Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Wyoming Rattle Snakes - how much danger?

Add this to the list of things I worry about for you....

I'm from Texas Born and Bread, lived here all my life. We do have big serious snakes here, though thigh size s a little bit of a stretch. I've seen 'em big around as my forearm but I haven't see a python in a zoo big around as my thighs.

But our snakes are truly dangerous if you step on one or get too close, so I do exactly as you describe, I beat the grass and every where I walk if the ground isn't clear to walk on. And to say a snake would rather get away from you, well that may be true, but it doesn't always happen like that. Some times the snake doesn't know you're there until you're almost on top of him. If you get close to a 6 foot snake he can strike out at least 3 feet. If he's a foot and a half off a trail and you startle him he can strike at you and give you a bad bite. Snake leggings to the hip are the way to go, especially where there there are snakes known to be five-six feet long. and a snake that big is going to inject a lot of venom if he bites you.

Welllllll.......


I can say that Pacific Diamondbacks can be a little more ouchy than Prairie Rattlers, Copperheads just dont want to be stepped on, and Moccasins just don't give a schitt...

Texas toast?

One fang in a foot was enough for me. Boots and pay the f attention since then and in the future.

You play with nasty snakes, travel internationally to hot zones, get targeted and almost blown up by terror organizations, train dogs to do all manner of things we don't know about (Wounded Warriors - yeah, wink, wink... "Fido, take this C-4 over to Achmed's hovel and drop it off...")

No, Ingwe is just another ordinary guy that used to sell Berrettas and Glocks down at the store...... (Cue: "Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap...")

MOI....?




I'm just a harmless old man with a puppy dog....

I’ve lived in Wyoming for 13 years and never seen one, yet. I spend a lot of time outdoors. There’s a section of state land across the road from me that I walk my dog on every day and it’s pretty scrubby. The guy I bought my house from said in 7 years he saw only one rattler. But the big mountain I see from my back porch is named Rattlesnake Mountain, so there’s that.

Uh, you got blood on yer hands........

and

What a great looking boy.

Slave


P.S. I'm talkin' 'bout the dog, old man.

No venomous snakes here. I do hunt WY for antelope and had a question......do leather boots stop the fangs? How about cordura boots?

The dog bit me.


we were playing.


Its what I do....