Homeland/Interior Snake Subjugation

[Jamie B]

What caliber for a twelve foot python?

Where do you aim? The head?

Bullshite! If I encounter a 12 foot python, I am leaving, quickly.

[Tallpine]

.45 to the base of the head. Or an axe.

Snakes have very few vitals  

It's kinda like trying to kill somebody by shooting them in the leg.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

the handle on an axe is wayyyy too short

[Harold Tuttle]

Machete

[BlueStarLizzard]

the handle on an axe is wayyyy too short

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

need more handle   i killed a copperhead with an axe and the handle seemed real short all at once

[Harold Tuttle]

18 volt powered chainsaw lopper

[BlueStarLizzard]

need more handle   i killed a copperhead with an axe and the handle seemed real short all at once

Is this better?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halberd 

[Tallpine]

need more handle   i killed a copperhead with an axe and the handle seemed real short all at once

All you need to do is let the snake wrap itself around you, and then you can stab it in the top of the head with a pocket knife.

 

[RoadKingLarry]

That's what I was wondering.

Short of baiting them with live tethered critters I'm not sure what the options are for tracking them.

We used to get some big Black Snakes in the chicken house.

How to catch a Black Snake.
Attach a #2 fish hook to a thin wire leader.
Attach wire leader to a solid anchor.
Poke small hole in egg, carefully insert fish hook.
enjoy the hilarity.

[Ron]

There is no freaking way I am attacking a 12 foot python with an axe!!

I'm liking the 12 gauge loaded with 00 buckshot. I'm not seeing any other option other than a head shot, better yet, multiple head shots.

[roo_ster]

need more handle   i killed a copperhead with an axe and the handle seemed real short all at once

Yes, indeed.

For big pythons, I might move on down to 12ga #4 buckshot, so there is less void space in the pattern.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Is this better?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halberd 

barely adequate

i was thinking
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/325/a/9/thermite_grenade_by_crafter08-d33bs7q.jpg

[tokugawa]

Stihl. or Husky. 30 inch bar. splatter glasses.  No problem.

[RocketMan]

need a yuppie snake cookbook

How about yuppies for snake bait? 

[BlueStarLizzard]

How about yuppies for snake bait? 

No matter how destructive the pythons are, they still deserve a clean kill without being tortured first.

[seeker_two]

No matter how destructive the pythons are, they still deserve a clean kill without being tortured first.

What if you saw it swallowing a kitten?......

[never_retreat]

Could be worse. I would call in an air strike.

[Perd Hapley]

What if you saw it swallowing a kitten?......

Then applause would be appropriate, I guess? 

[41magsnub]

I don’t know what the right number is but for the sake of argument if we had a hunting season in which you could bring in unlimited number of Burmese pythons for $50 per pound, my hunch is Burmese pythons would be erecting memorials to the great snake genocide of 2012.

I'm confused by this comment..  does this guy think that a hunter is going to pay $50/lb for the privilege to hunt an invasive species?  Is it supposed to be a $50/lb bounty to the hunter?  Either way doesn't make much sense.

[charby]

weanies all you need is

[Viking]

I'm confused by this comment..  does this guy think that a hunter is going to pay $50/lb for the privilege to hunt an invasive species?  Is it supposed to be a $50/lb bounty to the hunter?  Either way doesn't make much sense.

I think he meant "Kill a snake, and you'll get $50/lb for it when you bring it in".

[roo_ster]

Could be worse. I would call in an air strike.

That one got my EEEEEEIIIIIIAAAAA!!!!!-o-meter to peg.

[Perd Hapley]

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[BlueStarLizzard]

weanies all you need is

Go ahead, charbs.

I'll stand waaayyyy back here and hold your beer.

(i hope the snake eats him before this beer gets warm. I hate drinking warm beer)