Originally Posted by AFTERUM
how long would you have to live after the bite???


gabby's hold the distinction of being one of the only venomous snakes that even after they had their venom glands removed have killed people......believe one of the people was a gal in Colorado.....anyways they have the longest fangs of any snake.....atleast one gal had the venom glands removed to make it "safe"......snake struck her in the arm, force of the large snake hitting the arm with fangs sunk deep completely tore open the artery in the arm and she bled to death before getting to the phone to call for help....

drop for drop the venom is about like a eastern diamondbacks.....not good....


A serious student of the "Armchair Safari" always looking for Africa/Asia hunting books