Snake bite through boots?

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I just got a pair of the LaCrosse Alpha Snake Proof boots and was comparing them to my OG Grange Boots and Insulated pair. I can Def. See a snake making quick work of the Grange, but the thickness of the insulated pair is questionable.

Regardless, I'm keeping the Snake Proof ones because FRICK a snake when I can't see it.

But has anyone ever been or known someone personally that was bit through their boot?

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Thank God I haven't or don't know of someone that has.

I have a pair of Irish Setter Men's Vaprtrek.

The funny thing is most people get bit on the hand.

I use snake chaps when needed, but I've always heard that other than a rattler, North America's venomous snakes are hard pressed to puncture a decent quality leather boot and all but the biggest probably can't puncture decent quality rubber boots. I don't want to find out.

I remember reading somewhere that a huge majority of snake bites- especially copperhead bites- happen to turkey hunters on their hands and legs, etc. when they sit down against a tree.

Ever since reading that and before I started using a cabelas tactical tatr vest with the kickstand, I'd always take a quick glance before I'd sit down.

It'd have to be a mamba jamba to penetrate Grange rubber boot, jeans, sock and skin. But I reckon it could happen. A close encounter will darn sure put a damper on my walk in the woods though.

I wear the Danners and they are comfortable and not hot. Haven’t been tested but I’m comfortable with them.

You go to the hospital?

It's not necessarily so much the material of the snake boots, but more the thickness and height. All but the largest of venomous snakes, when startled into a defensive strike, will usually strike below 18 inches. Hence, the greater height of boots. Likewise, all but the largest of venomous snakes won't have fangs long enough to both puncture and deeply penetrate snake boots.

So basically, you're pretty much expected to notice a 5 foot moccasin, a six foot timber rattler or a 7 foot diamondback. Those are plenty big enough to hit you above the boot. A little extra reassurance doesn't hurt though, for smaller snakes that aren't so noticeable

how many of ya'll actually know anyone personally that was bitten by a venomous snake in the US..... that they were not handling or trying to mess with?

The 2 of the 3 people I know were bitten because they wouldn't leave the snake alone...

one stepped on it barefoot -

one idiot(sorry if you are reading this.. .nah.. no I m not) got bit by the head of a snake he had just cut off when he picked up the head...

A buddy got bit by a water moccasin in 8th grade near Indian creek. He hauled arse (big no-no) and then had a long drive to the hospital. They had to make 5 or 6 large incisions in his leg to relieve the swelling. Some intense scars and a lot of pain.

We were all creek hiking and he wa me the last one...jumped up screaming from a pool of knee deep water and we looked at his ankle and saw a small puncture. Somebody said “if it was a snake thee would be two holes” and then somebody else said “look!” And we saw a second hole over an inch away. Then all hell broke loose. It was just like something you’d see in the movies.

I know literally tens of people and none have ever been bitten by a snake. So, yeah.

Land surveyors walk through the stuff, whether they want to or not, and it's part of the job description. It's impossible to be productive and also watch your every step. Boundary surveying production= traversing and traversing means trucking it as much as possible while being accurate and eliminating error.

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.