Copperheads are like second to Water Moccasin when it comes to “Kill me First”
Rattlesnakes aren’t mean on purpose, they just hide very well and “situations arise”
Never had a Rattler chase me, Cotton Mouths and Copperheads, yep they Will chase you and DO (and they can be fast).
Coral Snakes are the most poisonous and they are just small so you don’t know that they are there even though they are brightly colored ... largest one I have ever seen was all of 14”
I never had any snake chase me but my husband did. I heard him yelling from the garage and when I went out there he was on top of the truck because a water moccasin chased him.
I was sitting in the yard with my boys while they were playing in their sand pile. A coral snake literally flew out of the grass into the sand pile. I killed it with one of their toy trucks.
I have been confronted with rattlesnakes and all kinds of snakes mostly all poisonous and I killed them all for the safety of my children . Not sorry.
If I had known how many snakes were on that piece of wooded property where we built our first house I never would have built there. As it turn out only a dog was bitten.