It's not a case of manning up. I can deal with pain. Went through 7 hours of child birth with no pain relief :whistling2:
If I can avoid a bite I will. Why is it that wearing gloves when handling bitey snakes makes you a wimp?
This ^^
everyone has preferences and different needs, some peoples blood is thinner than others, once a bite is inflicted for some people the after effect can be different to vairied people.
To this day I have been bitten even when wearing gauntlets and I lost count how many times, if you can avoid a bite do it, however some cases call for handling a snake with no protection and that also is fine.
I have read a few times that even some members (respected) on here who keep retics etc feel like fainitng at the first sign of blood so it is also probibly a good idea for them to wear protection.
You can look at both aspects of this, the snake even if it did inflict a bite is not big enough to kill you and the bite is not likley to be painful (maybey a little itchy afterward)
Normally when a snake bites it is either doing it defensively or in a way to feed.
In this case it would be the snake is likley to bite defensively if it has not been fed.
If you go in with no protection do I really need to say rather than approach the snake from the front go from the tail?
Each to their own menthod, I wear gauntlets with most of my snakes exception of the corn snakes, that way if I do something stupid I am not much of a risk to myself or the snake if I can regain controll of the bite without reacting sinister.