Oh, Hell No!!! Rattlesnake Edition

[Steve-o]

Close Call With a Timber Rattlesnake in a Treestand, 20 Feet Off the Ground

“This is a first—and hopefully a last—for me,” Murphy wrote in a Facebook post. “Over the past 30-plus years, I’ve climbed in and out of countless treestands and have become accustomed to occasional unwanted guests including wasps, spiders, raccoons, owls, and few other critters, but never a three-foot timber rattler.”

Murphy says he was 20 feet high in a tree replacing a ratchet strap on a lock-on stand when he noticed a snake staring at him from eye level, just 18 inches away.

“I had already been fiddling with the stand for a good three to four minutes, with my hands in striking range (of the snake) several times,” wrote Murphy, vice president for corporate relations at Huntstand. “My first thought was rat snake, but then I noticed the unmistakable shape of a pit viper head and realized it was a ‘nope rope’!”

Murphy climbed down from the stand, found a tree limb, and then went back up to flip the rattler out of the stand.

[LPS]

Wow, that would scare the heck out of me.  I would have killed it.  Where was this at?

[dakids]

Nope rope would have been a headless rope if it was me.