… or direct hits

… put them in here if you got them

my youngest used to grab every snake he saw. Got bit on the web of his hand by one non venomous one didn't slow him down on it. He was about 8 and going to grab a snake that he found in the yard when moving a corn hole board. luckily his brother about 10 at the time stopped him and said I think that's a bad on better ask mom. It was a copperhead. Wife and daughter killed it and put it in the outdoor wood burner since it continued moving it's mouth after head was removed and she didn't want the kids geting bit by a dead snake if they messed with it.

Only Snake story I have where I was l seriously concerned

…. Know several that’s been bit by copperheads … usually on the hands or feet/ankle if not wearing boots

I had one close call, but the snake wasn't dangerous. Does that count or not?

No venomous snakes here, but I had the bright idea to catch a 5+ foot water snake once, except I didn't see the extra loop of snake behind a log, How I learned how big it was!, lol, it lunged and missed my face by a couple inches. Set me back on my butt,

…. Venomous is preferred but let’s hear them all lol

We used to have our family reunion down on Degray Lake. We would camp, swim, fish, and shoot the bull. One night a few of us decided we were going to catfish all night. I needed to stop by the cabin as we were headed down to the lake to get something. Well I didn't have a flash light and they were already down at the lake. No problem I could make my way down the trail in the dark but found out I couldn't see the snake in the trail. Got to spend the next 45 minutes listening to my uncle's debate on whether it was a snake bite or not since only one fang penetrated the other hit my shin bone. They were from the Depression Era and weren't going to put my folks in debt over a possible spider bite. lol. My uncles finally figured it was a snake bite since I was swelling pretty good. Took me to the hospital in Arkadelphia where I got to spend the night. Spent a week on crutches. Pretty sure it was a copperhead since we had seen a few around the place we were camping.

I used to catch large numbers of snakes to sell, to the pet trade. Friends and I used to go on trips just to catch herptiles. I would take the bite, if necessary to catch a snake, especially when grabbing a handful at once. I once grabbed what almost looked like a bouquet of 26 live garter snakes and 1 dead one, sticking out of a Winter den hole in late February. I got nailed grabbing 4 black racers from under a piece of plywood at once. I never got bit by anything that did any serious damage. Most of the snakes that bit me didn't even break my skin.

I used to hate the crocodile hunter because he was always getting bit when he clearly didn't need to. I eventually realized he was getting bit on purpose, to keep the viewers entertained. He was much more careful with venomous reptiles.

Ohio doesn't have many venomous snakes. We intentionally looked in areas that had recorded populations, with no luck. I spent many thousands of hours catching snakes and only ever saw two poisonous ones. The first one was a very large timber rattler, that someone ran over and cut the tail and head off at the entrance to the Mead Experimental Forest. The second was a female copperhead, that my friend Leroy found sleeping on a mouse nest, under a piece of tin. I was catching an Eastern fence lizard and Leroy started calling for me to bring a forked stick. I bagged up the lizard and broke of a short forked stick.from a brittle old branch.

When I saw the copperhead, I told Leroy, "Let me get you better stick.". He grabbed the stick I had, pinned down the sleeping copperhead's neck and dumped it in the pillow case I held open. When we got back to Leroy's house, I opened the pillow case and dumped it in a 10 gallon aquarium. That copperhead was the pissiest snake I've ever seen. It would strike the glass over and over when we were close, leaving venom all over it.

I took the copperhead out and was holding it and it almost stuck me. I didn't know they could put the fangs out the sides of their mouths.

Leroy was an alcoholic and lived with his mom. He passed out sitting at the table, the aquarium was on and his mom thought he got bit. She called the paramedics, who brought the police and more. They ended up calling a herpetologist, who came up from Kentucky, to take Leroy's snake.

Keith

When I was a kid I was at a friend's ranch and caught a beautiful prairie rat snake. After a few minutes it was calm so I was letting it move freely through the hands. I don't remember what spooked it, but it bit my cheek and wouldn't let go. My friend thought he should yank it off. I yelled at him before he ripped it off my face. Once the real threat (my friend) was addressed, we carefully pried its mouth open and it was a nice pet.

Thats one of the few times I couldn't use water to make a reptile release.

Ok, venomous.....My father in law was building a house in Arizona, opened the garage and a rattlesnake went for him and came just short of his richard....carpenter came over and shoveled the snake dead...then said "good thing it didn't get you, I wasn't about to suck the poison out!"

…. Yall livin dangerously men…I like it

Bow hunting about 10 years ago and mid day found a large open area with no grass etc. to rest for an hour or two mid day. After I woke up I got up and as soon as I moved I heard a rattler. My head was looking around as much as I could without moving. I couldn't see the rattler no where. My pack and bow where about 6 feet away and that rattler curled up on the shady side of my pack.

I finally figured out I should be able to move to one side that I could see well enough and nothing was there. To make a long story short I finally ended up spotting it and it was history after that.

I have had a half dozen close calls with almost stepping on them. I never go in rattle snake country without snake guards/chaps and a terk pole ever!!!!

When I was younger my friends went fishing over the weekend with one of the Dad's, got all set up fished the next day and had enough of sitting on the bank !!

Not knowing of all the excitement that comes from doing that fishing all day !!

We went back to camp and we all had BB guns and decides the threat of squirrels and birds were more important, and made
off into the side hills looking for that one shot, one of the guys started yelling snake, and of course the whole patrol showed up in quick double time and cornered it !

All rolled up and rattling that tail end like a buzz saw, I knew it was a biter if molested, having been around much bigger and more aggressive ones when held up ones when I lived in Arizona, but one kid wanted to mess with it and dang near got hit on the first try !!!

Which swiftly got me fixing his education right quick , mean while Mr. Rattler had found a crevice to slide up into, which, soon become a battle ground of all sort of volley's from from those BB guns, that snake was swiss cheese by the time every one had reloaded twice, LOL I though how are we going to explain getting hit in the eye with a BB, felt them bouncing off every thing !!

Well we dragged what there was left of him out, not a large one either maybe two feet, and brought him back to camp, arguing about who was the main killer, the Dad about had a heart attack when he finally got back with no fish, LOL and said he hollered for us several times, with new adjectives I had not known you could put together that way, with his talk of staying around the camp followed with more of them words !! LOL

Never have bothered any of them since, even though I do use them in my leather work, I buy or trade work for them when ever the chance arrives,, but wow that was a time being little and our first killing LOL !!

…. I’ve too many to list but the scariest one was crawling across a pine that fallen over a creek… I stuck my face around a pine bough and there coiled up was a cotton mouth with his jaws spread wide right in my face …could smell his breath….guess I figured I couldn’t pull back in time without being bit so I held my face still and reached back… twisted a piece of pine bough off and knocked him into the water from his blindside

… if that had gone different I wouldn’t be as pretty as I am now lol

… get in here Mr. Dobbins and Jtrap … I know yall have a few

I got bit by a prairie rattler at a snake round-up in Sharon springs KS about 20 odd years ago. got one fang in the pad of my thumb. Had venom all over the side of my hand, so knew I didnt get much. Was not a pleasant experience. Was only about maybe 14 inchs long. Hard to control the head on those juveniles.

I'm the aggressive one!

.. you know you’ve had a close call or two uncle Swamp ! Lol

First time I ever saw a rattle snake he was curled up in a prairie dog hole, I tried to stab him with a arrow, when he rattled I jumped and ran like a Yankee at Chancellorsville. Thus ended my snake catching career

I’ve had to kill 2 rattlesnakes with a chainsaw. One near Tiller, Oregon and the other near Oakhurst, California. You’d think a power saw would be loud enough and create enough vibration to make them leave long before you see them, but apparently there’s a few stubborn specimens out there. 2 less now