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Originally Posted by Jay Gardner
A snake that big has to have quite a bite. Would snake boots be enough to protect from a bite and would they be tall enough?
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I believe good snake boots would turn the bite, and unless the snake was on top of a mound or bush or something then tall enough. I have seen many dogs cattle and people and horses snake bit, and very rarely see a bite above about 10 - 12” above the ground. I have been hit hard twice, both snakes, a western diamonback and a Botswanan puff adder hit ankle high. Tha rattler, a healthy 5 footer felt like being hit by a wild pitch (maybe a change-up), the puff adder more like a fastball. I did not see or hear either snake before they struck. Interstingly, the rattlesnake hit me on a whitewing dove shoot in Mexico, on a 100 degree day. I was wearing shorts, and a pair of cabelas 8” lace up hunting boots, not snake proof, but they successfully turned a direct strike.
Was wearing a pair of all leather gokey snake boots in Africa.
Needed a change of shorts both times.