The 6'3'' Eastern Diamondback, I was talking about killing. When I saw that sucker, I had just turned off the highway on to the lane where we lived on the farm. There was a huge Pecan tree at the end of the lane by the mailboxes. I am looking down the lane, (it was about 250 yds long) I see what I thought was big limb fell out of the Pecan tree, and then,..................that limb began to move and I realized it was a snake! I came down the lane as fast as I could go and slid my truck up on the snake. I wasn't sure if I got him or if I did where he was. So I roll down the window and lean out and I got him under the front drivers tire about a foot back from his head and he was POed!! He was striking the tire and that milky crap running down my tire.
So I thought for a second and I thought if I go to the house and get my gun someone could walk up to my truck thinking something was wrong and get struck. So I go back to my tool box and get two hammers out. A straight claw and a 26oz. framing hammer I used all the time. I got him to stretch all the length he could have being pinned under the tire. I reached out with the straight claw and got it behind his head and drove it with the framing hammer as deep as it could go.
I got back in the truck and backed off of him. He was dead he just didn't know it. So I threw him in the back of my truck and I see my wife's car at my in-laws house. So I pulled up and went to the front door and hollered thru the screen to my wife you have got to see what I just killed out by the mailboxes. So I am six foot and as I said this one was 6'3'' minus the head and rattles. So I am holding this snake up over my head so I don't have to drag to much of him!
Steve, this was the funny part as I approached the screen door with the snake my wife opens the screen door. My mother in law is sitting in her recliner and sees the snake and like I said, he didn't really know he was dead so he is writhing around on the hammer a bit! My mother in law was 300+ lbs., she jumped out of that chair and was in the other room before I got to the top step going in the den!!! She is screaming get that snake out of here and shrieking. I couldn't help but laugh!!
I skinit him out and before I could put the meat in the freezer my wife said, Oh H3!! No he is not going in my freezer or you are leaving!!! So never got a chance to try that one. But the little one are gooooooooooood eating!!!