snake boots or gaiters

[cramerhunts]

Snake boots/gaiters? Yeah my girlfriend wants some too.

 

 

Laugh all you want but they've saved my a$$ more then once. When you're loaded down with cams and other gear and clawing your way through the thick stuff then all of a sudden whack a snake nails you in the shin, not real funny. I've had more close calls such as that then I care to think about and most of them have been down in your neck of the woods.

[Arizona Griz]

timber rattlers do exist in AZ, but for the first time last fall i finally got to see a tiger rattler for the first time!!!!

 

Timber Rattlesnakes are not found west of Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_horridus

 

[catclaw]

I know I spend as much time out as anyone and I have stepped on snakes, walked over them, stood next to them and have never been bitten. I have never worn snake boots or gaiters nor do I know anyone who has. I have never heard of anyone in AZ being bitten by a snake while hunting except on the hands when they were messing with them.

 

I don't know if I am lucky or just not paranoid. Maybe if I chased antelope more I would feel differently. I have had a twin-spot crawl into my sleeping bag in the Chiricahuas and not bite me- I'm with Lark, I guess they must be afraid of getting a bad taste in their mouth. Only time I have been bitten is when I was 18 and teasing one in the highway.

 

Gaiters just look way to uncomfortable for me.

[mp_moody]

Do you guys think chaps would work for snakes also? I spent too much of the last year picking out jumping cactus spines from my legs. Snakes are of really no concern because I can just work around them. What about the extra heat? Having a pair of gaiters or chaps on top of heavy boots/wool socks/cotton pants is going to make it pretty soupy down there.