Not......Classified Cowboys

Those guys in Florida catching them there big snakes

I'm thing Didigtal Dan is after 'em ?

With his 22 LR reloads

They should relocate some of those to Portland.

Could help solve the "homeless" problem.

L I K E

hell ya

This is better than hands....

We're all over them snakes down here..

I’ve seen them on the tv getting after those snakes. Seems to me a .22 with birdshot shells would make that activity a bit more pleasant.

Osky

This is Goldie, she's almost 25ft now and a whopping 350 pounds.
Currently the largest known to be in captivity.

You can stop by and check her out at Skunkape Headquarters in the Glades, bring beer.

Skunkape Headquarters was one of the last know locations of Flave, so maybe he's there too.

Haha, I though you meant boots.🤷

I'm with ya, Osky. No snake wrastlin' here.

Soooo why do they catch them and just not shoot them?

shoot 'em sounds like the best option

We capture them, toss them in cages and charge tourists to look at um...

Gotta be licensed to keep them, everybody else has to kill them.

Kool...........I'd put a boolit in their head

Hate snakes

Big damn snake

I was thinking a 12 gauge. I hate snakes! Why do they have to catch them and keep them alive if they are trying to eradicate them?

Makes for better TV drama to catch them alive. I bet as soon as they are bagged the camera goes off and they get a bullet in the head.

Empty the 17 rd 9mm mag in 'em

Call it good

This was a African Rock Python, we called him Rocky.
He just up and died one day, so we skinned him out.
He was 15'7".


I cut a sheet of plywood in half to flesh him out on, so the wood in the image is 24"x16ft.


There goes a couple of tourist now, they love them snakes.

😳

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.

Didn't he deliver Bud Light there ?

Miss Lynn wants to know if you are looking foe python Wraglers or Python Riders?

Why do you think he's wearing a sweatshirt in south Floriduh?





The "therapy" has begun...

Skeeters carry badd schidt

I am at a loss for words.

Is that the first Python you've seen?

What this tells me is Florida F&G is as goofy as PGC.

Sure, we can talk optimum, and the slim possibility it's a female snake, she has eggs,
the eggs are viable, and the stars will align for them to hatch.

Weigh that against someone like myself who is not gonna play with a big snake.
Is not gonna surgically kill one, so is either going to club it, chop it, or shoot it.

NO, NO NO!!

OK, so I just let it go?

Fugg that!

A 12 gauge to the head should cover most of the important parts of the brain rendering it incapacitated instantly and no snake wrestling involved.

I didn't make the rule, I just copy and pasted it here.

There's just one, you don't even have to be a resident or have a license even..

Tranny fluid Travis, has a nice ring to it !

Biggest Rock I've seen. Lucy is a reticulated python. Don't think I've seen one come out of the wilds in Florida. Only burmese. No green or yellow anaconda's either. Only Burmese which like iguana's are very very prolific!!! The, eh " ladies " are " posing " with a yellow headed retic.....................Whew

So the eggs hatch inside a dead mama. Sounds incredulous right there. Then what? Eat their way out? Head for the exit, or entrance?

And humanly “euthanized”. Got to be a “can’t we just live with the predators” behind that. Immediately unconscious? Who’s kidding who? “Yessir I blowed that head right off. Second shot in the middle was a accident”. Somehow it comes to me that there’s probly a lot of bayou boys practicing 1/3 of SSS.

Being the invasive snakes population supposedly got its start in the Glades due to released pets and Pythons are the most popular pet snake it's not surprising it's the most common found.

We have captured a mixed bag of species, mostly through tips from observers that spot them in the canals along US 41 in the Glades. We've collected a few Anaconda's.

Park Service makes themselves pretty unavailable so people just stop in and inform us of their sightings.

These snakes along the road could easily have been very recently released by their owners.

The Burmese Python may be far more prolific due to the adult snake staying with it's eggs until hatched.

Not many snakes do this.

Egg predation with snakes runs much like the Alligators, it's about their only enemy.

Racoons, Possums, and a host of other varmints feast on their eggs. Fire Ants are a huge predator of eggs, they're vicious.

Both the Gators and Snakes lay their eggs on high ground, the rise and fall of water levels due to storms cause these ants to move to these higher locations and they find the eggs.

They create rafts on the floods that can consist of thousands of ants.



That many ants making landfall on a nest of eggs will make short work of destroying every egg in the nest.

Idunno is the Pythons staying with their eggs make them less vulnerable to the Fire Ants but it sure as hell helps with keeping other small animals from attacking their eggs.

This could be a major factor with the Pythons being King of the Glades, they care for their young.

The theory is the heat generated by the snakes decomposing could keep the eggs warm enough to survive until the body completely decomposes, then the eggs could hatch.

But considering the Fire Ants are sure to attack the decomposing body, consuming both the flesh and eggs it's doubly doubtful.

I pulled the entire idea outta my azz while composing the post, you know, writer enhancement.
Congratulations on your reader comprehension skills, it's rare in these parts. The whole theory is total bullschit, people will believe anything.


Of Course!

The State sponsored 'Florida Python Challenge offers a $10,000.00 reward for the most snakes captured.

You bet they were attack by the Greenies and Barkeaters alike.
They swarmed them like Fire Ants, State funds for killing innocent snakes?

And that was the origin of that rule, otherwise nobuddy of given a schit.


And they do, just not during the Python Challenge event.

Check out the link, see if you can pass the quiz to qualify to go after the $10,000.00.

There are multible cash categories.

Here are some past winners.

Liked the site but couldn’t find the quiz. No matter, I’d qualify as an amateur observer probably cause I care nothing at all about wandering the Everglades at night. And yes, I saw where the 3 step euthanasia boogie came from. Amazing how a large number of ignorant people with loud voices can overcome logical actions. I’ll try to get the training course up later. Sounds fun.

I've wandered the Everglades and other flood prone Florida coastal regions at night.

There have been times it was by choice and times it was scrambling to secure valuables during late night storm surges.

I've never encountered a snake during those times but I have ran into the rafts if Fire Ants.

I think I'd rather it been snakes, a couple thousand Fire Ants scrambling up your legs in the dark, biting the crap outta you before you even knew they were there is far worse than wrestling a non venomous reptile in the dark.

Just a tip i n case ya ever change your mind and decide to wander around Florida.

I bumped into one of those rafts of fire ants while running trot lines, it was not fun.

Kaa was a badass.




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Actually Jeff I will probably be roaming north FL a little sometime this summer. Moving somewhere in the Yulee, Callahan, MacClenny, Nocatee areas as soon as we find the right place. Dang housing prices around there are crazy but daughter and new grandson are there so away we go.

If you could stretch your search area to the west as far as Lake City, you'll find a considerable price differance in real-estate and a refreshing landscape change.

At 60 miles away from Jax it gets you out of daily babysitting detail but you can be there in right at an hour with a direct shot interstate route.

Lake City Property For Sale

Pay attention to county property tax rates, they vary wildly

Jax = Duval County $250K home taxed @ $2125.00

Lake City = Suwanee County $250K home taxed @ $1675.00

http://www.tax-rates.org/florida/property-tax#counties

Florida Homestead Tax Exemptions

when you get settled in Shootem, holler. I'm right down the road.

Yeah, Doooooo-vaaaaal taxes and prices don’t doo much for me. I-95 corridor attracts a unique group. Looking in Nassau and Baker counties it’s a lot better. But MacClenny is really about our limit on travel even with wife and I being retired and picking times. I have scanned properties as far over as Starke and Lake City. Amazing difference in prices and taxes. We have just about decided to rent and see what happens with the fed in the next month or two. Another half point up and real estate could be hurt. Don’t wish that on anyone but don’t want empty pockets if it does. Thanks for the recent links.

Can’t begin to guess when we’ll be settled. This move has so far taken over about a year of my life. Looks like we may have a decent deal on a house to rent at least. Elderly friend of a friend who’s unfortunately in assisted living after a fall with various other issues. May get it on good terms month 2 month as long as she’s away. Thanks for the invite.