Who's has been hit in the snake boot?

[Bily Lovec]

Ive been hit three times, one cotton mouth, one rattler and one copperhead.
none hit higher than 6"-9" from the ground, the rattler dry bite me and the others hit my boots or pants w/no punctures.

[U.S.ArmyRetired]

I have not been bitten yet. I just hope that if I ever am that my CAbelas snake boots work.

[Cable]

Going to Cabela's to buy snake boots right now!

[Cable]

Posted this in another thread but we found this one in Jack CO last weekend. Click to play.

[AtTheWall]

Had a 2ft cottonmouth strike my right foot, wearing Converse (Chuckies) tennis shoes, out small game bowhunting along a Brazoria County bayou as a teenager. Following a cattle trail parallel to the bayou, slow stalking for nutria, when I felt a thump on my outer foot as I stepped down. Darn fangs got hung up in the ribber edge\sole area on the toe and he couldn't pull his fangs out of the rubber of my Chucks. He started winding up my right ankle trying to use his body for leverage to pull his head and fangs out but.......I popped open my knife and cut his head off before he could. Had he managed to pull free..wrapped up my ankle in coil...I'm sure I would have had a few follow up bites on my foot or ankle before he dropped.


A few weeks later, my best buddy had the same deal happen to him...hunting the same area, a flooded rice field on one side and the bayou on the other. My buddy Steve was wearing those old "waffle stomper" hiking boots and this cottonmouth hung up on the rubber sole. Steve had a shotgun and I yelled at him to toss it to the ground...which he did (so he wouldn't freak and blow his own foot off) and grab the knife and cut him away. Steve pulled it off but in the same token...he was freakin big time LOL!

We still talk about that summer.

Had another scene where the bayou would flood and we would jump off an old cattle crossing bridge into the rolling water.....about 30ft drop or so....and we needed the flood to cover our dives. I remember a friend ran and jumped, not knowing a bunch of baby cottomouths were floating on top, caught up in the current, landing right in the middle of them. Talk about screaming when he surfaced LOL!!!!! We yelled at him to dive back down and swim for his life LOL!

[bobc]

AtTheWall... Your story about jumping into the mess of cottonmouths sent shivers down my spine!

[Texas Grown]

After clearing the leaves and small brush/vines out of the way and off the flore inside a natural ground blind, I set my bow-saw down on a 5'-9" rattler while on my knees next to him. Didn't realize it till I stood up and looked down at the ground around me at the blind I just made . I must have cleared the leaves off him too . He was curled up and nesseled down in the dirt, with his head down under, trying to stay cool that after noon. I just stepped away and went and got my axe from my truck. Cut a small mesquite, then poked him so I could see where his head was. Then pinned him down and got my saw back . Still have him at the house here on the wall, and his younger brother, a 5'-8"-er from the same ranch in Jack County


Never been struck or bit. But have had plenty of "Close Encounters of the lowly kind"

[sharkhunter]

I was coon hunting one night. Had the light off listening to the dogs running and felt something hitting my boot. I was standing on a 4 ft Stumptail. stood on his head with the other foot and cut his head off with my oldtimer. Then cleaned my shorts out...

[recar]

AtTheWall... Your story about jumping into the mess of cottonmouths sent shivers down my spine!

makes me think of the scene from Lonesome Dove. That always makes me shiver.