Quote Originally Posted by aSnakeLovinBabe View Post
you are extremely lucky... likely you took a dry bite due to having just milked the snake, or the snake chose to give you a dry bite, and the residual amounts of venom left from the milking likely caused that brown dot! A lot of people who get hit by a copper lose the digit!
It was DEFINITELY not a dry bite but maybe reduced venom. I got dry bite by a copper when I was 5. My friend tried to catch it, and stepped on it's tail and it turned around and hit me in the leg. No pain, no hospital, no discoloration. I don't even think it took out it's fangs.