The Python (not the gun) Challenge

[MaxMan]

Top prize $ 10,000. No firearms though.
https://flpythonchallenge.org/

 

[ex13F]

 

[MaxMan]

Not sure what the video on top is from but it reminded me of a land owners meeting we had. The speaker was a herpetologist who had his own collection and was even licensed to keep venomous snakes. He showed some of the common snakes in the area and encouraged people not to kill them.
For his finale he opened a crate and dropped a 6 foot eastern diamond back on the floor in front of everyone. At the end he encouraged people to not kill even the rattlesnakes if they were out away from their houses. but if one was around the house, if you did kill it "don't let him go to waste, skin it and eat him" The video looked like the reaction. The floor to the old schoolhouse was wooded and waxed so try as it would the snake could not go anywhere. It was a time and place where after the shock people didn't sue, call the cops, report people or anything thing, They actually just kidded each other about their reactions.

 

[GunnyGene]

From the website:

Pithing is an additional technique meant to cause death by increasing substantial destruction of the brain and brainstem. The goal of pithing is to render the cerebral cortex and brain stem nonfunctional.


Regardless of the tool you chose for Step 1, you must immediately complete the following process of pithing to substantially destroy the brain and humanely kill the python:

• Insert a small rod (a rigid, metal tool like a screwdriver, spike or pick of sufficient length) into the cranial cavity.
• Use deliberate, multi-directional movement, move the rod forward along the left and right sides of the brain and then toward the brainstem, ensuring substantial destruction of the brain.

Personally, I'd prefer a standoff weapon. 12gauge 00 buck.

 

[themousethatroared]

It seems like the federal government would have already investigated this issue and designed something that could be dropped from ten thousand feet onto the area that would shred the earth to a depth of twelve or so feet leaving no granule larger than a quarter inch square, and they would give it a cute name like "digging dandelion chopper"...

...because nucular (sic) weapons would work, but you have to wait so long for them to dissipate.

 

[bobski]

screwdriver is too short. need a long shaft driver.

 

[Titus]

Top prize $ 10,000. No firearms though.
https://flpythonchallenge.org/

the no firearms thing is hell sketchy, would be way easier if i can just shoot it.

 

[MaxMan]

the no firearms thing is hell sketchy, would be way easier if i can just shoot it.

I guess they don't want people shooting each other. Uh his leg looked like a snake.

 

[MaxMan]

screwdriver is too short. need a long shaft driver.

 

[Fox Mike]

Personally I feel that bringing a screwdriver to a snake hunt is a lot like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

 

[pyth0n]

Darn, it would have been fitting to use my Python to hunt Python.

 

[contender]

I was reading some of the rules,, and air guns are permitted to some degree. I'd say that some of the modern airguns would be quite effective.

But in general,, you will have to be fairly knowledgeable about the habitat & places you can find these snakes to be successful.

 

[Titus]

I guess they don't want people shooting each other. Uh his leg looked like a snake.

surly the judge would understand if i used that statement, (his leg looked like a snake)

 

[XUSNORDIE]

but if one was around the house, if you did kill it "don't let him go to waste, skin it and eat him"

I hope he showed them how to properly kill a venomous snake to edible......or there would be some belly aches for sure...trust me I know. Never eat snake you didn't harvest yourself or with those you trust.

. I'd say that some of the modern airguns would be quite effective.

I agree.....but not the ones on a Walmart shelf.


Personally I will not kill a snake, even the Timbers, Copperheads or Cottonmouths we run across. Only saw one Copperhead, and a few Timbers on my property. Relocated them further back into the woods. I scouted/hunted swampy areas in VA Beach when I was stationed there and lived there. Ran across Cottonmouths a lot. Property owners wanted me to kill every one I saw....I just walked around them and let them be.....

 

[blume357]

Little side note about these snakes... a good number of years back I was down home and read in the Aiken S.C. paper that the Savanah River Plant (this is where we make our plutonium) had brought in some Florida pythons to see if they could live this far north.... The bumm plant as we called it back in the 70's is a massive area just below and east of Augusta Ga. Mostly woods and swamp. Couple of years later I saw a small note in the same paper that it seems they, the snakes, had disappeared....

 

[gjgalligan]

screwdriver is too short. need a long shaft driver.

I have never seen a 50ft screwdriver, who makes them?