out.

I got a little too far back when I was cutting his head off with a pocket knife thank goodness ...after 19 rounds of Stingers with 18 of 'em 'tween his eyes and the back of his head before it narrowed down to his neck standing over the top of him 3 feet away...and he STILL rolled over and grabbed the stick I pinned him with while I was sawing off his head and pumped a steering wheel sized circle of venom.
Ron

huh

I'm gonna say real and big...

I've saw one at Brownwood State Park that was nearly that big....all of the park Rangers were trying to corral it...never did.....

I'm no salesman, but I could make a lot of money of you people, anyway.

dead snakes always stretch out longer than live ones, not that I am going to measure a rattler

Just doesn't look right.

Real and Big.

Photo shop...total BS

Another skeptic, it just doesn't look natural.

Zoomed to 400 and it looks like the guy is photo shopped on the truck, it appears there is a little space between his boot & the bed of the truck, also more than half his foot is off the truck. Look at the snake's body in front of his left boot, there is a slice in it, probably where they photo shopped the snakes together.

I also think if it was real, that snake would have a lot bigger girth. Lets say that guy is 5'8". He has that snake all the way up to his chin, so that makes that part about 5' alone, add the distance from the top of the bed to its tail, getting close to 9'

I am also a skeptic, photo shopped is my guess.

I have little faith in this picture. How come all these "huge" rattlesnakes are not just a little bit bigger than records, they are a whole lot bigger. If it was so big, photo it with a tape measure. He's on a work truck. There's not tape measure there?? Big snake for sure.....but not that big.

Look at the open telescoping fuse pole puller being open (to the left of transformer). It appears the snake is a good ways from the man and vehicle. Kind of like holding a fish arms length from you. Just my thoughts.

You might be correct, Stub. Could be they ran over it, thinking it was a branch. That could be what those faint diagonal lines you're seeing across it, don't know. But that is what the discussion is. Don't know.
JS

on flat ground that bed should be no higher than 48" more likely though it is 45" or so. The guy holding it does not look to be photoshopped on there to me,but I am not a photoshop investigator. As far as the snake goes I have killed a few over 6' and 7' down in south Texas and Mexico. I have seen some monsters killed on one of the Briscoe ranches in Duvall County, and the biggest I have personally ever seen was in Wilson County that was all the way across the dirt road that is maybe 7' at it's narrowest. I tried to run it over and missed. Because of that rattler my wife has never open a gate since, and just when I had her trained good to open gates. There are some out there but I have to agree if I came across a 9' rattler I would get it verified somehow with a measurement or something just to shut down all the internet snake wranglers.

Somebody point out where the guys right arm, shoulder and hand is that holding the snake to his chin ???