[muawiyah]

One of your problems with these very poisonous snakes is "blow back" if you scatter them with a shotgun.

Just a very minute quantity of that venom getting in your eyes or nose is going to kill you.

I don't think that's much of a problem with any of the snakes I know best ~ rattlesnakes and copperheads.

[org.whodat]

"blow back"

The only thing I ever saw from shooting a snake a close range with a shotgun was "blow away".