What gun for python?
It’s apparently python season in Florida. No, really.
Update: Increased level of difficulty since no centerfire is allowed.
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March 8th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Taurus Judge? Or an M4gery with a chainsaw attachment…
March 8th, 2010 at 11:03 am
The biggest one I can get my hands on! With explosive bullets if possible.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:49 am
I’m surprised that there even IS a season for an introduced invasive species. You’d think Florida Game wardens and park rangers would be happy about every one that gets killed, no matter the season.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Heh! Yes, pythons. People have been buying young reticulated pythons as pet, and when they got too large, they turned them loose in the Everglades, Now, there’s a stable population of the giant snakes living in Florida.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Then I go and read the story, and it’s all kinds of pythons, and a Nile Monitor as well!
March 8th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
When is BoA (Bank of America) season? I really need to find a better bank.
March 8th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Saw a PBS show on them, pythons were 15 foot, eating ‘gators. I say 12 gauge, double-ought.
The “Aliens” equivalent of scrambling the spaceship and nuking them from orbit.
March 8th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
I’m surprised no one has suggested the obvious choice of a Colt Python yet.
(And I say that as an unabashed S&W fanboy.)
March 8th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
If you’re really wanting to go badass, make like Turok and use a really big ass KaBar.
A guy I used to work for who was in Vietnam and Thailand said they killed a python in the village he was working with trying to teach them to set up ambushes the VC. They’re doing a drill, and suddenly the whole village went nuts celebrating. He’s like what the hell guys, focus!
The interpreter told him they meant no disrespect, but a python was reason to celebrate. They were hungry, and the whole village was going to eat for a week.
And yes, he said it tasted like chicken.
March 8th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?
Gotta go with a 12 gauge pump with extended mag (regs permitting), 00 buck, 3 1/2 mag shells for the snakes and a .22 mag with red-dot sight for lizard.
March 8th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Of course, a Colt Python…why would one use anything else?
March 8th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
actually it’s no centerfire RIFLES, centerfire pistols and smoothbores are ok.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Turns out the python poses the same threat that other top of the food chain creatures pose–mercury contamination.
At least you can make some cool snakeskin boots. Sweet.
March 8th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
@Sebastiantgwnb: This is why when I eat fish, I try to eat mostly sardines, and some herring. Respect your fellow carnivores, though they might be a bit mental from the Hg poisoning.
March 8th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Maybe the reason it all tastes like chicken is the Hg. 🙂
One more reason to eat as low on the food chain as you can. I try to, but certainly enjoy a good sushi here and again.
March 8th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Screw the boots, Seb, I want a matching belt and holster.
March 9th, 2010 at 4:56 am
Almost any yard-care implement will do for a python, especially on a cool day. Sure, a Kabar is nice, but with a cane cutter or even a pointy shovel, man versus python is pretty one-sided. I’d go with a heavy machete (that I got for $5.95 at Callahan’s here in Austin) or my hookbill ditch weeder.
Or perhaps a Kaiser blade. Some folks call it a swing blade, mmmmm-hmmmmmm.
March 9th, 2010 at 8:35 am
“I’m surprised that there even IS a season for an introduced invasive species.”
There is no season on private land, or restriction as to method of taking (subject to local weapon laws). The only season is on state Wildlife Management Areas which are patrolled and managed by the state.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
The videographer is my boy Joe Cavaretta from the Sun-Sentinel. We go way back in the biz and had an adventurous couple of years roaming the backroads of New Mexico’s Indian reservations for the late great Albuquerque Tribune.
March 9th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Hey guys, do these $900 python pants make my ass look fat?
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Little Jerry
March 9th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Mikee: You’re in Austin? Maybe we should meet up sometime for french fried potaters, mmmmmmm-hmmmmm.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:46 am
I like spiders and snakes
But that ain’t what it takes to love me.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:47 am
ok, truth! Spiders scare me silly, snakes and I have an agreement, leave me alone I won’t kill you. No such agreement with spiders.