Learned something about snakebite

[doc540]

Never had a fear of snakes.

Respect, yes, but not fear.

Well, unless one got in the boat with me.

Had pet snakes as a kid.

Around age 19 I helped a guy in the biology lab milk several big rattlers.

Like the cobra mentioned above, nothing prepared me for a big rattler raising up to strike and almost looking me level in the eyes.

After we milked them, (I'd seen it on Wild Kingdom so I wasn't about to admit I didn't know how), we fried them up and chowed down.

Worked for a crop dusting outfit driving a loader truck.

One of the pilots was always playing practical jokes on everyone else.

Found out he was afraid of snakes.

Caught a fat, stinky cottonmouth with a pair of flag sticks.

Scared 'ol "Les" so badly he almost fainted.

Started staggering backward all stiff legged with both arms stretched straight out in front of him.

Other pilots loved it.

 

[Straightshooter2]

We live one mile from the Atlanta city limit in a suburb. Since I've been caring for my elderly mother, I've killed two copperheads in her yard and one in my neighbors (at their request). We have woods behind the house and at the end of the dead end street plus a pond down at the end. So here we are in the middle of town and I don't mind the coyotes in the woods, rabbits, possums and possible deer. But I've seen enough snakes in this yard that I keep my Blackhawk loaded with CCI snakeshot.

CW