Speaking of dry strikes, I knew a cotton farmer from Waynesboro, GA, our county seat, who had been bitten by rattlers three times and all were dry bites.
A former young employee of mine was a bowhunter, for deer, and hunted the Brier Creek swamp area his grandaddy owns. He would go into the swamp in snake chaps, and was bitten twice on the chaps by rattlers. Both times the snakes fangs got hung in the kevlar stuff and he had to beat them off with an arrow. Gutsy kid to keep going like he did. He was pretty laid back about it all.
SRH
