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Originally Posted by Cliff_W140
I've survived a bite, and had a friend in high school that did not, from a Diamond Back. If I see a poisonous/threatening snake in an area that I plan on inhabiting or returning to I'll kill it every time. If this makes me small and ignorant I guess I have to accept that. I'd hazard a guess that being rushed to a hospital for anti-venom and loosing a friend in the process might alter your outlook.
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Your assumption that I've never been envenomed by a snake is correct, though I have been bitten by a cottonmouth. I was just freaking lucky.
You are wrong in your assumption that I have no friend who have been bitten. In my lifetime I have had 2 close friends severely bitten, also by cottonmouths. Both of them survived though one suffered permanent nerve damage to his hand and lost a lot of tissue. One of those guys is a physician and the other is a field biologist. Neither of them goes around killing venomous snakes and they feel about it much as I do.
I know people who have been maimed and a couple who were killed in traffic accidents. I have yet to shoot a car.
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