I cannot speak for Will, but does the word idiot come to mind. No its not smart. And my friends ask me why I keep taking those chances. The answer is simple, it does not hurt. And that's the truth. So far, no pain.



On the otherhand, scorpions hurt like heck. So it must be the kind of pain.



I wrestled in school and afterwards, College and AAU. And completely dislocated both knees, my left knee pulled out of socket twice. One elbow completely hyper extended The back of my hand was touching my the back of my shoulder, and none of that hurt either, and I just kept going. I broke three ribs in a take down tourney. And wrestled in another tourney two days Later, swelling and such was a pain. So theres something wrong with me.



In all cases, it was my fault, I challenged the snakes and they won. hahahahahahahahaha I won more then I lost and by a lot, only losing at this actually counts.



The interesting part is, I took two bites at home, I was envenomated with both, and nine bites in the field and only one envenomation.



And no, I do not think I am immune or whatever, I was lucky and do not want to keep testing that. A lot of my peers also take bites and in most cases all were lucky(mild bites). Most just keep herping(a bunch of boneheads)



I have really fast hands and when young had no problem snatching rattlesnakes behind the head. I soon learned that was not good for them. As we all should know, live by the sword, die by the sword. I took my losses.



In the field we have all stepped on, sat on, leaned on and rolled around with rattlesnakes, and so far, no one was bitten that way. I now wear my motorcycle boots(tall) while hoggin, as I have stepped on three mohaves(in thick plant cover).

Cheers

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