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i would rather kill these snakes with a shotgun or a machete .

Cause the tourist love this schit.



The show must go on.

Gotta give them sumtin to go home and talk about.
This was a mother with her two daughters, can you imagine how dad took it when they got back from their 1 hour guided canoe trip and told him how it went.

The kids love it.



Mixed bag of comments on Trip Advisor, mostly good.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attract...Ape_Research_Center-Ochopee_Florida.html

Bring beer...

R…I’m with you and Skeen, a judge handgun or auto loader .22 birds shot.
The night I was watching them catching by hand I was thinking a long wood handle with a pair of very sharp jaws that are spring loaded. Open, set jaws, hit snake behind the head jaws release and decapitate. Done deal. They’d go in the bag real easy I’d imagine.
F those snakes.

Osky

Flave wasn't skeered when he stopped In, neither were his kids.

I caught a 2' water snake in a minnow trap today.

It drownt.

Cool snakes Jeff. I remember the pic of the Deflaves.


Frank had python boots, couldn't get them off, caught a case of Stinkfoot.

Python boots will do that to a fella.

A quote of Jim on “Wild Kingdom” on an episode where Marlin Perkins is catching monster snakes…

“If I don’t help Marlin, he will surely be killed!” 😁

I think I read somewhere that in order for the licensed trappers to get paid, they need to be turned in alive to get the reward money.
The snakes are studied and euthanized humanely and the skins sold and other stuff done with them.
Would be kind of hard to do with a carcass that's been dead for two days.

That Python Cowboy on YT does kill most of what he catches from what he has said on some of his videos.

Those snake charmers were nakkid!

Yes, I recall the event but that was actually a Anaconda.

We got those in the Glades too if that's your preference.

I didn't think anybuddy would take notice.

I gotta be 100% completely honest here, this was all Flaves fault!

We caught him on the security cameras randomly putting these odd packages under the bushes here and there.

He didn't think anyone was around but we saw him..



Well low and behold what'd ya think was in those strange white boxes?



He'd baited the whole place out with tranny attractor, we searched around and collected all of it we could find but it was too late, it's some powerful stuff, the damage was done.



Ever since then all these semi, not really attractive at all women have been showing up in droves.

#Flavedidit

Does anyone just shoot them.

Always figured if I was gonna hunt them it would be with a short 12 or 20ga single shot. Nice light load of #8s would do it.


Up a tree? Bang! Done.
In a canal? Bang!
Can only see part of it. Bang!
In the middle.
It will show its head now.
If it doesn't, it'll all be good by tomorrow!

it's pretty much open season on the bastards now, but for years, the State mandated that the snakes be caught and turned in for research. That was, of course, dumber than a box of rocks and allowed the snakes to really secure a firm hold on the Everglades and other areas of South FL.
A .22 with birdshot is useless. Shotgun with BB seems to work well. A big 'un can be a handful, and is capable of really hurting you. Working alone is not always a good idea.

Has anyone else noticed in that video where they are carrying in the white boxes, the little girl getting smacked in the head in the background?

While I was working in Florida in a rural county along the gulf coast, I kept a Mossberg Shockwave 12 ga pump in my work truck for such emergencies........I never knew just what I might come across out there. First load up was a load of #6's, followed by 2 rounds of #4 Buck and then 2 slugs. Handy compact shotgun that performed admirably in its duties!


Frog---OUT!

What the law requires is this.

There is an ethical and legal obligation to ensure nonnative reptiles are killed in a humane manner.

The standard anti-cruelty law is required to be followed, it's the only law enforced when hunting these snakes.

To follow the law it's a two step process.

Step 1- Your method should result in the animal losing consciousness immediately.

Step 2- You should then destroy the animal's brain by “pithing” which prevents the animal from regaining consciousness.

Fish and games wording of guidelines states "We highly encourage capture followed by legal euthanization".

You'll be arrested for sure if caught transporting one alive so it must be killed and removed from the area.

These snake can have as many as 100 eggs inside them which in theory could hatch as the deterioration process takes place with a dead snake.

Being most hunters are challenged by successfully accomplishing a lung shot on a deer let alone a heart shot, Fish and Game knows this and is well aware you're not likely to be capable of a brain shot on a snake.

No brain shot, no ethical kill, animal cruelty charges apply.

You can go out and take pot-shots at snakes all you want but it'd just be for your own jollies being they will disappear on you in a flash if not rendered unconscious with the first shot.

Then you've not removed the potentially egg filled snake from the environment and done no one any favors.

Wow.........^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Very interesting especially the eggs being able to hatch after it's dead

Still.......hate snakes

not that many pythons up in the big bend area, but as I recall, you were deadly on those moccasins.