Giant Diamondback Rattle Snake !!

Veteran snake handler Steve Scruggs shows how to handle a massive Eastern Diamondback Rattle Snake. This snake is big. It might be hard to tell but the snake hooks he was using were bending due to the massive weight of this animal. What a Snake !!

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[ihatepolitics91]

for a diamondback that snake was pretty docile....

[dragio44]

GET BACK IN THE BOX !!

[Daywalkertwentyseven]

Everybody stay still? Kinda hard to move when your hanging from the rafters.

[Hollywood7068]

HES LOOKING AT ME!!

[OG035]

@7muktar hahaa ur right about that! if he would hold ME like that i would easily bite him:P hahaaaaXD

[ihatepolitics91]

@7muktar (late reply)

you do have a point,some D'Backs do actually strike when its threaten..but i guess in this case it wasn't

[clarkewi]

You don't want to get bit by that.

[ihatepolitics91]

@TheKraitman i wouldn't even say that the handling method was stupid it was more offa show/fail for more publicity but your right 1 fatal mistake and its him being rushed to the hospital

[Tarzan07330]

@doyle178 i second that. lol. my C.atrox have some attitudes to em, but nothin compared to C. viridis.

[doyle178]

@Alf90100 C. atrox do seem to be a fair bit meaner than the eastern diamondbacks. Meanest I've seen has been the Prairie rattler. Not a friendly snake at all.

[ihatepolitics91]

@Alf90100 oooh i understand..i mean normally wouldn't a venomous snake reacted a certain way,even if it was docile??

@7muktar you do have a point

[Alf90100]

@ihatepolitics91 Eastern Diamondbacks [Crotalus adamanteus] generally are more docile, whereas Western Diamondbacks [Crotalus atrox] do tend to be much more defensive. Imo, holding a Western like that would have been a much bigger feat.