Swamp ppl Serpent Invasion

What do you all think?

Interesting at first

I would invest in a snake grabber lol better yet just shootem

Exactly. Why no tongs?

Not a fan of snakes lol especially that dang big

Boy I'd Go do it!!!

I've always wanted to go West to just hunt Rattlers

Just explained a snake tongs to my wife,last night while we were watching the show.
I have used a snake tongs on the muskrat line,when reaching in a hut.Saved myself many times from a nasty bite.
I also never understood why they just don't shoot the snakes,unless they need them alive for the food market.
Tom

Ide prolly do it it just take me some liquid courage haha. Now ide go alligator fishing in a heart beat

When I read the title I thought it was another political post.

Lol that would be a good headline boco

A 12 ga would work better than hand catching em.

I have caught and sold rattlers. If they are not alive the buyers wont buy them. Something about resale as food. Most of the meat gets canned. sdome are used for venom collection. The rattles and skins are marketed also.

Snake tongs and safety make for poor TV. I used to think the Crocodile Hunter was a complete moron, for getting bit and crapped on so much, then I realized he was intentionally getting bit by reptiles that would make him bleed, but not seriously hut him. Steve Irwin was basically the professional wrestler equivalent for herpetologists.

Keith

Several years ago one of my brother in laws found a 10' reticulated python crossing the road . Evidently it dosnt take long in the wild for them to revert back to being wild . This one was pretty rank . I have alot of respect for those big constrictors .

I like troy. I met him at a concert a couple years ago. I wonder if he's on here? I watch it just to watch him do him job.

Nice

No tongs = drama

Steve Erwin was worth less than possum poo. Seen a tv show with him in it catching rattlers and going on and on about how round ups need to be stopped. OK for him to catch them but nobody else was supposed to. His daughter is a big animal rights advocate now.

I haven't seen the show this post references but I watched one about 6-8 years ago where they were catching alligators. After about 10 minutes it was so obvious that every thing they did was created drama for tv I quit watching.

:DHahaha it might be

Still somewhat entertaining

Sure don't surprise me at all about his daughter.

I Wish some of us could Snag a Show like that!!!!

Talk about manufactured drama!!!!

T.V. is all about drama. Just watch the news.

Thinking maybe they're not killing them because they could "recycle" a half dozen or so into several TV episodes... catch and release, and catch and release, and...

Might be

Pretty sure they take them in live to claim their bounty and then killed, that way there not getting paid more then once for the same snake

I doubt they recycle them,they are paid for each one.Some last night were over $400.00each.About 3 bucks a pound.
Tom

I'd So do That!!!

bei]

About 26 years back I had my Bride over to the Mayo Clinic. Met a fellow taxidermist there in town and he was supposed to take my All Purpose Boy hunting for Timber Rattlers in the rocky knobs off toward the Mississippi. We were scheduled to go the next afternoon and it ended up cancelled on account of some test my Bride was having. I wish I'd re-scheduled with the guy. I regret it to this day. We came home a couple days later, and he moved to Colorado. Dangit.

In Minnesota???

I would have a shallow forked stick, and a shotgun!

Step around a den on a warn day with a bunch around you buzzing it will make you pucker real quick. LOL

My son was mowing a lawn at a rental house. Grass was shin-high. Ran over an 8' python....choked down the 18 hp riding mower. Snake had escaped from nearby house.....didnt make it.

The thing about them snakes is they just keep moving around you get home and they freak you out when you pick them up in back of the truck.

Fun Stuff