Anybody planning to do the Python Challenge

[Maxman2]

Top prize $ 10,000. Buit no firearms.

https://flpythonchallenge.org/

 

[Kingshanks]

Godspeed to whoever shows up for that.

 

[Ultimate Boss]

Ten grand to catch pythons with your bare hands in Florida? I keep reading about it like something’s gonna change. I respect the contestants, from a safe distance though.

 

[A-300 Dave]

I don't think so!!! About all I would be good for is bait..... Y'all have fun.

 

[Diver43]

They need to make it so you can dispatch them in the Everglades. I used to live in south Florida and they really have decimated the local wildlife. The first thing you notice is, what happened tonthe birds.
Maybe no firearms, but a machete would make it simpler

 

[A-300 Dave]

If they catch these things with their hands the snakes remain alive, RIGHT. What on earth do they do with them?
I heard that those snakes literally can't stand 12 ga & triple ought buck shot - I know the rattlesnakes out my backside can't!!!

 

[gonepostal10309]

If they catch these things with their hands the snakes remain alive, RIGHT. What on earth do they do with them?
I heard that those snakes literally can't stand 12 ga & triple ought buck shot - I know the rattlesnakes out my backside can't!!!

 

[Porschedog]

The girl who won last year is tiny but fierce!

 

[A-300 Dave]

I must have missed something!! See if I have this correct - There is going to be a "Challenge" for people to wade around in the S. Fla. swamps and catch Pythons & Boas with their bare hands?? These snake obtain lengths of 20+ ft, mess with alligators eat deer and some "tiny" girl won this "challenge" last year!! What on earth do they do with these things after they catch them?? This is beyond sanity; however, 1/3 of the USA is thinking Socialism, so I guess this fits right in. I'm way to old for this line of thinking!!

 

[gonepostal10309]

Her name is Taylor Stanberry. I can dig a girl who likes to play with reptiles. Does anyone know the Motorhead song "Love Me Like a Reptile".

 

[Diver43]

If they catch these things with their hands the snakes remain alive, RIGHT. What on earth do they do with them?
I heard that those snakes literally can't stand 12 ga & triple ought buck shot - I know the rattlesnakes out my backside can't!!!

They had to turn them in alive. Seems the rules have changed in the right direction.

 

[gonepostal]

They are humanely euthanized. Probably just cut the heads off.

 

[Lee7588]

They are humanely euthanized. Probably just cut the heads off.

What is more humane than a shot to the head with a 22? Cut their heads off while they squirm, or put them in a freezer while they freeze to death

 

[Diver43]

Honestly? For a reptile: in a sack and in the freezer. They just go to sleep and never wake up. That's what the biologist said anyways.