So This Is Why You Don't Want to Be Bitten By a Snake

[Dino]

so what kind of snake is that Hos ?

they little ones are the worst

they carry the same amount of venom as the big ones do

I have hike in rattle snake areas for 20 years never even seen a rattler

 

[jobberone]

I'm not saying It dint happen but I've heard this story before......
http://www.snopes.com/critters/snakes/waterski.asp

I'm guessing every kid has heard this story at some point in time at some location on earth. Heck, I even saw it happen on Lonesome Dove. The truth is that snakes disperse fairly quickly from any nest which is of course good survival strategy. The only time snakes congregate in mass is to hibernate and for some species to mate. Cottonmouth don't congregate to mate and I don't really know their hibernation habits.

 

[silverbear]

I know but they are also less aggressive, than rattlesnakes. I've also never seen the effects of a coral snake bite I have of rattlesnake bites. Chances are you'll live but you could lose some fingers.

The most aggressive venomous snake in America is the copperhead...

 

[silverbear]

They don't always rattle.

Quit fishing under trees.

Actually, they never rattle if they've made their minds up to strike... rattling is a warning mechanism, telling everybody to back off...

 

[silverbear]

I wouldn't be in that boat anymore. :eekmouse:

Yeah, I can swim... the boat would smell really bad after I crapped myself, anyway...

 

[Yeagermeister]

Yeah, I can swim... the boat would smell really bad after I crapped myself, anyway...

I can't but I'd learn REALLY fast :laugh1:

 

[Kingsmith88]

The most aggressive venomous snake in America is the copperhead...

I don't believe that. They don't have a warning system and are camflagued well. Likely more incidents of accidentally picking them up. I think they also resemble some water snakes and corn snakes too so that can help with misidentification and confusion

Welcome wildlife website says it is the cottonmouth although it stipulated that it only bites when forced. In fact it also said no venomous snake in the US was aggressive to humans. I think most of us are a product of what we have heard and our few experiences with snakes. I know when I was a kid my grandfather told me black snakes and rattlesnakes were mating making a new venomous snake. I believed it for awhile, but he was wrong. I never once said anything to him about it though. He was an old hillbilly, and hunting guide. I respected him to much to correct him.

 

[a_minimalist]

Not to derail the thread topic but does anyone know if spider venom does the same thing? I can deal with snakes but not spiders. I'm petrified of them.

 

[5Stars]

During my time in the Vietnam war, the Viet Cong would hang either arborial vipers or Malayan pit vipers from trees on trails where grunts would walk.

Although I was lucky enough to never see one, there were instances of solders getting bitten in the face or neck as they walked through the bush trails.

Below is a list of other bobby traps that were used:

"Many of the materials for the mines and booby traps were of U.S. and Australian origin. These included dud bombs, discarded and abandoned ammunition, munitions and indigenous resources such as bamboo, mud, coconuts and venomous snakes."

Also, I have eaten rattlesnake two times. One was when I was a Boy Scout on a 5 day hike through the Gila wilderness in New Mexico. The Scout master shot one the we stumbled across and we skinned it, cleaned it and cooked it three ways. One way like a hotdog, another wrapped in foil with butter and put under the coals, and the other fried in a pan. Both tasted OK (i know, like chicken).

The second time was in West Virginia at a bar/restaurant where I ate 6 pieces of rattlesnake and got a free t-shirt that said I ate rattlesnake.

Snakes are actually more scared of you than you are of them. Stay away from them, and they will stay away from you.

 

[Kingsmith88]

Not to derail the thread topic but does anyone know if spider venom does the same thing? I can deal with snakes but not spiders. I'm petrified of them.

Depends, I know or at least understand the Brown Recluse eats away at the flesh. You aren't likely to die from either snake or spider bite.

I also ate rattlesnake once, the bones got caught in my teeth. Seemed like it took forever to get them out. It wasn't horrible.

 

[a_minimalist]

Depends, I know or at least understand the Brown Recluse eats away at the flesh. You aren't likely to die from either snake or spider bite.

I also ate rattlesnake once, the bones got caught in my teeth. Seemed like it took forever to get them out. It wasn't horrible.

Interesting, I know I've seen some disgusting photos of spider bites but wasn't sure if they could have the same effect as a snake or vice versa.

 

[arglebargle]

Snakes don't bother me much at all. I respect the danger though. Living overseas, we had a cobra that nested in a tree in the front yard. I never saw it when it was not high tailing it for the tree, to get away from us.

Also used to catch rattlesnakes in the back yard/orchard area of a house out in the hill country in Texas. I'd usually just get a bucket, lay it down on its side, and then chase the rattler into the bucket with a rake or hoe. Plop a piece of plywood on top of the bucket, then haul it off to the creek for release.

I am sure it will continue to seem like a great idea up until the first time I get bit....

 

[notherbob]

Living out on a ranch in central Texas, I kill anywhere from two to eight rattlesnakes a year. Once I opened a garage door a one had been laying on the other side so that when I raised the door, it fell of onto my chest and rolled all thge way down my body off onto the ground at my feet where I recovered my composure faster than the snake and stomped it to death.

Another time I went outside at night to pee and I found a nice spot and commenced to relieve myself and all of a sudden I heard that unmistakable sound a couple of feet in front of me - I was peeing on a rattlesnake. Talk about something that will cut you off in mid-stream. That rattler was obviously pissed off about being pissed on and sounded off real loud about it. Ever since then I have carried a flashlightwhen I go out at night.

I killed two rattlers mating once. Now that's really noisy. I even shot a rattlesnake out of a tree once (the tee went up at an angle rather than straight up.) On two separarate occasions I have gone into the garage to get a tool and encountered three rattlesnakes. Working in the garden once a rattler charged me and I had to dispatch him with a steel fence post.

Out here they are just part of the scene and you simply have to be on the alert for them.

I've heard a few scattered coopperheads but I haven't seen any nor have I seen any cotton mouths. We also have a faie amount of non-venomous snakes.

During the warm months I usually see 2-3 bull snakes a month but we do not harm bull snakes.

 

[silverbear]

Welcome wildlife website says it is the cottonmouth although it stipulated that it only bites when forced. In fact it also said no venomous snake in the US was aggressive to humans.

Having had an encounter with a VERY aggressive copperhead, I have a problem with their claims... my dog got it before it could get me, but it was sure as hell coming for me...

 

[MapleLeaf]

Living out on a ranch in central Texas, I kill anywhere from two to eight rattlesnakes a year. Once I opened a garage door a one had been laying on the other side so that when I raised the door, it fell of onto my chest and rolled all thge way down my body off onto the ground at my feet where I recovered my composure faster than the snake and stomped it to death.

Another time I went outside at night to pee and I found a nice spot and commenced to relieve myself and all of a sudden I heard that unmistakable sound a couple of feet in front of me - I was peeing on a rattlesnake. Talk about something that will cut you off in mid-stream. That rattler was obviously pissed off about being pissed on and sounded off real loud about it. Ever since then I have carried a flashlightwhen I go out at night.

I killed two rattlers mating once. Now that's really noisy. I even shot a rattlesnake out of a tree once (the tee went up at an angle rather than straight up.) On two separarate occasions I have gone into the garage to get a tool and encountered three rattlesnakes. Working in the garden once a rattler charged me and I had to dispatch him with a steel fence post.

Out here they are just part of the scene and you simply have to be on the alert for them.

I've heard a few scattered coopperheads but I haven't seen any nor have I seen any cotton mouths. We also have a faie amount of non-venomous snakes.

During the warm months I usually see 2-3 bull snakes a month but we do not harm bull snakes.

...I would build a new garage. One that is a little tighter sealed.

Also I would probably avoid pulling the little fire hose out in the dark in the back 40.

Isn't there some sort of hilarious movie scene about getting bit by a snake on your johnson?

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I'm sorry but I don't much care at all what they do for anything. I kill any of them I see. They're dangerous and they're basically the form of evil. I mean the Devil himself took on the form of a serpent. That should tell you all you need to know about snakes.

 

[Sarge]

We have 12 or fewer deaths in America a year because of snake bites. They are a critical part of our Eco system. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone.

Bites can be devastating though especially from rattlesnakes.

OK - I'm sold - I'll leave them alone.

 

[Sarge]

There are copperheads and rattlesnakes in New Jersey.

This is true.

 

[tomson75]

I'm probably the luckiest SOB on the planet....I've been bitten by a Cottonmouth and a Copperhead. Both bites where when I was 12-14 or so, and both bites resulted in......nothing. I'm not sure how or why, but I suffered no ill effects whatsoever...outside of being scared ****less. The copperhead was a juvenile, too, which makes me even luckier. Snakes don't bother me much, but these days I'll pass on any confrontation s with the venomous varieties. I figure I've pushed my luck enough.

Wasps, bees, and hornets on the other hand.....are devils.

 

[Route 66]

I think if being chased by a Blue Racer were true, that would be intense.