Thread: Interesting here Rules Of Thumb

A rattlesnake’s strike can be up to two-thirds of its length. That means a three-foot rattlesnake can strike up to two feet.

If you get caught in a rip tide, don’t swim against it. Instead, swim at a 90-degree angle until you’re clear of it. Then you can head back to shore.
http://rulesofthumb.org/

found this on another site

Ordinarily, a strike can cover a distance of between about one third and one half the snake’s length. Thus, as a rule of thumb, a three foot (1 meter) snake has about an eighteen inch (0.5 meter) strike radius; a four footer (1.3 meter) might reach out about two feet (0.6 meter), and so on.

http://www.alongtheway.org/rattlesnakes/close.html

But at the same time I was always told growing up that it in the right position they can actually strike as far as their whole body length so who knows. Either way it is very scary to come up on one and once was enough for me