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Python Challenge

 

South Florida Water Management District is holding a 60 day “Python Challenge”, affording a select group of 25 snake hunters the opportunity to “catch and remove” invasive giant snakes.  These two recently caught a 15-foot, 144-pound, Burmese Python that had no business living in the everglades.

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They aren’t pets when they get loose in the environment, they’re apex predators.

 

 

33 Comments on Python Challenge

  1. I reached in the pool skimmer just yesterday, pulled out the basket and then noticed the coral snake. He was small but Im wondering where mom and pop are. Ive been in Fl since 72 and there is always a black snake around. Other than that …

  2. Uncle Al,
    I’ve got something special for those little piggies. However my brother lives in Bradenton and occasionally pig hunts. I don’t think he’s ever shot one.

  3. Wow, Brad. Had no idea you were that old to give a personal account!.

    Of course Eden had alligators. No animals ate meat at that time. All were friendly towards man.

    That changed when Noah and Co. got off the Ark and the rules change between man and beast.

    When it became OK for man and animal to eat meat.

    Gen 8: 1-3
    1: And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

    2: And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

    3: Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

    That’s what the Bible says. Unless you know more than God on this point?

  4. Bond Arms

    hahah Only a fool would go after a multi-foot python with with a two round limit before reload.

    I think you’re going to need more than a shot or two with these babies.

    Maybe a .44 mag with light-ish hollow points, if a pistol. A semi-auto shotty sounds about right. Remove the limiter in the mag if it has one. I would definitely carry a freshly sharpened, heavy machete no matter the firearm.

    There would be no live catching, if I’m at it.

  5. Only good snake is a dead one. Even garden snakes oogie me out. I was bit by a copper head when I was a kid and to this day I keep the little 22 5-shot derringer with snake shot close just in case.

    Apply one or 2 to the head and “viola” you have created a good snake.

  6. Holy Mother Mary and Joseph. Didnt know Obamas grew that big. And I thought the bugs were bad in florida.

    I am much more comfortable with kangaroos and mountain lions and jackalopes here on the range.

  7. Al, I have a solution to the feral hog problem.
    The Middle East has refugees that want to come here, we have feral hogs that want to go there, and live along their rivers and grunt in the shallows.
    Dart them and drop them off by the thousands, and turn the rest into aerosols to crop dust the areas ISIS lives

  8. My brother lost a bull snake that was about 5 or 6 ft. long inside a crawl space upstairs in our house where we slept. We never saw the snake again until we saw a snake that had been run over by a car out in the street in front of our house. We think it was the same snake. He also freaked my Mom out one time when she found a frozen snake in the freezer all rolled up, he was going to eat it, she made him throw it away.

  9. I met a friend who was passing through town in a rented box truck. After lunch we went out to his truck to say our farewells and he opened the passenger door. On the inside step-well was a 3 foot ball python curled up. I called the local pet store and they sent someone to get it. They said it’s common for snakes to escape during a move and find their way into the dash console, then slither/fall out during a subsequent rental.

  10. Reminds me of the old story about a fashion obsessed FL blonde. She wanted some alligator shoes but couldn’t afford them so she got some ‘gator permits and began to haunt the sloughs along roadways with her shotgun. A LEO happened to pass by her one day as she was pursuing her goal. She had a pile of 7 big dead ‘gators stacked up by her car. She was standing there looking angry and confused. He stopped, approached her and asked, “Ma’am, what in the world are you doing?”. She replied, “Officer, perhaps you can help me. I got a bunch of gator permits so I could hunt for some ‘gator shoes. As you can see, I’ve killed seven of these ugly bastards and not one of ’em was wearing shoes! Can you give me some advice?”.

  11. You don’t want to cross a hungry one, those things
    will fark you up. A python that big is eating dogs
    and pigs.
    I had a four foot rock python that I didn’t power
    feed. They eat about weekly depending on the size of
    what they whack. You want to catch them during a post
    feeding when they are lazy. Python skin boots look
    pretty nice also!

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