Will rubber boots protect against snake bite?

Hi Thumper, this is Debbie at Bountiful
Are you saying there is a season for squirrels! I'm not into squirrels but that sound odd to me. I guess next you'll tell me that I can't fish in my own pond except in season.

Snakes, I have lots of snakes mostly rattlers and cooperheads. I let a few snake hunters on to the property to get the rattlers. I stepped on a copperhead once and didn't get bit....although I did get a severe panic attack!

I wear rubber boots all the time because I thought that would help but I guess I'll be looking for snake boots. The copperheads that managed to get into my tack room mid summer are almost eye level..I guess the boots wouldn't help there.

Debbie

State wide in here in Oklahoma the squirrel season starts May 15th and runs through Jan. 31st. Supposedly the peak offsprings born is in Febuary and it takes something like 8 weeks before the momma squirrel leaves the young at the den trees to survive on their own. Now some states such as the lower southern states the squirrels may have two bearing seasons. One in the spring and one in the fall. It all depends on your states geographical location and the type of weather seasons as to when they are raising young ones. I have occasionally shot a big female squirrel in the summer time or even in the very late summer time that was still nursing some young ones. But for the most part most of my squirrels harvested in the spring or summer are usually young tender squirrels that you can fry in the frying pan. Most usually when fall arrives most squirrels harvested are usually too tough to fry and must be stewed. So if you want a tasty dish try early season squirrel hunting.

I can assure you, I KILL more squirrls with my car tires than most hunters do with bullets!

If that happened to me, I don't believe there's any real doubt what my socks would be wet from, and it sure would be "none of the above".

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All right call me niave, or dumb if you will, but why would you want to kill squirrels??

We dont have too many of those here in KY, probably becouse people are shooting them! But I miss the little suckers, from MI when I was younger.
We had one dog, and one squirrel who loved to try to kill each other. Bloody hilirous. We used to sit and watch for hours, that squirrel would jump outa the tree behind the dog, and jump back in the tree when the dog got close!

Anyway, I always thought that rattlers where the worst of the mix, that their bites where stronger? Had a neighbor get bitten by a copper mouth while mowing the lawn she didnt know it until later. Her foot started swelling up, and she couldnt figure out why. But then this is the same neighbor who mows her lawn in thunderstorms at 10 at night!

Yeah, for some reason the city folks call squrils a rodent, and gets treated like all rodents!

Several states have a summer squirrel season. Opening day use to be as big of a day as deer season but not a whole lot of people hunt them especially in the summer. Summer hunting is more difficult with the leaves being on but I always found it a great challenge and it helped me develop good stalking and woodcraft. A great dad and kid activity too. Summer squirrel season is about the only hunting season open in the summer.

Why hunt them? Same reasons as anything else. A challenging quarry that is excellent table fare. I love squirrel roasted over a hickory fire and basted with BBQ sauce. Gonna have to wait until the end of May to have it again. Freezer is all out of squirrel and the season doesn't open until the 28th.

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I like the young ones best if fried like chicken. My kids love squirrel and dumplins. I could just about bribe them into doing anything if I tell them I will fix them some squirrel & dumplins!!!!

Here in Oklahoma the daily limit is 10. And you can only have 20 altogether at home in your freezer or wherever you store them. I don't know why they have such a small limit when they are encouraging more people to squirrel hunt since not many people do it anymore. Looks to me if less people are hunting squirrels then they should at least raise the limit on how many you can keep in your freezer.

Rubber boots - no.
Read an article years ago whee an old timer took sections of stove pipe to use as
a shield inside his lower pants let from the ankle to the knee.
Would not recommend it today with the more effective products available.

My Dh was fishing & stepped over a log right on top of a cottonmouth. He said that it hit him so hard that it nearly knocked him down. He was wearing rubber boots & it left little holes with venom running down from them 1/2 inch from the top of the boots (about 17" high), but they didn't go through.

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In your own pond probably not, in any one elses.. yes, depending on the kind of fish.
It's a good thing my dogs can't read and don't have to have permits.

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