Bulldog, these snake stories remind me of the one I heard at the Exped Med conference last year.
Some good ole boys were out fishing in the swamps of Georgia. They had to be rescued because the jonboat sank, and one of the guys had a serious shotgun blast to his foot. What happened? A snake fell out of a tree into the boat. The guy fired his shotgun to kill the snake, but blew half his foot off, plus a hole in the bottom of the flimsy jonboat.
Five will get you ten that was a cottonmouth - which might explain why he acted so hastily. Cottonmouths (water moccasins) are bad news.
And if they were in the Georgia swamps, in a boat with a shotgun, I bet they were poaching gators as opposed to "fishing" . . .
