If you use the proper gear, ie; thick leather gloves, snake hook, thick burlap bags etc you’re pretty safe cuz
I got bit just once I was grabbing one I’d just ‘hooked’ and a late comer got me as it came out of the cactus cluster
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Always pays to be on your toes in the desert lol snakes love the cactus clusters and overhanging rocks for the shade, then at night they’re really bad some places
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I’m no ‘expert’ mind yas lol I only did it a couple winters
But I’m a ‘quick-study’ and WAS taught by an expert lol
It was just something to do while tending a small patch of Ganja I had growing in the foothills lol
wasn’t more than 100 or so plants each time
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Lmao! 100 or so… No biggie hahaha glad we’re legal here now!!
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Yep lol ain’t it grand?! I’m loving the direction this country is finally going as far as Marijuana is concerned.
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jesus johnny. what havent you done man? snakes and spiders are a no go for me personally, although id take a spider over a snake most of the time. show me a snake and youll just see that cartoon poof of dust and my backside running the opposite direction.
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Yeah cuz lol I’ve been there done that on a lot of stuff over the years. I was the epitome of a ‘rolling stone’
btw, that snake that I got bit by …didn’t make it to the labs lol I had that sucka for dinner!
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so its safe to say then if something bites you youre inclined to bite back then johnny? 
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Well lol I was ‘evil, wicked, mean and nasty’ back in the 70s lol so I’m surprised it didn’t die on the spot when it bit me!
…and, I’ve always 'bit back, when bitten.
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we gotta get you a bid for president. or at the very least your own daytime talk show, the world needs more of your kind of wisdom! haha
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Naw cuz lol I gotta pass on that stuff! I hate politicians worse than anything…
They’re way worse than any snake
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Rattlers make a decent lunch
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Good as heck to eat cuz! ‘Skinned and sticked’ over a good fire with some basting if handy lol but just roasted is good.
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Absolutely, even get a bonus hat band.
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Every now and then, I’d incorporate the skin (dried n cured, of course, lol) into a piece of artwork jewelry hatband. Turquoise and silver etc
Waste not, want not lol
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DM incoming cuz
While I know you’re around lol
Makes a decent emergency canteen in a pinch too 
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lol never tried that one but I know you can use different skins in a pinch
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alright lol i been hanging out in here long enough! I gotta get back to the harvesting, them plants ain’t gonna jump outta the pots and hang themselves!
I’ll check back in later
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later johnny, good luck bud.