Ever been bit bya snake?
 

I've been hunting for the past 2 years and havent seen a single snake. I live in western Ga. However, not wanting run my luck I've been thinking about picking up some snake proof boots. Do any of you use these? Has anyone ever really needed them or been bitten? Are the $45 boots as protective as the $150 boots?

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You get what you pay for, as in the boots, and you pay for what you get, being the deer. I would invest in some snake boots if your wandering that far off the map. Can get kind of sticky when you run into a mess of the bad ones.[:@]

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Do you wear rubber boots. If so that is all the snake bite protection you will ever need.

When I was a kid my brother and myself lived in Katy Texas and 5 -6 foot long cotton mouths were pretty common in the ditches and rice fields. Any way my brother stepped on one of these big boys one day while picking up golf balls in a ditch and it bit him hard on his rubber boot twice. They did not come close to getting through.

A good rubber boot is pretty dang tough and pretty hard to penetrate. Even the biggest of snakes we have in America does not have the jaw strenght it would take to bite through good rubber boots.

I will also say that that is the only time we have come close to being bit by a poisonous snake. When it was actually stepped on or we actually handled them.

We handled hundreds off them while growing up and if left alone they won't even bother you. I have handled a number of rattle snakes as well and same goes for them. If you leave them alone they will leave you alone. 99% of the time if they are aware of you they will flee the area.

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dude i live in southeast tx and can definitly confirm the cottonmouths. i wear uninsulated lacrosse boots and have been tagged 4 times in them. only one time did any venom get through the boot. luckily the fangs didnt even scratch me. i have been a waterfowl hunting guide for ten years and swear by lacrosse. good luck huntin and if you dont see many snakes give them a try they are super comfy.

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Haven't ever run iunto this problem here in Canada,but I guess when hunting in the States this problem could be common.

nubo

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Should have been for Nubo; Anybody been bitten by a goose?

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I live in Louisiana, Ibowhunt in the swamps and lowlands andI never hunt without my snake boots. Rocky "Low Country" I was wearing a pair of lacrosse boots when i got bit by a verry large stumptail moccassin about 7 years ago.....spent several weeks in the hospital, thought I was gonna loose some toes, most of my hunting season was shot, and have a real pretty scar fom it[:-

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i was bit as a little kid. me (being a dumbass) i see a snake and i thought it was a black racer. turns out it was a water moccasin. it bit me in the hand in the skin between thumb and index. didnt break skin though[:-]

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Do Black Snakes count? If they do, then yes I have.

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i too live in west georgia, specifically southwest. the other day while i was scouting i walked up on a nice 4 foot long diamond back rattler. it was not fun. i didnt even realize what it was till it was only a few inches away from my foot. i thought one of the tractors slipped a belt or something so i did not pay too much attention to it. luckily, i think it had just finished shedding so its eyes were still a little hazy. thank god it couldnt figure out what i was so it just sniffed at me. i have never been so afraid in my life. i am now going to always wear snake-bite proof boots as im sure the next time i run into that guy it wont work out in my favor.
raim

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I was bit by a water moccasin about 8 years ago while conducting military training in NC.

I wasn't playing with it nor did I step on it. Water moccasin can be very agressive and territorial. If I hunted in moccasin country, I would wear the boots.

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I've seen more snakes while fishing then I have during archery season. I've found that in most cases, if you give them room they won't bother you. Stepping on or near one can be quite the different story. Colonel Sam Colt to the rescuuuuuuuueee! [8D]

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I also live in Southeast Texas, and while clearing a couple of shooting lanes on my lease last week I stepped right on top of a cottonmouth. I was wearing my Rock Low Country boots just for that reason. They worked great thankfully

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My mother-in-law can't believe I truck around in the woods, without at least a pistol.

When walking into your stand, hopefully your almost at stalking pace. Slow movement and they won't strike. A fast movement next to them and they sense heat with their tongue, and it is on! Stepping right on one will get you bit!

Copperheads are the ones I worry about, when trucking through the woods to check the scene, and prepare for deer season. They have killed 6 copperheads in their garage, and one 8 foot rattler that was huge. They walked right by it 2 times, within a foot, thinking it was a dirty towel. They blew the sheetrock out of their garage with that one and some 4 shot!!LOL!!


Sportsmans Guide had Browning 17" snake proof rubber boots at a really reasonable price below $50.

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Instead of the boots, consider buying a pair of snake proof chaps. They run about $60 and unless you are in a bad place you can wear your normal comfortable boots. They really do a good job in protecting your legs from briars also.

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Yeah, I got bit once. Poor snake died in less than an hour;)

Seriously, I agree with the rubber boot thing. Had a big copperhead strike my foot once, didn't even scuff my boot though. And mine go up to my knees. Other than that, I usually do good by watching where I put my feet and hands!:)

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I been bitten a few times but never by a snake I surprised in the wild but it was always a snake I was tring to catch or a snake that bit through a pillow case. I use to be an amature herptilogist in capturing reptiles for the state of florida back in the 70's and 80's and been nailed by 4 rattlesnakes and 1 cottonmouth and 1 gator in my reptile career. The cottonmouth bite was the worse as infection set in on my left index finger and just about had my left hand amputated but I do have a left index finger that is there but its like a dead finger with no feeling present. I use to use the durango snake proof boots that had a bronze mesh inside the lining, these boots worked as I would pin a many of mocassins and rattlers by stepping on them and pen them down until I could get a snake hook to pen there head down, I could actually feel the psi of the bite assicioated with a diamond back bite but not so bad with moccassins. As far as using rubber boots go, get yourself a hyperdermic needle and see if the rubber boot will stop the needle from penetrating, if it doesn't stop a hyperdermic needle it won't stop a snake bite. The moccasin/cottomouth, rattlesnake and copperhead are a hemotoxin venom and attacks the blood cells in your body and death is very rare any more but it is accompanied usually by amputation/and or severe tissue damage in the vacinity of the bite. Snake boots will give you added confidence to hunt areas or follow a blood trail when in snake country, especially when you can't see where you step, the only disadvantage is maybe the weight, but toughen up, you can overcome that, as opposed to a bite, it feels like a hot knife working its way to your heart, kinda like thousands of bee stings. Don't take a chance, get yourself the boots if in poisonous snake country. ;) Bobby