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Joined: Mar 2015
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12 point
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12 point
Joined: Mar 2015
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antivenom is pretty expensive and sometimes it takes a LOT to counteract a bite. Yeah that and risking losing a foot or leg should motivate one to wear boots or chaps and watch your step. We're spoiled here in South Florida in that Miami Dade county has a venom response unit that responds throughout the state to get anti venin to victims at the hospital. But if you're bit out in the wilderness and have a long trek to a hospital you risk losing a limb even with a venom response unit in your region. If the anti venin works you also have to worry about infection from those rat and frog eating bastages.
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 7,159
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jan 2011
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I use snake chaps. I assume they're as reliable as snake boots. I've only come across one venomous snake in the woods. It was a small cottonmouth moving down stream. Went between my knees as I stood in the water. Now I keep my head on a swivel.
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Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 6,197 Likes: 27
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 6,197 Likes: 27 |
I got some bogg diamondbacks and my only complaint with em is that they are so loud...anyone else have a problem with their boots slapping the back of your calf? The old lacrosses I had were not snake proof and I never had this problem..(maybe they aren't broken I good enough?? Idk)
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Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 659
4 point
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Joined: Aug 2012
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I have worn them since moving to Alabama in 2012, my wife started hunting and she now wears them. I would much rather deal with hot sweaty legs and/ or wet feet than a bite and trip to the ER and stay in the hospital.
Do the hard right verses the easy wrong
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Joined: Sep 2004
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
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I got some bogg diamondbacks and my only complaint with em is that they are so loud...anyone else have a problem with their boots slapping the back of your calf? The old lacrosses I had were not snake proof and I never had this problem..(maybe they aren't broken I good enough?? Idk) thats what I was wearing when I was bit, fang went straight thru that Lacrosse grange boot, maybe 4" from the top.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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