Seems to me the reactions are about equal, some would walk away and others wouldn't be as calm. I have to say none on my mountain property survive meeting me. My DW, my dog, my friends and their kids all stomp around up there. I'll leave them alone anywhere else but not on my place. It's been my experience the timber rattlers are too aggressive to have close to home. Maybe I'm overly paranoid but I can't get past my primal fear of them. I wonder what the psychology is behind that, some people including DW aren't bothered by snakes in the least. Me, I'm generally ok as long as I know they are there. I really HAVE seen Epirider levitate at the sight of one and others will react with immediate deadly force. Anyone else in an area with a fairly high dangerous snake population? what do you do?