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re: Snake bite through boots?
Posted on 2/28/19 at 7:51 am to Bigbee Hills
Posted on 2/28/19 at 7:51 am to Bigbee Hills
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One day we were traversing through a swamp of the wolf river around Memphis and had a close call with an average sized cottonmouth. I asked the surveyor/engineer who I was training under, and who had 35 year's worth of experience, of how many surveyors he ever knew that had been bitten.
He said one. And that's because he was messing with it. One. Coming from a guy who literally worked in the southern jungles everyday for nearly 4 decades and who knew many accomplices who did the same, that statement was striking to me.
Yep. Snakebites are rare in the US. Truly accidental snakebites are even more rare. Most of the bites happen because somebody is being a dumbass. Accidents do happen though. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine reached to get something out of a shed and a copperhead bit him on the thumb. Those things happen, but it's usually some drunk idiot intentionally messing with a venomous snake.
As far as the OP's question - I've wondered myself. I think most snakebites probably wouldn't go through a tough boot. But, it would depend on where on the boot the snake bit, how large it was, and how serious it was about biting you. I've seen photos of snake fangs and hypodermic needles side by side under an electron microscope, and the fangs were cleaner and sharper. If you think about it, it wouldn't be all that difficult to push a hypodermic needle through most boots.
That said, when I go out looking for rattlesnakes to photograph I'm usually wearing low hiking shoes and shorts.
This post was edited on 2/28/19 at 9:09 am
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:42 am to Teague
I had one really close call, but it was during a golf round, not hunting/fishing. I went into some waist high ragweed looking for my ball and felt something squish under left foot. I looked down to see I was standing on a very small cotton. He was trying like hell to bit me, but he just didn't have the body length to reach my ankle. I got lucky it was so small. Didn't play the next three holes.
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