Strange news about a snake bite.

[rwsmith]

I will tell you a good story that goes with several days on morphine. I had a nurse that I really wanted to get a sponge bath from until I sobered up and thought, "Man what were you thinking?" She was big, fat and ugly?

I did see how people could become addicted to the stuff, it feels good. The only problem is it will lock your bowels up like Ft. Knox!

Yeah, I've heard of addicts in history somehow living with extreme constipation. Makes you wonder how they accomplished anything but necessity probably calls for extreme measures to deal with it. I think a few supposedely stroked out in the effort.

 

[ladder13]

Copperheads around here. I keep my hands and torso out of pine straw and shrubs. We have an excellent EMS system and many hospitals within 5-30 minutes away. I'm staying put.

 

[Jerry in SC]

Copperheads around here. I keep my hands and torso out of pine straw and shrubs. We have an excellent EMS system and many hospitals within 5-30 minutes away. I'm staying put.

Same here, but we are real careful in the spring and early fall.

Russell snake boots were the first thing I bought when I moved to SW Georgia in the late 60's. There were some monster rattlers there. The farm ponds were full of moccasins and banded water snakes, fishing at night with hula poppers could be exciting….

 

[Golphin]

Whatever happened, with about 6-7K bites per year and about 5 or 6 deaths per year in the U.S., fatal snakebites are extremely rare.

Most time those that are bit are messing with the snake. Either trying to kill it or catch it.

 

[03hemi]

I love rattle snakes myself.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Plain to see those that grew up around " Sylvester no shoulders" and those that didn't. Anywhere around them Have a snake bit kit handy, wally world has them……

My snake kit a pistol of some kind.........Hope never need the bite kit.

 

[CalifEd]

Unfortunately, in Texas we have 15 species of venomous snakes; rattlesnakes (9 species), coral snakes (2 species, I think), cottonmouths, and copperheads (3 species). None are aggressive to humans, but they will strike if they feel threatened.

What, no poisonous spiders, scorpions, or lizards?

Seems a good way to clear the area of City Californians that move there.

 

[Mr. Vito]

Growing up in NYC I had no personal experience with snakes of any kind. During my first military assignment as a newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant I was stationed in El Paso, TX where I decided to teach myself to ride horses. I enjoyed many a long ride out into the desert north of El Paso, and on the advice of others carried a handgun in a western style holster just in case I encountered a rattlesnake. I felt like a Western movie cowboy out in the desert, and maybe I just was not observant enough but despite numerous rides like this I never once saw any snakes at all. I shot a few cactuses and bushes, but no snakes at all.

 

[IAM Rand]

When I was younger I had multiple snake bites.

Regretted it the next morning

 

[JcMack]

I sold a light weight Charter Arms 2.5" .44 to a guy in Texas. He said it was for his wife. I talked to him on the phone and I said that sucker is quite a handful. He told me she needs it loaded with snake shot she when she does her gardening.
Only snakes by me in NW Indiana are two legged kind from Chicago.

 

[kozmic]

I bred snakes for 25 years with my son. No "hot" snakes; kings, corns, rats, ball pythons and others. I've grabbed enough to know they are faster on a strike than I am on a retreat if handled improperly. Grabbing poisonous snakes is not how you want to test your wrangling abilities or show off to friends. I've seen a few poisonous snakes and reptiles in the wild. They are fascinating, but I never had the urge to pick them up. Just a few pictures from outside their "strike zone" and let them be.
Ultimately, all snakes do provide a great service in nature and don't deserve their reputation as killers and evil serpents.

 

[gym cat]

What great service are they doing in Florida??????

 

[LVSteve]

What great service are they doing in Florida??????

If you are talking about the Asian Pythons there, don't forget it was naked apes that introduced them.

 

[Sevens]

I am in awe that a 25-year snake breeder refers to them as poisonous. That's like long time hardcore gun guys calling them clips instead of magazines.

 

[TX-Dennis]

I am in awe that a 25-year snake breeder refers to them as poisonous. That's like long time hardcore gun guys calling them clips instead of magazines.

True, but most people use the term poisonous when they really mean venomous.
And, I have a good friend who has been shooting all his life. Yes, he says clips rather than magazines.

Yes, I know better than to start a sentence with a conjunction, but I did so anyway. Why? Who knows.