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[A. gigas]

also, to everyone saying it's a camera angle trick, its bigger than 5 feet. look at the tail, and it's touching the ground. look at the part highest up, it's up to about his nose, if the man is really how tall they say, this should be roughly 5'3"-5'6" feet. then you count the length of the part hanging down on the left, which, judging by comparison to the part on the right, looks about 1'3"-1'4".
add it up,and the snake is in the 6'6"-6'10" range.

 

[snakeguy101]

^look again bro, it is not touching the ground, it is being suspended by the stick and held closer to the camera to make it appear that it is taller than the guy.

 

[snakeguy101]

here is a very similar case:

http://www.snakeguy101.com/articles.php?article_id=8

 

[coura]

A problem I have with big game hunting and this has already been proven many times is that hunters target the most high stamina, more sucessfull breeder males in the population leading to low quality genetics. Stuff like the decreasing size of horns in many hooved animals is the result of this. This animals could be targeted but only after a detailed study proving that they were past their prime and well represented already in a genetic point of view.
This ratle had prime genetics and took many years of survival to reach this size, lets hope she was a good breeder and that her line keeps living.

 

[EricIvins]

A problem I have with big game hunting and this has already been proven many times is that hunters target the most high stamina, more sucessfull breeder males in the population leading to low quality genetics. Stuff like the decreasing size of horns in many hooved animals is the result of this. This animals could be targeted but only after a detailed study proving that they were past their prime and well represented already in a genetic point of view.
This ratle had prime genetics and took many years of survival to reach this size, lets hope she was a good breeder and that her line keeps living.

Actually Game management dictates the year class in which an animal is harvested..........By then, the better genetics have already been passed for a few seasons......

 

[coura]

Actually Game management dictates the year class in which an animal is harvested..........By then, the better genetics have already been passed for a few seasons......

That is ok, however its not allways properly inforced or used.

 

[coreyweinkoetz]

When are you going to work for the DNRE ?

I kill things for no reason....

I am sure the Michigan department of natural resources and environment would be real happy to hear that one of their new wannabee employee's is telling everyone in open forums that

I kill things for no reason....

 

[chloe]

yep thats wrong, but hes a hunter and he hated snakes :-(

 

[Chad55]

It was a bit of a joke you musta missed that one... and technically I do kill things for no reason. I kill for sport (although I do not waste meat nor do I poach or kill out of season).

 

[TTTT]

^look again bro, it is not touching the ground, it is being suspended by the stick and held closer to the camera to make it appear that it is taller than the guy.

I've seen lots of fisherman do that before, hold the fish they catch out in front of them, closer to the camera, so the fish looks bigger then it is.

Anyways, I wish he didn't kill that. It was such a sweet snake, sorry but I can't stand hunting.