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Posted on 7/20/24 at 3:33 pm to TheOcean
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Do you have health insurance?
I do, but not certain if a bite would be covered.
Posted on 7/20/24 at 3:39 pm to Turnblad85
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Did you mean 10-50%? Seems like 1000% more lethal would be probably death and 5000% more would be certain death.
According to the book I read, literally 10-50x more lethal. Of course, the testing is done on mice, not humans, but it does say 10-50x more lethal. By comparison, a coral snake is stated to be 4-5x more lethal than a Western Diamondback and 11x more lethal than a Copperhead. And the most potent Mojaves are supposedly more potent than corals. There's also variability with how much venom is injected. A coral holds about 20 mg of venom and 4-5 mg can kill a human. A Western Diamondback packs 200-300 mg and a big Eastern Diamondback can pack 300-400 mg.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 12:19 am to TigrrrDad
What kind of lizards did you come across?
Posted on 7/22/24 at 8:01 am to TigrrrDad
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the snake had plenty of room to wheel around for a hit. Was that not a concern?
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You have to read the snake’s attitude and body language.
I was wondering the same thing.
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The guy I was with the rest of the trip had recently put one this size around his neck - I probably could have with this one, but I certainly wasn’t going to.
Nooooope
Posted on 7/22/24 at 8:43 am to GRIZZ
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What kind of lizards did you come across?
Don’t know my Texas lizards that well, but I think they were…
Great Plains skink (adult & juvie)
Crevice spiny lizard
Canyon lizard
Texas banded gecko
Greater earless lizard
When I get time I’ll do a whole thread with everything we found - think it was 9 lifer species for me on the snakes alone.
Other sites….
herd of elk
big male elk
huge elk shed antler
javelinas
hog-nosed skunk
ringtail
tarantulas
scorpions
aoudads
a bajillion does & bucks
This post was edited on 7/22/24 at 8:48 am
Posted on 7/22/24 at 11:55 am to HomerRudd
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Thanks for sharing! Reminds me of a book by Harry Crews, Feast of Snakes, about a Georgia Rattlesnake Rodeo.
Out of a body of work notorious for gruesome story telling Feast of Snakes may be the most gruesome of Crews work. If you ain't read Crews you ought to....
Posted on 7/22/24 at 1:47 pm to TigrrrDad
Saw a massive one south of San Antonio as well, in Pearsall, not quite this big but he was 25-30' away from me and I was still shitting my pants. You have some balls bruh.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 1:51 pm to TigrrrDad
You crazy!
Posted on 7/22/24 at 2:00 pm to TigrrrDad
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Do you have health insurance?
I do, but not certain if a bite would be covered.
I would probably check on if insurance will pay for bite treatment if you are purposely handling a snake. I've seen some pretty crazy numbers for rattlesnake bite treatments, and insurance will be looking for any reason to get out of that payment.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 6:09 pm to TigrrrDad
Posted on 7/22/24 at 8:51 pm to TigrrrDad
Surprised you didn’t see any Horned lizards. Were you far enough west Texas to see any Collareds? Those are fine!
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:27 pm to TigrrrDad
I realize they’re not venomous but did you happen to run across a Texas Indigo while you were around San Antonio?
Posted on 7/23/24 at 1:21 am to GRIZZ
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Surprised you didn’t see any Horned lizards. Were you far enough west Texas to see any Collareds?
Was hoping for both but no luck. The guy I was with got both last trip.
Posted on 7/23/24 at 1:22 am to BobABooey
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I realize they’re not venomous but did you happen to run across a Texas Indigo while you were around San Antonio?
Cruised a road at night in their area but they are found more often in the morning, and usually in cooler months.
Posted on 7/23/24 at 6:35 am to TigrrrDad
I live in a new neighborhood in south west Florida. My neighbor took this picture two days ago. It was right beside her pool fence. Man that thing scares me. I walk alot trying to lose some weight and we have trials all over the woods here. I never thought those frickers were here.
Thing was very big.
Thing was very big.
Posted on 7/23/24 at 10:14 am to LanierSpots
The Eastern Diamondbacks in Florida are a lot less common than the Western Diamondbacks in Texas, which are pretty widespread. In April I hit a hot spot for EDBs in South Florida for 2 days with no luck, but after seeing a dead one on the road we stayed an extra day and went all in on finding one - and finally did. The big ones are becoming much harder to find.
I’ve gotten a little bolder in my free handling over the past few months.
I’ve gotten a little bolder in my free handling over the past few months.
Posted on 7/23/24 at 11:13 am to Wavefan
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For those that don't understand, you either have a fascination with snakes or not. No real explanation.
I mean, there's middle ground. I'm fascinated with snakes. I'm not as good as Tigrdad (or probably you either) but I can positively ID a vast majority of NA snakes 95+% of the time. I like to read and learn about them and I'd say I know way more about snakes than most of the population. But I have absolutely 0.0% of a desire to play with them. I take the neaturewalk stance with snakes.
Posted on 7/23/24 at 11:47 am to MikeyWM97
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if you are purposely handling a snake
I would hope Tigerdad would be smart enough to not tell the hospital that he was playing with rattle snakes for fun. You were hiking in the dark and came across a snake that bit you. Doubtful they will research your online posts to find out you're a snake handler.
Posted on 7/23/24 at 4:45 pm to TigrrrDad
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This thing was so impressively massive and heavy - I just couldn’t resist.
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