longest snake you've ever seen in wild

[jbean7916]

A 6+ foot black rat snake I found in my front yard my Jr. year of H.S. I though it was a piece of cable!! Bent down to pick it up and it moved

So of course I carefully picked him up, took him inside and said "mom, look what I found!!"

She barely looked up, said "that's nice, now take it outside"


Geez, I know some people that would FREAK but no reaction

[BILLB OKC]

a 6/7 foot bull snake that bit me about 20 times when i tried to save his ass.
he was suning and resting in the middle of a intersection out in new mexico.
BTW i did succed in getting him off the road and safely into the underbrush.

[gothkenny]

Blue Racer, about 4.5 feet. Gooorgeous. Too quick for me to catch though. ://

[_Venom_]

Never seen a snake in the wild.

[CA cowgirl]

I've seen a pacific gopher snake up at the ranch I used to board a horse at, and it was approximately 4.5' long. Beautiful!

I've also come upon some rattlesnakes approximately 4' long, I wasn't well versed in subspecies, just undoubtably familiar with what makes a rattler a rattler.

Smallest I've seen is the sharp-tailed snake, this fella gives you a good idea of the size of the two I found.

I stumbled upon this link, check out the 6th row pix of this red coachwhip ID page. Shows a coachwhip eating an alligator lizard and another eating a speckled rattlesnake... fasinating. Some more snake eating snake action on this page... California Striped Racer.

[CA cowgirl]

the close to 7ft Cali King that has been in my car since i pulled her out of the middle of the street 10+ years ago she was my first snake and i have maaaany battle scars from her... but now she is as sweet as can be, just getting old and im sure starting to go

You do mean in your care? I'd think the temps in the car would be challenging to regulate for her.

Please share pix when you can.

[mrmertz]

I'm with kon1...going to work one morning I spotted a easy 7 foot bullsnake (Gopher snake) getting ready to try to make it across 6 lanes of traffic. I zipped over to the shoulder and threw the car into reverse to go back to him and accidently ran it over instead...no, just kidding...got out and he curled some but was fine in letting me pick him up and moved him back off into the desert. This time facing AWAY from Oracle Road. I kicked myself for not putting him in the back of the car to show the wife as he was so big in girth that there was nowhere for him to squeeze into - he was that large. I did a U-turn down the road but by the time I got back he was gone.

That was the largest AZ snake I have ever seen, captive or wild. I'd like to think he's still around today, doin' his bullsnake thing.