Well...I've got an 8yo that is almost always with me, he wasn't with me this day. He'd have been out in the foodplot looking for stuff and would have gotten popped on the hand. No telling how many times we have walked past this snake in the past. I'm not taking any chances if its somewhere we frequent. My experience with timbers is they won't mess with ya unless you pretty much step on them. I picked up a shed once, took one step and got popped in the snake boots by one. He was hid well, never rattled. I knew what it was as soon as he hit me. half mile from the truck, 45 minutes from the nearest hospital and by myself. Puts things in perspective.
We have a ton of hogs now and don't see near as many as we used to. And from what I hear....this is one reason they aren't rattling as much.
