18 ft python, what knife would you use.

Could be wrong, but the knife in the video looks like a Forschner Cimetar, probably a 12 or 14 inch. I have an older F Dick Scimitar with a wood handle that looks much like it that I like for butchering.

Seems to have done the job well.

I think anything over 8" with sharp serrations would help get through the scales, and separate the vertebrae.

Brome
 
SDC said:
Knife? Lift off and nuke the site from orbit.
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Its the only way to be sure...
Love that movie.

Since no one else has said it yet, I'll be "that guy"...

I'd use whatever I had on me.

But seriously, if you stop a car and get out to do battle with a python, you're cruising for a Darwin award.
 
A small knife something like maybe 3 inch long blade, because remember your going to strike it with a panic (if you think you wont panic try imagine something attacking you and you can hear your muscle being compressed and maybe a bone break, all well that limb goes numb and feels dead). Thus you run a high risk of cutting yourself deep well killing it and severing or damaging something important if using a large blade, only making a bad situation a hell of a lot worse and possibly ending your chance to survive long enough to get help.
But in terms of blade the blade I'd want to use from experience of what i've owned, I say CS ak-47 or Kershaw Antelope.
 
Give it a good chop chop ! :D

A khuk from Jason Knight, dressed by Paul Long.

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My blackjack Halo 14 worked last time I needed it. Although I might have to carry my Trailmaster or Dogfather if I am going into giant python territory.

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Note: All meat and the skin of this snake was used, and it was harvested legally!
 
Couple years ago got on the list for a Koster knife, took a while to get it and I forget the name, but it's a big honker with a finger hole cut into the guard. Anyway, this badazz Snake Dispatcher would be my first choice to handle a Python.
 
well seeing the rules of the thread are that i cant put it down humanely and have to pretend to be tarzan I would use a spyderco bug. That way when im bragging to my friends about killing an animal I wont look like a tool for using a knife wider than the snake. Cuz where is the macho in doing that?
 
Python on Python... I'd use my 4 inch Colt Python to kill the 18foot Python.
 
I find it funny how a lot of guys are over looking the fact fact that if you use a large blade you increase the chance of injuring yourself well hitting the snake if it one you.
 
I love snakes so despite what you say i would try my hardest to not kill it.. but if i only had what i had in my pocket it would have to be my ti lite as of late.
 
Some of you do not understand the devastating effect that invasive species have on the native ecosystem. No one is advocating wanton killing of animals.
 
While I understand that they are sadly a pest in Florida, I do think its funny how many people are so very scared of snakes. They are calling this guy a hero for killing an animal that is pretty much completely non aggressive. It grabbed on his leg only because he was attacking it like a moron with a knife that he is. A hero? Hardly. Just a goof trying to prove he is a man.

Almost all snakes are easy to kill as they simply pretty dumb animals that don't like humans and are quite scared of them. If you get bit it's almost always because they were spooked. Big constricting snakes are basically completely harmless including the Burmese. I've handled them quite a bit and unless you smell like their favorite food they just slowly crawl away. But you boys can keep imagining your fighting some fantasy anaconda :D
 
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