My original pics below taken a month or so ago.

Nice. If those gaitors are tough enough to reppel snakes, what would they be like for the alps John?

Perfect mate,the owner is a mad sambar hunter,that has done Fiordland previously and is in the ballot this year..he will be wearing them as they are a real hunting gaiter but with the bonus of being SP.

Wheres my emails re Sweden Shanks?

So tell me about the snake in the pics.

Haven't seen many of those here in TN.

Google tiger snake

Tiger Snake: lots of personality and all of it is BAD!

up here in the land of ice and snow - we ain't got none of them kind of snakes. only one we have is a snow snake - it frequently bites people and they have to go inside and take a shot of snake bite medicine

Well done getting your pic's published. A lot of snakes getting around at the moment. Cant find the gaiters listed on his web site?

Will try and chase up a pair myself.

Our US friends should keep in mind that our Aussie snakes, while highly venomous have only small/short fangs unlike the HUGE fangs some of your rattlesnakes have.

Without testing these gaiters I would not put my legs on the line against one of those.

I'm kind of like Indiana Jones on this subject:
"Snakes! Why does it have to be snakes?"

Very nice photos Gryph.

Nice pics of a pale snake, John.

Rob showed us the gaiters at the WP ADA meeting this month and said a snake man had put one on his arm and let a schlange strike him - without penetration.

I hear the venom comes down grooves on the outside, so with luck most would be rubbed off even if the fangs did get through.

Do American snakes have the same delivery system?

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Originally posted by Jack H:
Well done getting your pic's published. A lot of snakes getting around at the moment. Cant find the gaiters listed on his web site?

I`m not sure if they have actually been released yet although the ad is slated for this months Aus Deer Hunter mag,prob this week.
Email Moroka30 Jack H.
Pale snake? Prob due to the time of year I found it out sunning on the 4th of last month,first sunny day and the snake being tucked up all winter would make for the paleness though tigers can run to all sorts of colours.

http://reptilis.net/serpentes/venom.html#Delivery

Thanks John,
the tigers we used to see in the Western District tended to be brown. My father killed 50 snakes one year on our farm and found the tigers the meanest. When angry, he told me, they could flatten out their necks like a cobra.

I wonder how the gaiters would go against the Bitis gabonica

- Paul

There`s no Gaboony`s in Oz haha.