Everglades python hunting season

lol carneyc you got some big balls for sure. i am not sure what's in the water down south but you folks and your only knife hunting status is crazy. i went out with my buddy in the army and went to florida to hog hunt. man we went out in the woods with no guns and some dogs. they wait for the dogs to bay em up and then jump on the hog and kill them with a knife(i have hog hunted a lot but mainly with my 6.8 or 458 socom :). i was like wtf are you crazy folks doing down here lol. i did it one time cause i didn't want to look like a pu$$y and it was fun but man i would just as soon shoot them and eat the bacon.

my hats off to you sir as i am not messing with rattlers or a big ass croc with just a knife
 
Gee, I guess knives would be ok, but I see nothing wrong with a sweet little 20guage and your choice of shot. head shots of coarse.
 
Not meaning anything by it but I really fail to see the attraction to killing these snakes, seems to me not to be much challenge. I've killed lots of snakes, a good limber stick does as well as anything. Seems to me something that needs to be done but I wouldn't get any pleasure, or sense of accomplishment from it. Shooting rats is more fun, at least they are a lively target, a snake just lays still, or at the most, trys to hide till you walk up and bash it's head in, unless these are different than the ones I've killed. Chris
 
I have killed some very violent snakes, & we ate them in the woods. So not just for thrills. But in survival in the swamps, snakes are an "opprotunity" kill for food! & yes, it is fun too!!!
 
Hey Florida fellas, whats this I am hearing about King Cobras down there? Any truth to the rumors there is a population?
 
The Chef said:
Hey Florida fellas, whats this I am hearing about King Cobras down there? Any truth to the rumors there is a population?
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Yes, unfortunately. I don't have any data to refer to but I did watch a documentary on NGC that mentioned this. Pretty much, all sorts of craziness is thriving from Orlando down to the end.

Two or three years ago a 25' cobra was found inside a man's garage when he came home from work. The man shot the hell out of it. The news confirmed that the cobra was 25 feet long. That's the craziest story I've ever heard of down here. A F-ing cobra 25 feet long...who ever heard of such a thing...crazy.
 
I think I saw that same show...... one guy was even bitten by a Green Mamba.
They figured it had escaped from some place that was damaged during a hurricane.

What next............ :eek:
 
Bros, Its getting so crazy down here that they are selling anti-venom at the quikie mart next to the skoal...:D
 
@Joezilla
What boots are you wearing? You and the other dude in red t-shirt? I assume you´re the one in yellow t-shirt...
 
August West said:
... a snake just lays still, or at the most, trys to hide till you walk up and bash it's head in...
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Reminded me of a picture I once saw of Fred Bear bowhunting an alligator - he was standing up, had his bow at full draw, aiming at an alligator lying in the water about two feet from the boat.
 
The pythons we got weren't really ....edible. You would open them up and it was nematode city. We were going to chow down until we saw that, so we ended up chumming for sharks. Those snakes aren't a problem to tackle with a knife. Even the big ones kinda strike half-assed and as long as you can move on your feet, a machete is no problem.

All of the pythons can climb, and what you have is a large super predator that filled a niche that was void. The migratory birds in the trees are falling victim to this new invader pretty hard.
There was talk of an everglades canoe trip a while back.
 
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The sale of these exotics should be illegal. But money rules. The whole thing is very sad.
 
Alright, it makes sense that the snakes are becoming a nuissance. However, is it even possible to put a dent in their population? If everyone who dislikes the pythons kills every one they see, will it matter, or is this up to Nature to deal with now?

If you live in an area where the waters are full of alligators is the python any worse? I would think they are less dangerous to people, seeing as how they can't fit us down their throat thanks to our shoulders.

The sale of these exotics should be illegal.
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The same could be said about guns :mad:

Snakes are fine, so long as they are kept responsibly. Someone already mentioned that the sellers are mostly to blame, and they are. They often don't fully inform people about what they are buying, and sell to kids who can't possibly understand what they are getting into. I do think that big snakes should be microchipped so that if they escape the owner could be held responsible. Pet snakes basically spend their waking hours trying to get out of their tanks, and they often succeed if the owner does not properly latch or weigh the lid down. Let the cost fall to the owners.

If exotic pets are banned, they go along with cars dogs greater than 20 lbs, cars with more than 100 horsepower, houses over 2000 sqft, guns, knives longer than 2", pointy sticks, and anything else one group of people or another doesn't agree with and thinks that no one "needs".
 
C_Kyle said:
Two or three years ago a 25' cobra was found inside a man's garage when he came home from work. The man shot the hell out of it. The news confirmed that the cobra was 25 feet long. That's the craziest story I've ever heard of down here. A F-ing cobra 25 feet long...who ever heard of such a thing...crazy.
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Do you have a link? A 25' cobra would be a record. As with any big animal, the size is easily (and often) exaggerated.
 
RatDrall said:
AlrightHowever, is it even possible to put a dent in their population? If everyone who dislikes the pythons kills every one they see, will it matter, or is this up to Nature to deal with now?
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People managed to pretty much wipe out wolves in the lower 48. Sure, some of that had to do with habitat loss but the recent resurgence of populations in areas where they have been reintroduced would indicate that hunting and bounties were a big part of it. So, I don't see why we could not do the same to these snakes.

If you live in an area where the waters are full of alligators is the python any worse? I would think they are less dangerous to people, seeing as how they can't fit us down their throat thanks to our shoulders.
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Its not humans that are at risk. Its all the native wildlife (birds and small mamals, especially) that is being decimated.

Someone already mentioned that the sellers are mostly to blame, and they are.
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Sorry, I don't buy that (no pun intended). Its the people who let them go that are to blame. I don't care if they "didn't know" how big the snakes would get or how much work keeping them was. It was not the sellers responsibility to educate them, it was the buyer's responsibility to learn what was involved before they bought the things. On top of that, there are responsible ways to get rid of unwanted exotic pets (sell it back to the pet store, sell it to someone else, give it to a zoo, or if nothing else turn it in to the local animal control shelter). Just releasing it into the wild is totally irresponsible. :grumpy:
 
mdauben said:
Sorry, I don't buy that (no pun intended). Its the people who let them go that are to blame. I don't care if they "didn't know" how big the snakes would get or how much work keeping them was. It was not the sellers responsibility to educate them, it was the buyer's responsibility to learn what was involved before they bought the things. On top of that, there are responsible ways to get rid of unwanted exotic pets (sell it back to the pet store, sell it to someone else, give it to a zoo, or if nothing else turn it in to the local animal control shelter). Just releasing it into the wild is totally irresponsible. :grumpy:
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I never said that it was a good idea to release exotic imported critters into the wild, but I can attest to the fact that a lot of the sellers of these animals give them to anyone, to the detriment of the hobby.
 
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