Giant Rattler Eating A Jackrabbit

Someone emailed this to me, it is supposed to be around George West and looks pretty real to me. If so this is the biggest rattler I have ever seen!!!

Damn! Looks legit to me

HOLY snake. Looks real to me also

yup

that is a protein feeder for them damned high fenced rattlers.

Where's txs?

Impressive....but isn't that a cottontail?

WOW!!

Thats a heck of a snake

looks like a cottontail to me too. Could be an average size snake eating at baby rabbit too.

I am going to go with real picture, big snake, cottontail, and good photo angle of shot to make it appear larger...for $500

I dont think its real. Cool pic tho

im thinking its real

I will 2nd this except for I will call it an above average snake. Look at the amount of rattles and size of them compared to snake. I'll PM my address for the money. I killed a 6'+ snake in Live Oak county about 20 miles north of GW in the 70's that had swallowed a rabbit like this size one.

I agree...for what that's worth!

Looks real-not average rattle bug-BIGGGG

This

I dont know, but if i was there i would have screwed up his lunch

Looks real to me.. I would've captured him live. A snake that size is worth some $$

They all look big when your standing next to them......

Wow !! Looks kinda real to me, the cows even looking like it real . Either way that would have been his last rabbit had I been there. Why didn't you kill it

That's impressive, can't tell whether it's real or fake but that thing has some mass!

Has Killer weighed in on this yet?

He was the one taking the pic

He is still hiding under the bed

Dang that is a huge rattler! Never seen one that big

That's huge ratttler right there

DAMN!

Killer has arrived and left

Will that thing meet ARs? I would say it also probably came out of this persons' neighbors stand which is close to his fenceline!

The snake would be utterly helpless if you walked upon him at that point.

That's what she said ! Sorry had to do it

Those big rattlers love the rabbit.

I drug this one out from under a conex:

ch1966, That rattler can't eat a rabbit....he doesn't have a head.

I don't see what makes it look fake. Big rattlers eat rabbits, all the time.

LOL thats funny!

Hope its still not living!

WHOA

Awesome picture, I'm with the photo angle to make it look bigger.

I think it's fake

I would have for sure hell no.

Perfect opportunity to whack it's head off right there.

It's a real photo for sure. The cows are looking at the guy who took it. Also, the snake is definitely not average size...look at how many levels of rattlers he has. It gets hard to count after 9 (he has several more) but that means a 9 year old snake at least. I got one 6'3" that had 9 and a button, and I wasn't far from George West that time. Big uns down that way!

FYI
The rattlers are made when they shed their skin and they can shed 2 or 3 times a year and each shed makes a rattle. (At birth, a “pre-button” is present at the tip of the snake's tail; it is replaced by the “button” several days later when the first skin is shed. However, no sound can be made by the rattle until a second segment is added when the skin is shed again.[40] A new rattle segment is added each time the snake sheds its skin. They may shed their skins several times a year depending on food supply and growth rates. Rattlesnakes travel with their rattles held up to protect them from damage, but in spite of this precaution, their day-to-day activities in the wild still cause them to regularly break off end segments. Because of this, there is no way to determine the age of a rattlesnake based on the number of rattles on its tail)

Looks fake to me

Picture looks pretty good, but that snake sure looks too big to believe. If this is real, where are the pictures of the dead snake?

Might be a small rabbit, but still a BIG FAT mean rattler! Real or shopped I like it. And for all those that said its defenseless or walk right up and chop its head off, well uhm no thanks!
The biggest one I killed was right about 6 feet and fat, but not as fat as the photo. After me and my buddy put 2 clips from my colt 45 into it it was still mean as ever. We only grazed the head cause it was moving so much but we filled the body full of big holes. Took at least an hour for it to stop moving and die. I was still scared of it the next morning in my pick up bed, hell its been 10 years and I am still scared of that snake.

wow

What he said!!!!!!!!!!

Thats a pretty big Bobalink

Yep

Probably real picture using trick Call forced perspective and maybe WA lens I believe.

Exactly what I was thinking....

I vote real on this one and a great cameral angle to make a very big snattlerake look even more ginormous! Big snake for sure length wise 5 1/2'+ but extremely thick! I've seen them this big in S TX. He definately hasn't missed too many meals and if had been me I'd have snapped that picture and then quickly dispatched his nasty arsh!

I worked down in thoses areas for a couple of years. They got some big fat snakes down there, and you can't just run off in the bushes for them without getting ripped up by the brush. People just think everything has thorns on it in north and central Texas. It's bad down there

would hate to walk up on that thing!

holy smokes

if i knew how to post pics,, i got pics of a snake of some sort eating a cotton tail just the other day too. this snake i saw was a lot smaller than the rabbit but managed to get him down!! pretty cool

No way that can be real were talking record breaking here... and who just stands there and takes a picture of it and let it get away?

I totally believe it to be real. We have a place very close to George West just outside of San Diego, and we've seen them that big.

hate them rattlers

Now that would sure mess up a good pair of fruit of the looms

Holy Sh!t

Crazy huge

And have rabbit stew