OK, I think I finally have a real answer on this one.



The guy in the photo seems to be holding the snake with a pair of Whitney tongs. With a little net scrounging, I find that the lower jaw of these tongs is exactly 1 inch wide (probably machined from 1" aluminum stock).



I found a higher resolution version of the photo here:

http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=425014



Plugging the photo into my handy-dandy measuring program, I find that the snake is approximately 6'1", not counting the rattle (it's cut off in all versions of the photo), give or take a couple inches because even at this resolution one pixel difference in the width of the tongs is significant.



As for weight, I work with a 6 foot mexican rattlesnake that weighed 16 pounds the last time I weighed him, and the snake in this photo is nowhere NEAR as thick...



And yes, that's still a good size atrox...

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• giant diamondback - JohnOH, Mon Aug 28 16:29:15 2006
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• I dont know about the weight .. but - koky6869, Mon Sep 4 11:55:35 2006
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