Not many people can say they’ve been hit by a rattler and even fewer can say they’ve been hit 4 times. My first bite was a big rattler hit me right behind the left knee, second was in the right shoulder, third was in the right butt cheeck and the fourth was my left index finger. No helicopters or ambulances just drove to the ER. I’ll kill around 75 rattlers here on the ranch before it starts getting cold and they den up. That seems to be the yearly average.
Since you are so experienced with rattlers I'll ask you if you have ever seen what I saw. I was walking back to the camp from the tree where I had been sitting waiting for a big buck (he never came).
I startled the snake who was heading down the trail toward me. He jumped up in the air and started wiggling while he danced around on his tail. He was not a huge snake only about 3 to 4 feet long.
One of the famous western artist (can't think of his name right now) did a painting of Indians and rattlesnakes and the snakes were doing what I saw the snake do. Have you ever seen this snake action?
How did one get you on the shoulder?