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No! You have nothing to worry about, they are not the boogey man in the closet! They don't want to have anything to do with you.
That is sort of a weird post. Unless Muck makes snake boots those Mucks won't be much more protection than your moccasins. I would prefer the Mucks for scent control and protection from other things like ticks, chiggers, briars, but they aren't going to help you with snakes.
I'm considering just hunting in moccasins this year
Who here has actually had an encounter with a snake either biting them or attacking them and having a protective measure that saved them (ie mucks, snake boots, gators, etc.)?
I imagine it's few if any, but I could be wrong. Te reason I ask is I'm considering just hunting in moccasins this year and going for my mucks if I need them to retrieve something.
If you've had an experience please share, what time of year an terrain?
That is sort of a weird post. Unless Muck makes snake boots those Mucks won't be much more protection than your moccasins. I would prefer the Mucks for scent control and protection from other things like ticks, chiggers, briars, but they aren't going to help you with snakes.
I used to wear snake boots sometimes. They were horribly uncomfortable (these were slip on's not the lace up kind) and after getting wet a number of times they no longer fit so I got rid of them. I wear Lacrosse knee boots while deer hunting. I would be a lot more worried about snakes if I hunted south of the Fall Line. I don't believe we have rattlers in Coweta where I hunt but we do have copperheads and cottonmouths.
I've been stomping around through the woods for over forty years without any snake boots, including in places that many local folks won't go because they're "too snaky." I've encountered quite a few snakes, but never been bitten so far, nor have I ever run into a venomous snake that was aggressive toward me unless I provoked it first. One might get me tomorrow, though. But a tree could also fall on me, I could be stung to death by hornets, fall off a rock cliff, get struck by lightning, blown away by a tornado, swallowed in an earthquake fissure, get gored by a wounded deer, ate up by hogs, shot by an idiot, killed in a wreck on the way to the woods, drowned in a creek, mauled by a bear, taken down by a pack of rabid black panthers, kidnapped by bigfoot, or any number of other things. I tend to just watch where I'm putting my feet and hands, and not spend my time outside living in fear worrying about what could possibly happen instead of enjoying being out there. The potential dangers of the outdoors are one of the things that makes them interesting and keeps us on our toes. I wouldn't want to live in a safe, sterile world with no danger.
HuntinDawg89- You have plenty of Timber rattlers in Coweta. You've just been lucky enough to avoid them.
... One might get me tomorrow, though. But a tree could also fall on me, I could be stung to death by hornets, fall off a rock cliff, get struck by lightning, blown away by a tornado, swallowed in an earthquake fissure, get gored by a wounded deer, ate up by hogs, shot by an idiot, killed in a wreck on the way to the woods, drowned in a creek, mauled by a bear, taken down by a pack of rabid black panthers, kidnapped by bigfoot, or any number of other things...