Best snake dispatching knife

I don't whack snakes. They will usually beat feet from where you are, and if not,a small branch from a tree will encourage them.


 
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Kill them with love.


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I live out in the country, love animals of any sort, including snakes. Lot's of time we got young snakes in the pool,
I fish them in the net and take them to the pond in the back of the property. We got tons of black racers and also
a old king snake that I know where it lives and try to avoid when I'm mowing, it eats tons of mice and such...
I know well how to avoid the coral snakes and the rest of the poisonous crew but unfortunately, sometimes they get very close to the house,
or inside the cage, and with 3 yo grand daughter and 3 small, old doggies, being almost blind and sniffing everything that rattles,
I have to waste the rattlers and the copperheads... I kill the copperheads anyway because they are really aggressive and sometimes even attack the wheels of the 0-turn...
The old .44spl Bulldog with some snakeshots that a neighbor of mine loads for me are doing the trick, especially when I already whacked the screen when trimming the grass. 🤣
I also use a piece of 2'x3' plywood for a shield between my feet and the snake, and shoot from the top, this way they are attacking the plywood but cannot get to my feet.

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Around here we have several types of rattlers, coral snakes, copperheads and moccasins ……. and plenty of them. I carry a (legal) short, double barrel .410 shotgun. After being bitten when I was much younger I have no problem dispatching poisonous reptiles.
 
Interesting theory involving snakes, at least in this part of the country (mid south)- they’re saying that copperheads and water moccasins are getting more aggressive because of the fact that the ones that “run” when they sense a human walking upon them are usually the ones that get noticed and therefore killed. Copperheads in particular have apparently been evolving towards staying still when something approaches them- which ironically leads to more bites because they stay almost invisible til you step on them. We had firsthand experience last year when we were all talking in a big circle one morning at work, only to notice as we went our separate ways that there was a juvenile copperhead hanging out in the middle the entire time.

Water moccasins do the same, accept they are more aggressive by nature so more likely to step up close to the nest and have one chase out towards you.

I.E. killing every snake you see is probably gonna backfire at some point.

PSA there’s a really well run group on Facebook that explains the emergency protocol for snake bites- I would definitely look up the best emergency plans for snake bites if you’re gonna be around then at all- apparently antivenin is not as commonly available as you’d presume and there’s some things that experts agree on that even some hospitals tend to not do.
 
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