several narrow misses, but none have drawn blood, YET!! Hate those suckers!
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I've been lucky. I've literally killed hundreds of rattlers that I saw first. Been hit by two that saw me first. Both times I knew I was taking a chance walking in knee high brush where I couldn't see the ground. Both times they hit me on the jeans/boot top and didn't get connected up to meat. The second time was a little scary. He didn't rattle but I heard his scales rub together as he struck and felt him hit me hard about 6" above the ankle...I standing broad jumped about eight feet and his fangs were tangled in my jean cuffs...that six foot snake came with me as I jumped. I basically shot him off my leg when I landed. He left a big wet spot of venom on my pants leg.
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I used to work on a corporate-owned cattle/quail hunting ranch. I had to mow a fenceline with a DR walk-behind mower. For some reason that day, I put on snake leggings, which I hardly ever did. Low and Behold, got bit in the leggings by a 4 1/2 foot rattlebug.
Let's just say that when me and the brush mower were done with him, the biggest piece of his former 4 1/2 foot self was no more than a few inches.
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