Mother Nature's creatures

So last night I was awakened by my husband who said he just shot a huge snake by our porch. He was walking to his work van and as he was walking back noticed he was walking right by this snake. He grabs his 22 single shot bolt action rifle, loads it and shoots the snake. His heart was racing. It doesn't look like a very old snake to me but it is still big. Luckily it wasn't a rattler. He then got a shovel and planted it in the snake in the ground. That snake wasn't moving anywhere.