Best snake dispatching knife

MolokaiRider said:
While we don't have any poisonous snakes, we do have a ton of these.

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They are pretty fast and the bite painful. I don't use a knife, but have been known to smash 'em with a rubber slipper!
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Whoa now that is something I would want to kill… unlike snakes, those things don’t have a brain to tell them to watch out for people.
I like snakes. I used to catch them as a kid with my dad, we used to catch one every spring (garder snakes usually) and feed them frogs and worms all summer and let ‘em go in the fall. I’ve handled tons of these and only got bit one time by a water snake. They are much more aggressive, (same with some black racers) but in all fairness I was trying to catch him.
Not as eager to pick them up after that, but I sure as shit wouldn’t kill ‘em for fun 🙄 never been bothered by a snake that I wasn’t bothering first. Also, if youre afraid & spazzing out when handling them it only makes them scared too.
 
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This is what my snake deterent looks like on Guam
 

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I used to carry those little garter snakes in my shirt pocket back in the day to scare the girls at school. 😁 I killed a big copperhead though one morning walking down the sidewalk about half asleep on a sunny morning right before I stepped down, I seen him and almost stepped on his back/ I jumped back and ran and got a hoe and that took care of things just fine. I normally don't kill them just to be killing them though.
 
No problem with non-venomous snakes. Literally body blocked my wife carrying the shovel 2 days ago from getting at this harmless rat snake by our front porch..

Looking back, from all the shit I've caught from her about it since then, I wish I would have just let her get it 😆
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There was a dude here who used a Cold Steel Bushman mounted on a haft, so basically a spear. It would be best not to get close with a snake, venomous or no.

Maybe someone can chime in on the effectiveness of birdshot.
 
Knives are best for peeling your apple: after you've killed the snake with a shovel...
It's best to not get "up close and personal"; with a snake of unknown venomosity...
 
Anything with a long reach will work, the longer the better. Machetes, spades, shovels, lawn edgers will all work in a pinch.
But I am living in a nearly snakefree country, (Germany only has seven different types of snakes, and two of them are mildly venomous) so I'd be very happy to see a snake outdoors and would not kill it, nor try to get close...
 
bayouace said:
I have read, but never witnessed, that a severed snake head can still bite for several hours. If true, that is wild.
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Me too. I give it marginal credence as in "well maybe, but . . ."

I will say that I have seen an alligator make weak crawling movements with its hind legs (tail moved too) when stepped on . . .four hours after I had shot it in the head.
 
The rare hybrid cross between a Water Moccasin and a Rattle Snake is a silent striker having no rattlers. There is a head on each end (bits you in both legs at once), but they are short lived as they are always constipated.
 
We have Eastern Rattlers up near me...
Not supposed to kill them; but sometimes...
When I don't have a shovel: a forked stick can pin them down right behind the toothy-end, and then a rock can be used to discourage their bodily functions...
 
Machetes work for the peoples of the Central American forests. I have witnessed children in central Belize regularly dispatch snakes with the crudest of machetes.
 
The only snake I ever killed was many years ago. I went to grab some firewood from the wood rack on my front porch. There was a copperhead laying on some wood. Luckily, I saw it and went into the garage for a shovel. I came back out and the snake actually struck the head of the shovel as I went to dispatch it.
To answer your question, I carry a .38 on my side any time I am in an area I think a snake will be when I go fishing.
 
KELAMA said:
And whatever you do/use, don't use barbecue tongs!

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Funny, I removed a small, Great Basin, from my patio last Summer using barbecue tongs. My dog alerted me to it by sticking her nose right at it! A friend did exactly the same thing a couple of weeks later in his yard. We don't like to kill snakes but my Jungle Honey is available for the task.

One I removed
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I had a couple of guys here, PM me asking how I tanned these rattlesnake skins. There's a well known YouTuber from Texas, named Bob Hansler, who's "how to" tanning video I found:


FWIW: This same Bob guy (considered to be a snake handling expert), tried to get cute when he was out shooting 1 of this YT videos with some friend's, & he got bit (by only 1 fang) and it cost him $84,000! I personally was VERY lucky, because had 2 of the rattler's had wanted to have nailed me, they easily could have.

 
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