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Harriest predicament you've ever found yourself in while in the woods?
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<blockquote data-quote="13pt" data-source="post: 5280073" data-attributes="member: 19602"><p>Three short snake experiences…</p><p></p><p>I was probably 12 or so and squirrel hunting. That was a year we had cicadas. I heard one stuck in the dry leaves just buzzing to high heavens, so I kneeled down to pick it up. All of a sudden this 5 foot long stick starts moving. Yep, it was a 5 ft rattlesnake making that "buzzing" sound and I had bent down to pick it up! Thank God it was stretched out at the time, and decided to move along!</p><p></p><p>My dad use to drop me off during the summer when school was out to dig ginseng all day and then pick me up on his way home. I was only 16, and actually found enough ginseng to buy my first car that year. Anyway, those of you who have hunted ginseng know you'll stop for a minute and look around before taking a few steps and then stop another minute and so on. I had been standing in this one spot for a good minute, and apparently long enough for this rattlesnake to catch up to me, and caught my eye and I looked down and it was crawling against the arch of my boot like it was a log or a rock. It didn't know any difference and just kept crawling on its way. Fortunately I had the sense enough to stand very freaking still.</p><p></p><p>On another ginseng hunting trip that year I had sit down on a big log for probably 5 minutes to take a break. I stood up and happened to look back at the log and the entire time I was sitting about 5 foot from a coiled up copperhead. It just sit quietly and watched me at an easy striking distance. Have to wonder how often that happens and you never realize it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="13pt, post: 5280073, member: 19602"] Three short snake experiences… I was probably 12 or so and squirrel hunting. That was a year we had cicadas. I heard one stuck in the dry leaves just buzzing to high heavens, so I kneeled down to pick it up. All of a sudden this 5 foot long stick starts moving. Yep, it was a 5 ft rattlesnake making that “buzzing” sound and I had bent down to pick it up! Thank God it was stretched out at the time, and decided to move along! My dad use to drop me off during the summer when school was out to dig ginseng all day and then pick me up on his way home. I was only 16, and actually found enough ginseng to buy my first car that year. Anyway, those of you who have hunted ginseng know you’ll stop for a minute and look around before taking a few steps and then stop another minute and so on. I had been standing in this one spot for a good minute, and apparently long enough for this rattlesnake to catch up to me, and caught my eye and I looked down and it was crawling against the arch of my boot like it was a log or a rock. It didn’t know any difference and just kept crawling on its way. Fortunately I had the sense enough to stand very freaking still. On another ginseng hunting trip that year I had sit down on a big log for probably 5 minutes to take a break. I stood up and happened to look back at the log and the entire time I was sitting about 5 foot from a coiled up copperhead. It just sit quietly and watched me at an easy striking distance. Have to wonder how often that happens and you never realize it. [/QUOTE]
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