Whoa!

My good buddy Pauly B and I have been talking about a wild boar hunt for a while now…we both own 1894 Marlins in .44 Mag with iron sights and we thought it might make for an interesting hunt.   I’m seeing Pauly next month at the 4th of July Hollister motorcycle rally and we’ll probably move our planning forward during that visit.

Never one to miss an opportunity for an interesting message, Pauly sent me this photo of a young fellow and his new friend on a recent pig hunt in Texas.

All I could say when I saw this photo was “whoa!”  I’ve seen rattlers that big in the Florida panhandle out on the Eglin AFB bombing ranges.   It’s hard to imagine they get this big until you see one, and even then, you wonder if your eyes are lying to you.   It seems the young fellow in the photo above was sitting in a blind waiting for the pigs to swing by when the rattler poked his head in.  It’s 9’6″ long with 22 rattles, a head more than 5 inches wide, and 2 1/2-inch fangs!

It sure would have been fun to have had a video camera on those guys when that snake popped in for a visit!