Python

[Deltahuntr]

But unless I'm wrong, we put
Same here in bama. They "want them gone" but they upgraded them from a non game to a game animal with state protections, won't let you hunt them year round on state land, and won't let you hunt them with anything but archery tackle or rimfire weapons most of the season...

Tell me and the rest of the river rats that you can shoot them year round with an 06. The population wouldn't increase...

Pigs in government protecting pigs in the swamp!

Try a smaller quieter gun than the 06’ and fill your freezer.

 

[Deltahuntr]

There was significant monetary value in hunting alligators. I don't know but, I'm assuming python skin/meat doesn't have near the value or you would have every Tom, **** and Harry out hunting them. Of course then Florida would try to capitalize, sell tags and start managing them as a game species.

Edit: I see @EricS said the same thing as me seconds before I did.

Haha moderators minds think alike. I believe there would be monetary value in the skin but you are right that the state or federal government may try to impose some control or monetary gain from the hunting of python.

 

[will4554]

I don't know anything about pythons. But you are not controlling the hog population by hunting. I've seen estimates that Texas would have to kill 60% of the population each year, to maintain. Good luck. Trapping, and helicopter extermination are the only ways to do it. Kansas has a really good feral hog plan, it's been working for a while.

 

[kyler1945]

A search of the USGS site says Louisiana has 3 million acres of wetlands not all marsh. That doesn’t include the other coastal states (including Florida). I’m not trying to start an argument here but another reptile was shot to the brink of extinction in the same habitat.

alligators eat rotten meat. You can trap them.

I guess you could tie a live nutria rat to a post and hope a python eats it. But I imagine you’ll just catch gators.

hogs are a great comparison. They breed faster than it is currently possible to kill them. You can trap them all you want. If you don’t catch an entire sounder at a time, they’ll just scatter and repopulate. Same with these snakes.

 

[Deltahuntr]

alligators eat rotten meat. You can trap them.

I guess you could tie a live nutria rat to a post and hope a python eats it. But I imagine you’ll just catch gators.

hogs are a great comparison. They breed faster than it is currently possible to kill them. You can trap them all you want. If you don’t catch an entire sounder at a time, they’ll just scatter and repopulate. Same with these snakes.

Pythons would be harder to catch with a food source. What about trapping them with some sort of pheromone as a lure? Again technology has increased tremendously since the 1960’s. The hogs are can be controls through biological methods as well but the department of agriculture will not allow its release siting the possibility of domestic swine influence. The hogs are also protected through the government by limited land access, means of hunting/trapping and now in some places the game species status.

 

[Weldabeast]

I read an article about a experiment they did with a rock python..... They took it up to NC and put it in an outside enclosure during winter to see if it would survive. It balled up in the top of a tree and rode out the cold/snow and lived...... And now they think the burmese and rock python are interbreeding in the wild

 

[Deltahuntr]

I read an article about a experiment they did with a rock python..... They took it up to NC and put it in an outside enclosure during winter to see if it would survive. It balled up in the top of a tree and rode out the cold/snow and lived...... And now they think the burmese and rock python are interbreeding in the wild

The snakes developing the ability to survive the colder season north of the Everglades would be a bad.

 

[Weldabeast]

Hurrisnake would be way worse than a sharknado

 

[Blacksmith]

I'm Glad Ohio Doesn't Have Big Snakes. Don't Think I Could Navigate in the Dark W/ Something Like That Out There.

 

[bongo]

Well I hunt down there by myself 99% of the time and will walk through the water for a mile most of the time before daylight and use to go alot farther. Climb a Cypress or Pine tree sit till I can't stand it any more then get down and start looking for sign. Then climb up somewhere and sit till after dark.
I haven't seen a python yet but there are people that hunt them and catch alot. The biggest population is S of highway 41around Homestead in the grass but they have caught more and more all the way to Golden Gate.
There is no way to stop them because of where they are.
You can now hunt them year round with guns in the Big Cypress National Park you can Conceal Carry in the park. I always carry a 45 1911. They have started a program that you can sign up for and there will be a select few the state will pay to go hunt them.
I was down there last month and the ramps were closed to airboaters for high water unless you were a Python Hunter.
I'm working in S Louisiana now and if you don't know what the swamp looks like you can't imagine how the snakes can stay hidden. But if you have ever been in the Everglades or S Louisiana you can't imagine ever finding one.
The Panthers were pretty bad off up about 25 or 30 years ago. They had inter bread so much the blood line was terrible . They brought in about ten Cats from Texas about 10 years ago and now the places that were overrun with hogs have none under 150 lbs. The cats have eaten them and their working on the deer pop pretty good also.
So get ready to read about more snakes because I don't see any way to even slow down the growth much less stop it.
If you think you want to snake hunt it's available if you research it me not so much. But if I find one I'll skin her and put her on the wall.

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