On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:01:18 -0400, gfretwell wrote:


The pythons are so bad in the everglades they have opened up hunting for
them. No closed season, no bag limit and no restriction on how you take
them.
My son in law works for water management and the guy they have taking
them uses a shotgun. The trick is being far enough away that when you
hit one in the part that is exposed, he can't get you when he strikes
back. It is certainly not a "single shot" shotgun sort of thing. You
need a quick follow up shot to hit him in the head on that strike. It is
sort of a "station 8 low house" sort of thing but a "double". There are
teams that capture them alive but they are not your average people and
they do get bit a lot. The bites are very likely to get infected.
I am going to get out there with the water management folks the first
time I get a chance but I will be a shotgun guy, not a "grab'm" guy. (at
least not at first)
I might want to go out with a capture team once I get a feel for it. I
don't mind wrestling with critters.

Looks like you have a new python, besides the Burmese one.

http://www.miamiherald.com/573/story/1243680.html

I'm still amazed those things will tangle with an alligator. I was doing
a little reading on the pythons. It seems they could really do some
damage on the Everglades ecosystem. That's a shame. There isn't any
place like the Everglades.