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Originally Posted by CMRetics
Every large "24+ snake" measured has been beyond badly measured. I've seen pictures of samantha, fragrant flower, medusa, fluffy, none of them are likely in all reality past 22' long. Is 19-20 foot common for some big girls? Sure thing, but even that extra 2 foot is a huge noticeable difference, to add 2 more, or 4 more feet onto that, you'd have to be blind to mistake it.
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Fluffy was measured on tv and it was very still and it looked a very good measurement and your right she only came up at 20 foot 1inch. Fragant flower has been measured several times by reporters and they all get her over 22 foot. Their was some footage of her being measured at 22 foot 9 inches. I have a friend who owns a 21 foot 8 inch retic and Fragant flower definitley looks longer than her.
You are right in the fact that less than 1% of retics reach over 20 foot and to find the extra 1-2 foot is even less and after years of searhing can only find a handful of retics genuinley over this size. For a snake to be over 25 foot it really would be the only one of it's kind I would imagine just like the tallest guy in the world being 8 foot 3 inches.
In all the pictures of Samantha I have seen, both from friends and on the web plus the footage of her being measured in 1999 she was definitley not over 26foot. I doubt she was over 23 foot BUT this shouldn't take away what a magnificant and extremley large snake she was. With all these false measurements flying around she doesnt sem that impressive when shes just short of 23 foot but in reality I'm not sure I'll see a bigger snake in my lifetime and I'm quite young lol.
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