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    Re: Show off your Large Format camera!

    Quote Originally Posted by pchaplo View Post
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    note snake boots-this is Texas!
    Very smart!

    A snake bite can ruin your day. We had a rash of copperheads and timber rattlers in the NE. We didn't even keep track of all the kids bit by copperheads. None died, but you know it was usually painful. Never knew of anyone bit by a timber rattler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jac@stafford.net View Post
    Very smart!

    A snake bite can ruin your day. We had a rash of copperheads and timber rattlers in the NE. We didn't even keep track of all the kids bit by copperheads. None died, but you know it was painful. Never knew of anyone bit by a timber rattler.
    Jac, where is the NE? Do you mean the Boundary Waters?

    Chicago area Des Plaines River had a lot of poisonous snakes, they cleared them by bounty in 1920 I thought. But never got them all it seems. http://www.wheelinghistoricalsociety...m5/Albump1.htm

    Southern Illinois they are a protected species. I have stepped right over one sleeping in a coil on a warm rock on a cold day. We close a road for them. http://thesouthern.com/news/local/en...87b0cd3.html#3

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    My boots say “95 of snake bites are below the knee.” I hope the Texas rattlers have read that.

    My co-worker got bit by a diamondback. He panicked and ran (probably the worst thing you can do). Then he had an allergic reaction to the anti-venom, which is made with horse serum. After he survived, I kidded him about how anything horse-related could disagree with him bc he was a bona-fide cowboy.

    I also carry an Extractor snake bite kit, which some debate if it’s effective at all. Some jobs I walk 10 miles across rattlesnake country, and do my best to avoid the rocks and brush piles. Local K-9 search and rescue team here have their dogs injected with anti-venom and give the dog ten (10) Benadryl 25mg capsules if they get bit in the field. So I carry Benadryl too bc if it’s good enough for a dog...
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    Re: Show off your Large Format camera!

    Quote Originally Posted by Randy Moe View Post
    Jac, where is the NE? Do you mean the Boundary Waters?
    Sorry I was not clear. I'm originally from Rhode Island (RI) and North-East means to me the New England states above RI, and from my experience Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and up-state New York. The copperhead experiences were in rural Connecticut - an area no longer rural. You've seen the depressing change, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pchaplo View Post
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    I also carry an Extractor snake bite kit
    In the early Fifties our snake kit was a tourniquet, a pointed razor and rubber suction cups. The only use my peers found found for them was sucking out pimples.

    When it came to copperhead bites the advice was, "Just walk it off."

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    I just finished a HAER job in Louisiana with airboat access and 4x5 setups the marsh. Big fat water moccasins abounding. I was wearing waders with strap-on snake guards. Priceless. I look carefully as I walk.
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    Maybe Oren can start a snake safety thread.
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    Nothing too special about this one but she's mine and has been since the 90's.

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    Out yesterday in Baltimore with my 8x10 Conley.

    [img]Conley 8x10 Herring Run IMG_5264 by blazingshutters, on Flickr[/img]

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    I just built a lens board for my Rochester 8x10. The lens is a Gundlach Radar 12" on a Wollensak Betax No5 shutter, I had to drill a 4 5/8" hole for it. I have 4 plate holders for this camera so I intend buying some dry plates to shoot.

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