My cousin stepped on one Turkey hunting a few years back.
Said he knew what it was the instant he felt that solid but soft
round thing under his foot.
"Jumped like a cat, screamed lik e a girl" his words.
Lucky it was chilly, it wasn't fast enough to bite him.
Surprises me way more people don't get bitten spring Turkey hunting.
That's honestly when I see them most, in the spring. My buddy had one wake him up while he was nappin under a tree, crawled across the top of his boot laces. I kneeled down next to one setting a turkey decoy out once, used a 5 dollar shell on his ass.
Gotta be real careful sitting in a pop up blind in October archery and Nov deer season in Texas, especially if near any structure. They like to crawl in with you in on cool evenings. They can ruin a good popup.
A big king snake crawled over my boot one evening and almost ruined mine.
There were some sheets of tin roofing scattered around the old dilapidated above ground rock and cement water tank below the windmill that once drained to distant water troughs. I guess it was well fed as the next spring when snake hunting we got 16 rattlers iirc from under those roofing pieces.
