Just for chits and giggles...

Couple years ago me and a buddy were hog hunting back home in the piney woods of east Texas well it was late summer time the dogs had a good boar bayed down in a creek well we got pretty close I cut the bulldog lose and was right on his heels to provide back up the bulldog went over a dead tree log and by the time I heard it I was already in mid flight across the log I had lacrosse knee high rubber boots on and when my foot broke over the log I felt an extremely solid strike to the top of my boot I hit the ground took about 4 steps and screamed to the top of my lungs WHOA. Cody stop he stopped and said hey man what's wrong why are you do pail I took my ruger 10/22 and emptied a 10 round clip onto the ground right in front of me the solid strike to the top of my boot was a 4 1/2 foot timber rattler I've had a few more bad exspierences but that was the one I really remembered who the man up top was