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What was your close call with........................ Snakes..

you about the Copperheads and Cottonmouths. I have had Cottommouths come right up the creekbank after me. They are bold and give no ground,and when you are in their territory you better spot everyone of them that you may walk up on too, or you will likely get hit. Been wearing leggins for many years but my biggest fear is while I am down on my knees digging and getting eye to eye with one that I did not see. Copperheads are almost impossible to see sometimes until you are "Too close "..Have to be extremely careful in places where the grass and underbrush is thick, and even then like the Copperhead that slid by me,there are always those that just come traveling out of nowhere. I almost stepped on 2 last Spring that were stretched out and on the move.
 
jim!..isn't it kinda funny how "soiling" oneself
makes ya feel so much younger again!.(not such a bad thing!..really!)
(lol!)

(h.h!)
j.t.
 
I think there's been a couple of cases recently where coyotes have attacked hikers - what's up with that?! Seems i can recall somebody talking about it at work. Although we don't have many coyotes around here YET, wild dogs are certainly a concern too. In the lower southwest states are the wild hogs that can easily outrun a man - have you seen Hogzilla?

Walking down a road in the woods during the deer rut last year, i apparently got in between a buck and his does. I could just barely make him out standing on the left side of the road. He snorted loudly, hooved the ground, and bellowed loudly - so i quickly fell back along the road, and out of the woods from the right came two does. Very glad i wasn't wearing musk aftershave!

There is a resident black snake about six feet long [ i call him Oscar ] that i sometimes encounter in the woods near my house. If i get too close, he'll coil up and start hissing. He's a cool snake, so we don't bother him.

I think my worst fear is to fall down into an old well out in the middle of nowhere, coming across several in my travels. I will stack all the loose brush and tree limbs that i can across the top of it so others will avoid it and it's been landmarked. Good thing most of us have detecting pardners! Thanks for reading, and good luck.
 
Some great and funny stories, here's mine:

1. I was fishing below a damn in Arizona for Flathead catfish. I was using a big surf rod (the cats get big) and grabbing at a stone to keep it secure with against another rock. I picked up a small stone and immediately felt a burning sensation in my little finger. I knew I had been bit by a scorpion. A few seconds later I saw it crawling on the next rock. It was the small and dangerous kind but we were far from a hospital and I hadn't had too much of a reaction from bee stings. Suffice to say, I'm happy we brought the cooler full of beer... on ice! I had to keep my hand in there half the night or the pain got unbearable (much worse than a bee sting). But in the ice, I didn't feel hardly anything but the pressure from swelling.

2. I was fishing in the before mentioned spot and fell asleep on the rocks on my sleeping bag. Yes, the same rocks basically as mentioned in one. My feet were hanging over a big rock. In the middle of the night I heard some kind of insect making a buzzing sound. My friend woke me and said, "Sounds like a rattlesnake." I said no and went back to sleep. He said it again and this time I checked in the hole where my feet were hanging over. Sure enough there was a newborn rattler in there. I got our fishing net and removed him and placed him in the bushes. That would have sucked had he bit me in the ankle or leg...

3. Me and my friend were fishing in, no lie, rattlesnake cove in a popular Arizona lake. It started to get really cold at night like it often does in the desert, so we went searching for fire wood. We found a enough sticks to make a fire. During our search I reached for a stick and when I was about 3" from it my friend said "Stop, that is a rattler!". I then realized it. It took all kinds of prodding to wake it up as it was cold. I probably could have picked it up and it wouldn't have done anything.

4. Delivering some Italian food for a restaurant in San Diego and I was halfway across a big yard when a roughly 100 pound German Sheppard attacked me. He ran full bore at me and all I had was a medium pizza in my hand. When he was about 10 feet from me I said, in a really soft voice "Hey buddy, how ya doin." He froze for a second and turned his head as my calmness clearly took him off guard. I kept speaking soft like that and asked him if he wanted some pizza, the whole time fending him off with the box. He never did get to bite me as the owner was there in about 15 seconds. The guy walked up and said "I can't believe he didn't kill you. He is a vicious dog." I said "Hey Mister, you know you are lucky that I've had bigger Sheppards in my life and was able to be calm. Another driver would have been killed. Next time you order some food, lock him up."

5. I was walking with my surfboard in San Diego along the cliffs. I saw a stick laying in the trail and just before I stepped over it I looked down. It was a small 3 foot rattlesnake basking in the sun. I was shocked to see a ratler there because of all the houses but there it lay. I used my board and just pushed it off to the side. I wonder if it would have struck at me had I did try to step over it.

I should say I'm very comfortable with animals, had big boas and German Shepards growing up, so all of the above situations were pretty easy for me to remain calm, though the dog one was the scariest for me. Well, that and seeing how I'd react to the scorpion bite!
 
Now I'm not one for telling people what to do.. But those rocks..I would stay away if I were you.. :shrug: Something is telling you. Luck can't last forever. LOL

Neat Stories..Hope we get many more. I know there are a lot of them out there. A neat dog story. When I was looking for parts for a 1957 Chevy I rebult I had a junk yard dog encounter.. Might tell it if eveyone wouldn't mind. It has nothing to do with detecting..
 
Nothing in the way of an old coin would ever get me out in an area like that.:rofl:
 
Man, that took some serious guts. I don't think I would have been able to face down a bull with just a stick, even a young bull. I would want somebody like you at my back if I ever got in a scrape, that is for sure.
 
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She told us about Black snakes chasing them when they were kids.. They would chase the snake a bit..then the snake would chase them..almost like a game.. I always wondered if that was a true story or a kids vivid imagination..any body have any added info to this happenng or not..
 
We haven't had any rattler reports for years around here. I think if any their mostly South or near PA Line.. What we are starting to get is Bears roaming around..
 
Hey Elton, well, I don't live in Arizona anymore, I left there for San Diego in 94!' and I left San Diego for German in 2002. No rattlers or scorpions here.. just winter!

Tell the story, mine weren't detecting stories but so were some of the other stories here and it was for fun. More like danger in hobbies/passions. After all I left out my surfing stories :surprised:
 
Not too many snakes or boars up here in Oregon but I do have a little story about hunting a park up in Washington. I was invited by Widebody here on the forums to come up and compare my MXT pro to his XLT, we hunted the better part of the day at the park close to his place and kind of moved our seperate ways in the park, I went out to a park bench under a lone tree in the middle of a large field in the park and thought I would try my luck there. I got a nice strong quarter hit so I set my MXT and all my gear down and started to cut a plug...then something hit me in the side of the face...and again in the chest..then in the back of the head..then on the hand it was almost like someone was thumping me with there finger and then I heard the buzzing. I looked up into a bold faced hornets nest about 18" long and a good 10" in diameter about 4ft above my head and started running...I ran for about 200 yards (they chased me all the way) then once they gave up I was faced with the fact that in my haste to vacate the area I had forgot to grab my detector, pin pointer, and digging tool. I had to wait a good 15 mins for them to calm down then I had to do a full speed driveby and grab all my gear. I'm still amazed I can run like that...I haven't in years :chase: and I never did find out what that quarter signal was.......I'm still wondering
 
Elton, I have to admit that there are a couple of places at an old swimhole on a creek, where I found some pretty good coins 35 years ago that I finally gave up to the Cottonmouths. It was just no fun to go there because the critters were everywhere. Most folks would think winter time would make it more safe,which it does, in many places, but in my neck of the woods after a frosty morning and the sun is on the log, if you go to looking real good you are apt to see a big critter on the log also. Being slow and drowsy don't mean they can't still nail ya. Just be real careful, find yourself that "comfort zone" and go diggin. The most dangerous critters I know of are the 2 legged kind, and there are more than enough of them to go around in some places.
 
One things I learned years ago.. If you see a wasps floating around and if they had not hit you. Just freeze for a slow count of 10. If they had not hit by this time they have not found you just move away slowly. My late uncle would slowly walk up to a nest of a hundred Yellow Jackets reach up behind it and pick it like apple. Carry over to a bucket of used motor oil and dip it like Ice cream cone. Not a one would leave the nest. Then again I had man that worked for me who could not come in 10 feet of a small nest without getting jumped.

With living in West Texas 45 miles from the oldest Rattle Snake Roundups in the Nation I came across Rattlers from time to time. Rattler are pretty lay ed back and mostly defensive. If the rattler is of any size the last thing it will do is bite a human. If you hear it just freeze turn off you detector, and look a round till you see it. Slowly move the coil around to get it between you and the snake back off slowly. If giving the time a Rattler will move off on it's on. The signal from a detector will <HIGHLY PISS OFF A SNAKE>. Now a Water snake is a whole DIFFERENT Story the are just about pissed off most of the time and when doubt will attack.
 
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But I do carry if in an unknown area of the city..
 
I went to several junk Yards.. At the fourth or 5th one I just walked out to the yard by myself. ( Not thinking) This big German Shepard came around the corner on the end row of cars..He snarled a little, and walked nearer to me. I was eating some "Good & Plenty: licorice candy..I gave him a couple. He followed me around like a puppy LOL... Begging for more candy.. As I went back towards the front, the owner came out and said don't move to me..the dog was behind me about 4 feet. I stopped, wondering what the problem was..The dog came up licked my hand and wagged his tail..........The owner was all excited and yelled "JAKE" get back..and he picked up a piece of muffler pipe.He got between me and the dog..and told me to get in the office right now.. LOL
I went as told..and he grabbed the dog and put it in a cage.. he came in and asked if the dog had bitten me. I told him it was friendly why.. He said that was the meanest dog he ever owned and it didn't like anyone including him.. It has bitten several people over the years he said... and must have gotten out accidentally.He asked.. Are you sure it didn't bite you.. ?? I said no honest, it was eating candy with me LOL... he shook his head..and asked what did I want. And warned me never go into the yard again by myself... I told him what I needed.He said he would have them in a day or two come back.. I went back to get the parts and asked about "Jake"..he said he got rid of Jake. If I could pet him so could others, and that wasn't his job there to be petted.. It was to guard his junk yard... What a jerk he was. I felt bad...but was sure happy Jake didn't rip me a new Arsehole.............The parts weren't up to par either ..I didn't take them.. They were all pitted. I often wondered what he did with Jake.
 
Pizza or candy may save your life from a dog! That was a good one and it goes to show that you can't rely on fear to get you through a tough moment. Dogs can smell that - yes, I think it's a chemical or the like, however subtle, that they pick up on. "Being" calm is key, but you can't fake it that much... I have my Lesche on my side if things get out of hand, but even if they did, I wouldn't want to kill a dog, just a "warning" shot of sorts.
 
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