Everglades python hunting season

Just think of the amazing machete sheaths that could be made from those skins!

Joe, I need some of those skins buddy! :)
 
RatDrall said:
Are the snakes hurting anything?
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Yes. The snakes and monitors are replacing the alligator as the apex predator of Florida. They are also believed to be responsible for the decline in the bird population.

It should be open season all year around with a damn reward for the hugest and biggest quantity of snakes and monitors killed.
 
RatDrall said:
Are the snakes hurting anything?
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Good question as I can see where some folks that like snakes and keep them as pets would say, "let them be". I am not one of those people, I am one of the folks with an irrational fear of snakes. Don't know why, I guess it has to do with my up bringing.

There was a show I saw the other night (and I am sure I won't remember it correctly) that outlined several reasons they are bad.

-The young snakes are good climbers and kill many different types of birds.
-They eat the same foods that native snakes eat, reducing availability of food for the native snakes.
-They don't have as many "natural" enemies, they showed a raccoon that is a big snake eater try to eat a small python and the python turned and struck the raccoon which is was not used too. They also showed a native snake (black something or other) that eats other snakes attack a small python and for some reason before it killed the python it just gave up.
-They are afraid that the monitors are going to invade the habitat of the American Crocodile and wipe it out by eating its eggs.
-There is also an endangered mouse in the Keys that if (or when) the pythons make it there will be in sure danger of extinction.

One of the good things about the show was they described a pet amnesty program in Miami. If you have an exotic that you no longer can take care of, bring it in and it will be given to someone who can prove they can take care of it.

I can see selling licenses and regulating who hunts the snakes. But if the problem is a large as it seems to be, the season is way too short.
 
After the last hurricanes me and my buddies went in there to flamingo. There wasn't a leaf on the trees. We saw hundreds in just minutes of driving. I asked one of the rangers if we could come back with 22's and have some fun.
" That's not legal sir"
Another brainwashed dipstick " doing his job"
 
Toucan Oasis said:
After the last hurricanes me and my buddies went in there to flamingo. There wasn't a leaf on the trees. We saw hundreds in just minutes of driving. I asked one of the rangers if we could come back with 22's and have some fun.
" That's not legal sir"
Another brainwashed dipstick " doing his job"
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Yes, the correct answer is "don't let me catch you, and be careful"
 
they are doing this with wolves in idaho-farmers have been shooting them for 15 years, but now there are too many for the forest service to count and they are killing all the cattle and sheep herds. They opened a season last year with 200 tags, and the tags were imediately bought out. They weren't filled by the time the season was over so they extended the season 3 months.
 
PayetteRucker said:
they are doing this with wolves in idaho-farmers have been shooting them for 15 years, but now there are too many for the forest service to count and they are killing all the cattle and sheep herds. They opened a season last year with 200 tags, and the tags were imediately bought out. They weren't filled by the time the season was over so they extended the season 3 months.
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And I don't know how many people I heard that had tags said they would shoot 10 before they reported 1... Wolves are a freaking menace and a plague in Idaho...
 
Brad "the butcher";7912540 said:
man between them and feral hogs your native fauna are taking a kicking.
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My neighbor and good friend up the road is on a Maine Hotshot crew in summer and winters in Florida doing prescribed burns for Parks and Lands. Last winter was too dry to burn so they gave him a job in animal control. Aside from relocating bothersome alligators he killed something like 250 feral hogs. He also told me some idiot released several monitor lizards into the wild down there. I read recently that the recent cold snap took a pretty heavy toll on non-native reptiles in Florida.
 
C_Kyle said:
Sure. Only thing is I have a huge, mean attack cat that will attack if you show fear. If you ignore his antics, he'll be nice. I'm like 300 miles from the Everglades, though.

The Pythons have made their way up here. They're not too common, but they're here. I saw one Burmese baby several years ago. I'm sure you could find more if you explore the swampland.

We can practice our crappy rabbit stick skills. lol
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Count me in. My friend's squirrel hunting cat cannot put a dent on me.:cool:
 
This stuff is wild man.
Snakes in Florida are a big problem in Florida. Pythons are no joke.

I read an article talking about how feral cats are a HUGE problem in Wisconsin and the #1 killer of native birds. About 10 years ago they were thinking about opening a hunting season on anything without a collar. Feral cats have the native wildlife when they can find it to eat and people to mooch off of when they cant find anything to hunt.
They also like to kill birds for the fun of it.

I'm all for whacking non native species. Ive been gearing up to hunt pigs here in Tx. The low end estimates are that there are 4 million pigs out there. Some sources I have found say that you can easily double that number and it still be reasonable.

I won't get into asian Carp. :eek:
 
Pyre said:
They're an invasive species. They were brought to south florida as exotic pets and the idiots who bought them released them into the wild when they grew too big. They breed like crazy and eat anything that moves. Hunting them is a good thing.
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not all of them were released by "the idiots who bought them". petshops, zoos, and breeders get hit by hurricanes, too. some idiots actually know what they're doing, and can care for a larg burmese or reticulated python.
i blame the sellers more than the buyers. "they won't get too big, as long as you keep 'em in a small cage, and don't feed 'em too much"...

can't believe there isn't an open season on them in florida. seems they'd be regulated like feral hogs...
 
they probably have a short season experimentally, so that bubba doesn't go in there and mow down every snake and big lizard that he sees, native and non-native alike.

poaching is more exciting anyways. :D:thumbup:

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I snkehunt with knives only. Could someone plese tell me what I would have to do to Knife Snake Hunt a Python legally in the Everglades! I beg you!! You can PM me or whatever! Thanks!
 
amcardon said:
And I don't know how many people I heard that had tags said they would shoot 10 before they reported 1... Wolves are a freaking menace and a plague in Idaho...
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smoke a pack a day, or shoot shovel and shut up... they have so many sayings that are funny and sad at the same time. I think wolves are beautiful animals, but they are clearly out of control. A farm in northern Idaho lost a 127-strong herd of sheep to wolves, that were killed for sport. Only the udders off of the females were eaten, the rest were left to rot. The whole pack mentality when coupled with lack of food and ever encroaching marked territory means crazed pure-breed killers. People that don't live here don't understand, but there is no longer a moose or mountain goat population in idaho, and the elk and deer herds have been cut in half. The bears and lions are pissed off and starving.
 
Carney C said:
I snkehunt with knives only. Could someone plese tell me what I would have to do to Knife Snake Hunt a Python legally in the Everglades! I beg you!! You can PM me or whatever! Thanks!
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a nice tomahawk with a 23 inch haft... or just a shovel... pythons are unbelievably fast and strong, so if you can cut the head off before they constrict you, IE get some standoff...
 
PayetteRucker said:
a nice tomahawk with a 23 inch haft... or just a shovel... pythons are unbelievably fast and strong, so if you can cut the head off before they constrict you, IE get some standoff...
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Can do it with a Super Bowie Bro! I am ready!! Only hunt with knives, & I have been wanting a python for awhle! If anyone knows if they let you hunt with knives, please pm me, GOD Bless! :D
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