Bill
Back years ago, I was hunting in Tuskeege ala with a landowner- he had birds roosted and we slipped in on em, sat down 20 yds apart, and a rattler began singing in the dark bewteen us!! We looked at each other knowing it was in bewteen us somewhere. I got out a pin light and it stopped rattling. We settled in somewhat as the birds began gobbeling, and the rated started up again. Suddenly, the guy went screaming and running/falling down the hill- I just knew he had been struck, ended up, he sat on the snake- it was in the pine straw deep where it was warmer- he felt the snake roll under his buttocks and quickly departed from his sitting position!!!!
Needless to say- with the girl'y screaming his was doing- the roosted birds were done for that day!!
The good news was that he didn't get hit though- it was quite a sight that morn