One killed here was written up in the newspaper and my children's doctor called me about it. She said they ‘chew’ and to tell the kids if they get bit to jerk it off of them.
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Yup —
They chew - nerve poison
Twenty minutes I have been told
Snakes usually avoided us as we walked in tall pasture grass
At night - Fridays with 6-8 hunters in a pasture - I’d say they were not out