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Posted on 7/17/25 at 5:54 pm to Auburn1968
I keep seeing that idea floated around. Why aren’t the doing it?! Sounds like a massive W to me.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 5:55 pm to Auburn1968
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We nearly wiped out the buffalo in this country because a bunch of guys made money off of buffalo hides. Thousands of years before that, mankind eradicated the woolly mammoth with spears. Spears! Give me five thousand Ted Nugent fans and all the weapons they can carry and the waters of the everglades will run red with Burmese snake blood. You see, I don’t think we need a vast new government bureaucracy to kill snakes. Heck I think if we created a vast new bureaucracy to kill snakes we would very quickly end up subsidizing people to raise snakes to kill them. But, are you telling me that during a time when unemployment is outrageously high, the government can’t put a bounty on snakes and get results? 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 - Jonah Goldberg, writing at NR back in 2012
Posted on 7/17/25 at 6:38 pm to DesScorp
They'll never be gone...Never..
See , Everglades National Park is Ground Zero...And most of ENP is either flooded Sawgrass prairies that stretch for miles..with Zero access or locked off access.NPS don,t like guns either.
You don't really think them Park Bunny huggers are gonna let Cowboys run all over their Sacred Ground with guns now do you...
I worked for Big Cypress Preserve right next door for about 10 years. Drove it every morning twice a day and all day while at work. Use to see swamp rabbits , maybe 20 every morning. Zero now.
Started finding smaller Pythons ..6 to 10 footers on my home road every month or so. We just ran them over and kept rolling.
See , Everglades National Park is Ground Zero...And most of ENP is either flooded Sawgrass prairies that stretch for miles..with Zero access or locked off access.NPS don,t like guns either.
You don't really think them Park Bunny huggers are gonna let Cowboys run all over their Sacred Ground with guns now do you...
I worked for Big Cypress Preserve right next door for about 10 years. Drove it every morning twice a day and all day while at work. Use to see swamp rabbits , maybe 20 every morning. Zero now.
Started finding smaller Pythons ..6 to 10 footers on my home road every month or so. We just ran them over and kept rolling.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 7:34 pm to Auburn1968
Plenty of cowboy boots to be made.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 7:48 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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I keep seeing that idea floated around. Why aren’t the doing it?! Sounds like a massive W to me.
It's the only thing that makes sense. Perhaps the conservation services are saturated with PETA types who think breeding thousands of rats and rabbits as bait is too cruel.
It is the only thing that will actually work.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:03 pm to Turner River Terror
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Use to see swamp rabbits , maybe 20 every morning. Zero now.
Yeah it’s crazy how many mammals I’ll see in La. when roadcruising for snakes, whereas in Everglades National Park/Big Cypress I see almost none. I’ve spent about 8 weeks there since March of last year.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 5:41 am to CR4090
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Why doesn't he just shoot them?
Unless the law changed, licensed python hunters have to capture them by hand and humanely dispatch them. They aren’t allowed to shoot them.
I believe laws/policies prevent regular hunters from traipsing out into the Glades with a 12 gauge shooting pythons. Seems shortsighted, they should declare open season on them.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 10:15 am to riverdiver
Posted on 7/18/25 at 10:38 am to Auburn1968
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Pythons in Florida
Posted on 7/18/25 at 10:51 am to riverdiver
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Unless the law changed, licensed python hunters have to capture them by hand and humanely dispatch them. They aren’t allowed to shoot them.
Well.....
Not hard to figure out why they're taking over. This is a great example of why those with close ties with the "animal rights" movement should never have a seat at the table when it comes to wildlife management. They'll always demand approaching policies with a "one arm tied behind your back" mentality. Always.
EDIT: So apparently firearms ARE permitted....They encourage head shots for as quick a kill as possible. Sounds like a 12ga with #4 or #6 shot at reasonable range would be the right medicine, to me.
Humane killing methods for nonnative species
This post was edited on 7/18/25 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 7/18/25 at 11:13 am to oleheat
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Not hard to figure out why they're taking over. This is a great example of why those with close ties with the "animal rights" movement should never have a seat at the table when it comes to wildlife management. They'll always demand approaching policies with a "one arm tied behind your back" mentality. Always.
And probably the reason that a massive live bait effort doesn't get traction when it is the only thing that would work to eradicate pythons that are destroying all of the native wild life.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 11:38 am to SeeeeK
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lion fish
They are a pain in the arse to catch but they are good eating. Tastes like crab meat.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 11:55 am to Keith13
Damn I just saw where his dog Otto was run over by a truck during one of their hunts earlier in July. That's so damn sad
Posted on 7/18/25 at 12:12 pm to SeeeeK
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I watched a wild life dealio on it. One man is to blame, he had about 20-30 of them in plastic containers and when the hurricane hit. It took them and dropped them in the Everglades,
Posted on 7/18/25 at 12:23 pm to SeeeeK
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I watched a wild life dealio on it. One man is to blame, he had about 20-30 of them in plastic containers and when the hurricane hit. It took them and dropped them in the Everglades
It is the same basic story with all the invasive shite currently destroying Florida.
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Aruba used to pay people to kill lion fish while snorkeling and scuba diving. They were nearing destruction of the fish life in Aruba waters. They have few predators and they prey on a lot.
The biggest issue is that lionfish don't have an off switch when it comes to being full or satiated. They will keep eating until they clean an area out. They're known to eat themselves into early death, dying of fatty liver and other issues.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 2:42 pm to Chucktown_Badger
How much money do they get for killing them? Could be cool to go down there for vacation and then hunt some anacondas and get paid for they bodies.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 2:53 pm to Auburn1968
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And probably the reason that a massive live bait effort doesn't get traction when it is the only thing that would work to eradicate pythons that are destroying all of the native wild life.
So it sounds like they do allow firearms (I posted a link to my edited post).
Sure glad to hear that! Not doing do would be insane, for sure....
Posted on 7/18/25 at 3:29 pm to riverdiver
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I believe laws/policies prevent regular hunters from traipsing out into the Glades with a 12 gauge shooting pythons. Seems shortsighted, they should declare open season on them.
one of those youtube python hunters was on rogan a few years ago and he basically said it was politics that was preventing them from making a huge dent in the population.
Cant remember the exact reason, but it was some environmental crap meant to protect the everglades.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 3:42 pm to BogeyTX
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I don’t follow a bunch of people on social media that I don’t personally know but “Fishin Garrett” on Instagram is a great follow.
He walks barefoot through the Everglades and hunts them all while saying hello to all the other species in the swamp. His videos are pretty fun.
I follow him. I hope he finally finds that elusive 20 footer one day.
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