Those would have been Mekong delta infants. I saw one longer than my Huey, and that was with its head a few feet off the ground, we hovered slowly over it and landed a good hundred yards away; if several crews hadn't seen it, nobody would have believed it.

Snake story: First guy in the hospital bed next to me was a riverboat gunner, said he was inspecting under a bridge support and this head wider than his lifted up and looked him in the face. He had a natural reaction, shot it in the face with his .45... and it got mad and took after him. Said his buddies emptied their M16s into it without slowing it down, and one finally stopped it with a 40mm grenade that took a big chunk out of its back. Sounded about the size I saw. The snake didn't put him in the hospital, that was a pretty big hole in the back of his thigh from a 7.62. I had to do a solo hike along a small river in ankle deep mud with only an M16 once, and my worst fear wasn't the little people that liked to cut our dicks off, it was a snake I knew the M16 wouldn't stop and I couldn't outrun in the mud. And the crocodiles, but snakes that big... nightmare stuff.

 

 

Big Chevy with a factory receiver? Mine's a 2", probably aftermarket receiver. It should handle anything that standard Silverado will haul.

 

What kind of Snake was it, Moldy?
I'd hate to run into an Anaconda.

 

Holy ****! I just read that Anacondas have made it to Florida!

 

We thought it was a python, Anacondas are from South America.

 

 

I saw that a week or two ago, too. The way those things breed and are a match for the gators, I expect a huge reduction in Florida wildlife (and dogs and golfers) in the next 10-20 years. You can hunt them, but they'll hunt you at the same time.

 

They killed this Anaconda here in Florida



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