False. There are snakebite kits. I’ve purchased a few different ones. Usually consists of a tourniquet and some kinda suction device to extract the venom.
rattlesnakes!?
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serviceguy
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Both of which you're not supposed to do in case of a snake bite (read up to the point of DO NOTs)...well, at least do not suck with your mouth.
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000031.htm#:~:text=DO NOT apply a tourniquet,with a knife or razor.
rick81721
Lothar
Unscrupulous companies sell them, but they don't work. In fact, they do more harm than good. If you have any, throw them in the trash where they belong.
https://www.snakebitefoundation.org...ommercial-snakebite-kits-and-venom-extractors
I never said they work, just that they exist 😉
“Today, we are going to focus on one item in particular because it happens to be the most heavily marketed and widely sold commercial snakebite kit on the market.”
My dad always kept them in our hunting kits. Timber rattlers are crazy down here. A lumber company was logging one of our hunt clubs when I was a kid and the company pulled out of the job because the property was “infested” with rattle snakes.
Pops won’t go in the woods without wearing knee high snake boots.
“Today, we are going to focus on one item in particular because it happens to be the most heavily marketed and widely sold commercial snakebite kit on the market.”
My dad always kept them in our hunting kits. Timber rattlers are crazy down here. A lumber company was logging one of our hunt clubs when I was a kid and the company pulled out of the job because the property was “infested” with rattle snakes.
Pops won’t go in the woods without wearing knee high snake boots.
So snakebite kits are sold by snake oil companies? Hmm. Kinda makes sense?
one piece crank
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Yes, true, and welcome to 1968.
bucknejo
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what trail was that?
serviceguy
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If that was me it would have to be renamed the ‘brown’ trail…
bergsnj
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i saw one on a trail in ringwood once a few years ago. I was totally freaked out for the rest of the ride. I've heard that when animal control removes a rattle snake from anywhere in NJ that they bring it to ringwood because it is sort of a refuge for timber rattlers in NJ.
serviceguy
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That is great, as someone that is greatly freaked out/scared by snakes of all sorts I seem to have picked up the perfect place to live!
Rob Munro
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this is very good advice. thanks.
This is false. It is a well-known fact that bears frequently throw fist fulls of rattlesnakes at mountain bikers.
serviceguy
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Good thing I'm just a chump!