Ever use your snakeproof boots?

[go_deep]

Do you have snakeproof boots or gators and had a snake strike them? What was the result, besides needing clean underwear?

I've been stuck at once and the rattler hit a yucca plant and got deflected never making it to me. I was at work and was not wearing any snake proof gear.

 

[JimP]

Back in my working days I was a lineman for the phone company and wore high top climbing boots. One day I came down a pole and at the bottom of the pole I felt something hit my leg. I looked down and saw a piece of sagebrush move and then I felt it hit my leg again. I looked and saw about 8" of a 2-3' rattle snake sticking out from under my boot.

I don't know who left the fastest, me back up the pole or the snake after I got off of him. Then when I was about 10' up the pole I threw just about everything that I had in my tool bag at that small patch of brush at the bottom of the pole. I never did see that snake and when I came down I actually jumped about 6 or 7 feet out into a open area that I could see.

But when I head to Arizona in Feburary for the javelina hunts I am aware of the snakes and know that most will either be dened up or not far from it but I am aware of them. Even when we hike into the den site that we know of I don't worry too much about them.

 

[go_deep]

Back in my working days I was a lineman for the phone company and wore high top climbing boots. One day I came down a pole and at the bottom of the pole I felt something hit my leg. I looked down and saw a piece of sagebrush move and then I felt it hit my leg again. I looked and saw about 8" of a 2-3' rattle snake sticking out from under my boot.

I don't know who left the fastest, me back up the pole or the snake after I got off of him. Then when I was about 10' up the pole I threw just about everything that I had in my tool bag at that small patch of brush at the bottom of the pole. I never did see that snake and when I came down I actually jumped about 6 or 7 feet out into a open area that I could see.

But when I head to Arizona in Feburary for the javelina hunts I am aware of the snakes and know that most will either be dened up or not far from it but I am aware of them. Even when we hike into the den site that we know of I don't worry too much about them.

Just about the same scenario for me, going in to hook a pole and just happened to look down to see the rattler deflecte off the yucca that was between us. Took me a minute before I could move on, little bugger next rattled either.

 

[buckbull]

We used to have more timber rattlesnakes than we do now. I did buy a pair of the snake proof chaps, but never put them to a test on a snake. They do work well if you need to work your way thru multiflora rose or thick brush rabbit hunting.

 

[Yell Co AR Hunter]

I had a 6 foot timber rattler strike a 5 gal bucket I was carrying once. I caught movement and swung the bucket and it struck the bucket. If I had not it would have done no good to have snake protection as it would have hit above the knee. I blew its head off with one lucky shot from my 911 45. It measured 6' 3" with out the head and had 18 rattles.

 

[go_deep]

I had a 6 foot timber rattler strike a 5 gal bucket I was carrying once. I caught movement and swung the bucket and it struck the bucket. If I had not it would have done no good to have snake protection as it would have hit above the knee. I blew its head off with one lucky shot from my 911 45. It measured 6' 3" with out the head and had 18 rattles.

WOW!!

 

[mosquito]

You guys are scaring me . I don't like snakes. I really don't have any fear of being eaten alive by Grizzlies but snakes bother me ... weird how the mind works

 

[JimP]

Sometimes you have to look up instead of down all the time.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Sometimes you have to look up instead of down all the time.

My son and I watched a rattler slither up a mesquite tree we were sitting under for shade while bow hunting. We were sitting there for quite a while before it decided to move.