How many of you have those snake-proof high tops of one brand or another?

Has anyone on this board ever "avoided" a snakebite (i.e., been bitten in the boot by a snake, and thus unaffected by the snake bite) because you were wearing those high tops? (Tell the tale. I'd love to hear about the experience!!)

I haven't hunted turkeys in a lot of dangerous snake habitat, to my knowledge (Southeastern Minnesota, Northeastern Missouri, Western and Eastern South Dakota, East-central Kansas), although I believe the (rare) poisionous snake can be found in Dakota and Minnesota, so I don't have a pair of high-top snake boots and question their necessity and utility. It appears to me that they may be more a "tradition" than a good practice or necessity. What do you southern snake habitat turkey hunters think?

(I know you are all going to tell me that you'd rather not risk the snakebite and so will keep on wearing the hightops--and it is true that it is better to be safe than sorry and all that--but when I hunted quail in Texas snake country, we wore chaps or hunting pants that had 1000 dernier cordura lowers, not high-tops.)

Just asking what you all think. . .