My bp used to strike at me too, but now he's rather tame (but does strike at passer by-s every now and then.
Here's what I did. I didn't touch him for one week. Following that I fed him and let him be for another three days. Then he would strike at me non stop so I used gloves to take him out and after a day he stopped striking so I stopped using the gloves. Another 3-4 days and he stopped hissing and now he doesn't even jump when I go in to take him out.
Another useful advice: Get an old dirty t-shirt or white beater. Tear up a small bandanna and tie it around your hand for few nights as you sleep. That will scent the bandanna with your smell. The stick that in the BPs hide and he will start associating your scent with security. This has worked wonders for me. My bp seems to recognize me nowadays. For instance when anyone but me goes to take the snake out he will curl up and raise his body wherever they touch him. Every now and then he would even hiss, but when it's me he slithers onto my hand. I stopped doing the bandanna trick a while ago, but the snake still seems to recognizes me. Now that might just be me being crazy and wanting to believe that the snake recognizes me, but still, it did make a difference.
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