New family members - BK9, 10, 24 and Dozier

No all good Springy, thanks for your input mate, always love a good snake story, and good info there for all.

Where my family originates from in country NSW, (Gunnedah) it's tiger snakes. Similar experience to yours with my grandfather, bloody thing went straight between his legs when he was rabbit shooting. He walked away and the snake turned around and headed straight for him.

Living in a semi rural type area now it's Eastern Browns. I have a five year old boy and I'm super cautious with him. Boots and gaiters all the way.

Thanks Ethan for your kind words, and buying your knives is a real joy for me, they are both functional and a joy to own.

When we do go bush in month or two I will have the 9 close by all the time.
 
Bladite said:
....Welcome to any National Park
This park contains billions of poisonous snakes
These snakes are protected by law
You are not...
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Bladite, whilst that was a bloody funny response I say this in all seriousness. You are ABSOLUTELY correct. As far as I know EVERY native animal in Aus is protected in some way except for Roo's, they get culled when they hit plague proportions. Thankfully we have the best anti-venine in the world. We need to.

Don't be worried Mr. B, theres plenty of Aussies to use as human shields. So please come out here. No serious, please. I would love to meet you. So would Gas..
 
Man, Australia is hardcore (I suppose unless you have Paul Hogan as private security).
In case anyone is interested, here is a much larger list of snake toxicity:
http://snakedatabase.org/pages/LD50.php
The list is sortable.. subcutaneous toxicity ("LD50 SC") is probably more relevant than intravenous toxicity ("LD50 IV").
You may notice that snakes not typically though of as particularly deadly to humans (e.g. rattlesnakes) are highly ranked, whereas some more deadly species (e.g. coral snakes) fall farther down the list. That's probably because mice react differently to the venom than we do. ..makes sense from the perspective of a snake that bites a lot more mice than it does humans.
 
Funnily enough they test on mice because they actually share quite a few of the same properties as we do. Deadliness is actually different to toxicity. Toxicity rates how potent a particular venom is. Deadliness relates to overall recorded fatality count. Rattle snakes would be considered far deadlier than the inland taipan due to the fact it probably kills numerous people per year. If memory serves me correctly the Inland taipan has only claimed two lives since the 50's mainly due to their rarity. Toxicity however, the taipan has the potential to kill far more humans than the rattler. Great list Grinter. Very informative.

Just one more scary fact about Australian Fauna before I get banned for not taking about Beckers, the funnel Web spider, is thought to be the most toxic and deadly spider in the world. It isn't. It's actually not any more toxic than a number of poisonous spiders. It's the delivery system of its venom. These spiders are massively aggressive and when they attack they grip onto you with very strong legs and pierce their nearly inch long hardened fangs into you over and over and inject huge quantities of venom into said victim.

I'm going shut up now.
 
BeeKayNutCase said:
Funnily enough they test on mice because they actually share quite a few of the same properties as we do. Deadliness is actually different to toxicity. Toxicity rates how potent a particular venom is. Deadliness relates to overall recorded fatality count. Rattle snakes would be considered far deadlier than the inland taipan due to the fact it probably kills numerous people per year. If memory serves me correctly the Inland taipan has only claimed two lives since the 50's mainly due to their rarity. Toxicity however, the taipan has the potential to kill far more humans than the rattler. Great list Grinter. Very informative.

Just one more scary fact about Australian Fauna before I get banned for not taking about Beckers, the funnel Web spider, is thought to be the most toxic and deadly spider in the world. It isn't. It's actually not any more toxic than a number of poisonous spiders. It's the delivery system of its venom. These spiders are massively aggressive and when they attack they grip onto you with very strong legs and pierce their nearly inch long hardened fangs into you over and over and inject huge quantities of venom into said victim.

I'm going shut up now.
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But.... They can all be killed with a Becker if the necessity arises. (Although highly unadvisable).
 
Hey BeeKay......

No need to be quiet..... LOL...... I appreciate the education....... That funnel spider sounds like a real sweety........ I thought our very own Cottonmouth was aggressive as hell but, that tale of the Eastern Brown really gave me the willies..... I never have been a big snake lover and when you add hypos I get a touch twitchy....... My own neighborhood abounds in Copperheads....... Our dogs have been bit 5 or 6 times ..... They recover quickly but I held our little Boston on my lap for the hour drive to the clinic and the whimpers and little doggie screams caused me to start hating the damn things..... The ex was driving as I had had several brewskis too many.....

I would love to visit you guys....... I have a real appreciation of our countries' history of shared sacrifice....... And I have yet to meet an Aussie I did not like...... Like my occasional Foster's too.....

Ethan
 
levernutt said:
Seeing those two in the photos together, I never realized before how the 10 looks like a scrunched up 9 (or conversely, the 9 resembles an elongated 10)!
-Levernutt
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It's funny that you say that as I recently looking through the Becker line to purchase one. Both the 9 and the 10 caught my eye (love that clip point) but as I was looking at a picture with no frame of reference, I didn't realize until I read the stats the the 9 is a *9*inch blade! At that point I ordered the 10 (and couldn't be happier). Not that I don't want a 9, but I wanted more of an all-around knife than the big 9.
 
pharminator said:
It's funny that you say that as I recently looking through the Becker line to purchase one. Both the 9 and the 10 caught my eye (love that clip point) but as I was looking at a picture with no frame of reference, I didn't realize until I read the stats the the 9 is a *9*inch blade! At that point I ordered the 10 (and couldn't be happier). Not that I don't want a 9, but I wanted more of an all-around knife than the big 9.
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Say it veeeery quietly as to not let Big Hoss hear you..
 
pharminator said:
It's funny that you say that as I recently looking through the Becker line to purchase one. Both the 9 and the 10 caught my eye (love that clip point) but as I was looking at a picture with no frame of reference, I didn't realize until I read the stats the the 9 is a *9*inch blade! At that point I ordered the 10 (and couldn't be happier). Not that I don't want a 9, but I wanted more of an all-around knife than the big 9.
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You mean the 9 is not an all-around knife? :confused:
 
Gassy, that a nice BunchaBeckers you've got there.

Congrats.
 
Ethan Becker said:
My own neighborhood abounds in Copperheads...
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I went for the Rich Mountain Loop hike in Cade's Cove last summer. Stumbled upon a nest of copperheads off of Indian Trail. Counted 12 of them. No chases, or strikes though.

Oh... nice choices, gassy.
 
Gassy said:
Say it veeeery quietly as to not let Big Hoss hear you..
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Nope BigHoss heard him. He is just quite frankly disappointed beyond remark. I'm sure once he has finished taking out his disappointment on the nearest tree with his favorite 9 he will chime in at the heresy.

Oh and also, MR. BECKER SPOKE TO ME!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! <gushes profusely>
but seriously I'm glad your little dog recovered Mr. B, it breaks my heart to hear of beloved pets in pain.
 
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