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This. Mine stay on the entire time. I can bounce back from sweaty, stinky feet faster then I can a snake bite.

I have a pair,,somewhere. Wore them in West Texas when I knew I was in rattler country, or at least higher odds than here.

i wear Depends !!!

I walk third in line.

No snake boots but I do have life insurance! Might as well go out doing sometime I like than being hit by a car or something.

I know guy who wore flip flops at his house and went outside at night to turn sprinkler off and got nailed - so moral is ? Wear them in your house, outside your house, and while sleeping

We have more Copperheads here and bugs at the ranch...wont lie I am more nervous checking the mail sometimes

never, but I'm always looking.

Wear my snake boots when we go dancing, sometimes my Ostrich or Honey Elephant, but mostly the snake.


Seriously, I don't wear snake 'proof' boots here in Deep East Texas, but I do... when I go to South Texas (too many big diamondbacks).

Where I live the most prevalent venomous snake is the Copperhead. You're pretty safe from them in just a pair of work boots.

We DO have some Cottonmouths around here that might penetrate work boots, but most that I have encountered were fairly small.

The timber/canebrake rattler exists here...but is rare. The only other venomous snake (here) is the Coral Snake (not a threat to anything but flip-flops).

Outside of deer season I am always wearing them. A couple have suggested they may not help - the flip side is they certainly won't hurt.

They work, but when tathered they can break down around the ankles and the material can get soft and snakey. The main issue that I have with snake boots or any other boot that I walk 100s of miles in is that the damned inside liner around the heal always wears a hole and then they rub my heals and are a mother to take off, because they hang up on my heal. I will not buy a lace up pair they are hotter than hell and there is enough laces to fly a kite. When Im hot, tired, and sweaty the last thing I want to do is wrangle some boots off my feet. Usually requires a good person pulling on the other end, and a metal rod down the inside of the heal trying to release the torn liner that is hung up on my heal. That sucks.

That's a pair I still wear but the liner is all messed up. theyre rockys, The bottoms may not fall off of these. Youd think if you spent 150 dollars that a boot wouldn't fall apart. wrong. I cant find a boot that will make it through a season without some kind of issue. Weather its snake boots, hiking, water boots, hunting boots or just shoes.

Thanks guys.

Being afraid of snakes, I will start to wear my boots to work to break them in.

I will also be extra careful out in the woods and have accessible ice.

I've owned a place with snakes for years. I've never worn them and don't know any neighbors who do.

The hit I took in my left leg would have been about 8 to 10 inches above the top of that boot.

Never. Hike/Bike everywhere see snakes all the time. I pay attention to my feet are placed, and where I plant my [censored].

I bought some of the Twisted X and really like them - they reach right below my knees and are very comfortable

Never. Grew up around them and they have never bothered me. Only killed one in my life and it was between me, my 5 yr old and the Kawasaki Mule. I usually just pick them up and move them out of the way.

i am going to start next weekend...tuesday morning i was trying to get some feed across the creek since my feeder has been empty since we had all the rain. the water is almost knee high still, my water boots are barely tall enough.

before i started carrying the feed across i got halfway across with my 4yo son and hear something on the other side of the bank, about 5-6ft away. its a SLITHERING SNAKE, slithering down the bank and into the water coming right at us...OH S^%T i yell as i flop/run/splash back onto the bank on the other side, throwing logan up as far as i could and yelling at him to GO.

after i climb up with him, both my boots are full of water and i'm covered in mud, i ask if he wants to go home or go ahead and cross the creek, we went home.

i will be snake booted and childless next time i go.

Ive had a few pairs of the other style of rocky snake boots that fell apart. When they do, I just cut the bottom portion of the boot off and use them like gators. You can slip them on and get a pair of thick leather low top boots and put on under the left overs. I had a pair of the rockys actually start cracking like an old dry rotted tire after one season of use. I took that pair back and traded them for another pair just like them. I often wonder if the boot makers are just trying to make a sell or do they really think that we are going to walk long distances in them at all. They would last me a lot longer if I owned an ATV, but I don't. On a positive note, A couple of my friends have been bit on the boot by poisonous snakes with no penetration. If I have I didn't know it. Ive actually popped several baby poisonous snakes when I accidently stepped on them. Their skin is real thin, so when you step on them they will pop.

Our Rocky snake boots soles seem to continually come loose. I have a local shoe repair shop that glues them back for me for $7.50 a pair. That's an unbelievable low cost when the next nearest cost is 40$ a pair.

My daughter and I purchased Chippewa's last fall and we're happy with them.

I wear boots every day but have never owned a pair of snake boots. Guess I'm lucky but have never been hit by a poisonous snake even though I hunted rattlesnakes for over twenty years.

Used to have the same attitude until we had a 5.5' healthy diamonback cross the trail a couple feet in front of us on the way back from the pond. We must have walked right past it on the 45 minutes before. I trail run at least 5 days a week and will see up to 20 copperheads a year, they do not bother me as I am on high alert and they are predictable when we find them.

2.5 yrs in this batch...IIRC there are 97 that I saved the rattles off of in that pile. I lived 34.5 miles from a town and 63 miles from the closest hospital.