I wear snake boots when I'm scouting or working in the woods mostly for the protection from briars and chiggers. I usually run across rattle snakes a couple of times during the year, both diamond backs and canebrakes. Sometimes I'll cross up with a cottonmouth, and rarely a pygmy rattlesnake but almost never a copperhead.
I've owned and worn out three pairs of snake boots over the last 40 years and never seen a snake while I was wearing them. I guess those things work pretty good.
