[Calvin Locke]

Global warming.

(kills off the readily available rodents as a source of food, leaving only the more deadly predators to survive...)

[MIchaelTArchangel]

He was unexpectedly bit(ten). No fooling? It would be a real story if he had been bitten expecting to be bitten.

[KC Burke]

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.

[Vendome]

Less than 10 people die each year from snake bites, out of some 30,000 bites.

[righttackle44]

Two kinds of snakes I don’t like: live ones and dead ones.

[M Kehoe]

In the fwiw dept, when rattlesnake is fried it tastes like alligator.

5.56mm

[Stevenc131]

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.

[doorgunner69]

“Why did it have to be snakes?”