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Ray Hunter aka Cobraman

As somone who has been there....

mbdorfer said:
I get the impression that he's not so much a kook, but suffers from a bit of over-confidence. Probably picked that up from Mr. Haast.:shrugs:
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Mike's quote as well as Dean's om 11-5 are nose on finger stuff...you get awful complacent sometimes. I used to free hand rattlesnakes. I had in particular an E. Diamondback born in my house I would pick up with a hook but then hold in my hands as I changed her paper or water bowl. It is great to be young and stupid in America, but not dead.

Today is a different story. My wife won't let me near them.
 

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There you go, another perfectly happy rattle snake and you have to poke a stick at it?? ;)

Ah you are a braver man than I. And the funny part, my SO thinks I would pick one up. *sigh*
 
Wow, that was interesting. Thanks for the link! I'm not interested in hots at all, but I'll say that Leucistic Monocled Cobra sure looked fancy.
 
Wow, those are some crazy pictures. Glad he's ok.

My son found a baby rattle snake when we were camping. He was maybe 3ish. So I didn't really believe him and I was like, yeah yeah, snake, whatever. Imagine my surprise when I finally walked over to check out what I was sure would be a stick that looked like a snake. He was standing right next to it, inches away. Too scary.
 
And if you thought that the bite itself is bad (if you should survive), while reading my new book "Venomous Snakes In Captivity: Safety And Husbandry", I was enlightened to also think about this (which is something that isn't often mentioned or considered) as quoted from the book: "Treatment for envenomation is expensive, very expensive. My friend's bill [for a Mojave Rattlesnake envenomation] was at the low end, it was in excess of $40,000. Another friend's Eastern Diamondback bite was more than $89,000, and I know of yet another person bitten by an Eastern Diamondback a few years ago that topped $162,000."

:eek::eek::eek:
 
He also states along with the pictures "My LAST (and I mean LAST) snake bite!!!". I wonder what exactly this means. And isn't Ray Hunter the same guy that sells venomous snakes through "Exotic Reptiles Jungle" or is that a different Ray?
 
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