Posted on 10/04/2014 8:38:04 AM PDT by george76
PHOENIX - Ethan is lucky to be alive after a scary run-in with a rattlesnake while on a hike last month.
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Since the bite, Ethan has been in and out of the hospital receiving treatments for an infection and to have dead skin removed from the wounds.
It hasn't been an easy ride, but both Ethan and his father agree it's a lifelong lesson and that you don't truly know how good you've got it until you experience adversity.
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(kills off the readily available rodents as a source of food, leaving only the more deadly predators to survive...)
If he hadn’t been hiking that far in with an organized group, he would have probably died or been much worse as seven hours for extraction is pushing the limit.
Just day hike trails will give you a rattler in this valley.
YEP...only rattlesnake wranglers are “expectedly bitten”....
Less than 10 people die each year from snake bites, out of some 30,000 bites.
Two kinds of snakes I don’t like: live ones and dead ones.
On top of that, a Mojave will usually not rattle until AFTER it strikes. I had one in the yard three summers ago, so my eyes are always looking down when I cruise around the yard.
In the fwiw dept, when rattlesnake is fried it tastes like alligator.
5.56mm
My dad killed a 77” eastern diamondback in NW Fla years ago. That’s not close to the record length for that species, but at 6’5” it was pretty impressive. The problem with a snake that big is you get a massive dose of venom if you get bitten.
“Why did it have to be snakes?”
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