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

[wittenacious]

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.

Luck (or providence) sure seems to have been working in your favor, that's for sure. Man oh man! That or you were just too mean a kid to die, lol. Either way, good for you.

I chuckled as I read this: "...but these days I'll pass on any confrontation with the venomous varieties. I figure I've pushed my luck enough." Liked how you put that. After your childhood run-ins, I can see how you'd feel that way. I sure would.

 

[Yeagermeister]

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.

Damn man glad you are ok but that snake falling on me would have been an instant heart attack for me plus needing a clean pair of undies. :laugh1:

 

[trickblue]

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.

It's because you wear a ring of garlic around your neck at all times... it doesn't just protect you from vampires...

 

[trickblue]

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.

Clark Kent?

 

[Dino]

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

been there done that when I was a lad

been stuck at think it was a cotton mouth just hit my boot

 

[notherbob]

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.

It may depend on the type of snake and the kind of spider but most snake venom travels in the body via the lymphatic system rather than the blood stream, likely because it may coagulate the blood. The ancient ones taught that applying crushed raw garlic to a snake bite would lessen the effects and promote healing. Bites by different kinds of snakes require different kinds of antivenom and antivenoms are short-lived and expensive - about $1000 per vial and at least two are required.

Brown Recluse spiders have a necrotizing agent and it is a different kind of venom than Black Widows have, which I think is more of a neurotoxin. There are a lot of both kinds of spiders around here so you have to be pretty careful where you put your hands and feet. We have a lot of those big wolf spiders and I did get bitten on the shoulder once but it just gave me flu-like symptoms for a few hours.
I used to be petrified of spiders but deliberately forced my self to get close to them and eventually lost most of my fears though I don't want to touch them.