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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 50046" data-attributes="member: 389">DM, If you want a pair of snake gaitors to drag along, let me know.  I have a set my former in-laws bought for me back when their daughter still liked me.  Worn, not tested.Part of why I have them is that almost 10 years ago I was out there hunting during early bow season (about now).  Sure enough, watched a nice buck and handful of does bed down on the upwind side of a butte about a mile and a half from the truck.  So I plotted a path to come around the back side of the butte and put myself within 10 yards of the bugger.  Fast forward to being on top of the butte and sneaking over to where the buck was bedded, I had to step over a (maybe 18 inch) ledge as I scanned for antlers.  No sooner than I stepped over the ledge and I felt a very sharp and stinging pain on the back of my calf.  I was like WTF????   Still moving in slow motion, I peered over the ledge to see what the hell was going on and the one thing that IMMEDIATELY stood out was the 4 or 5 rattle of a rattler protruding from underneath my boot.HOLY FRICKING SHIT, just my luck I had stepped directly on a rattler and the SOB must still be chewing on my calf based on the pain.  Problem was, my leg was up against the ledge and I couldn't see the bastard.  So I reached the conclusion that I was going to have to reach down and grab the snake to get it off of my leg.  At this point, I could see my truck a mile and a half away on top of another butte, this is going to be a very crappy walk out by myself, it took me almost 2 hours to get this far.  Anyway, I slowly pulled my leg away from the ledge as I looked for the damn snake.Long story...short, I had the great misfortune of jamming my damn leg onto a large prickly pear cactus.  Even as I saw the cactus, I could still see the rattle poking out from under my boot.  What are the odds?  I was standing on a perfectly coiled up skeleton of a rattler.  I sat down and took 2-3 minutes after that heart stopper.  The buck?  Never saw him again.So final thought, I have gaitors and I have worn them on occasion when hunting alone in the early season.  That feeling of seeing the truck so damn far away after having been 100% sure I'd just gotten bit was damn awful.</blockquote>

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