I’ve been hit 3 times and never had the fang pierce leather. But, that’s high quality leather work boots.

I was over in Gila National Forest and hiking around the cliff dwellings. There was a couple of little girls in front of me. They walked right past a rattlesnake on a rock. I called them back to show them the snake. There was a lot of snakes around there, about 50 yards before that I heard the "buzz" and froze since I was wearing sneakers. In any event if you are in brush or grass where you can't see where you are planting your feet- year- wear something better than sneakers.

I’ve been happy with the Justin 17” snake boots. They are comfortable
and I can wear them all day.

I'll 2nd this. I wear Justin work boots daily, and when I'm at the ranch, I wear Justin snake boots. Same size, same fit, same comfort.

Only thing I have against the Justin boots is the "V" in the front and rear. It opens a lot of vulnerable real estate on your leg for a bite, especially the top of the calf in the rear. I bought a pair and returned them after realizing how much protection I was giving up with the Justins.

Just thinking. Since the pig invasion I average seeing a snake every two or three years. This includes rural roads. I used to be loaded with them and saved a small coffee can full of rattles for a grandson.

I saw a snake handler at a texas trophy hunters show get bit. He was wearing snake boots and was in a pit full of snakes and was messing with one of them when a much larger one that he wasn’t even paying attention too off to his side struck and hit him about an inch above the top of his snake boots. He said a few cuss words, got out of the pit, sat down and pulled his boot off. Rolled up his pants and put two of those extractor suction things on the fang marks. We wandered off and when we came back by about 45 minutes later he was back in the pit.

I grew up in sweetwater and remember going hunting them darn things in high school and catching trash cans full of them. I never got struck but had quite a few close calls. We loved outside of town on 15 acres when I was growing up and we always were finding rattlesnakes. We found several in the garage, on the porch, you name it, I remember one year at Christmas we had a pile of boxes on the back porch after opening presents. It was unusually warm that year. The day after we went out to the porch to break down all the boxes and put them in the burn barrel and when we picked up the last one there was a rattler under it.