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Florida Wants to Hire 50 Python Hunters…Are You Game?
by TTAG Contributor |

Sep 22, 2019 |


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The Sunshine State is looking for a few good python hunters.
By Craig Raleigh

The South Florida Water Management District needs more python hunters, and they need them now. Program director Mike Kirkland told the Fort Myers News-Press, “We’re going to be asking for 50 paid hunters. It’s been a tremendous success, the most successful program in the history of the issue by a wide margin in terms of snakes caught and cost effectiveness.”

Payment may be one of the perks of hunting the invasive pythons in Florida, but elimination of this threat from the Sunshine State is what citizens are really looking for.

In order to be considered for a paid python hunter job, you must be at least 18-years-of-age, have all of your identification in order and available to authorities, and have no recent criminal history. Maybe the best part for prospective hunters: firearms can be used to take the invasive creatures.

What Gun for Python?
Since the program was started in 2017 to curb the area’s non-native Burmese python population, hunters have removed nearly 3,000 Burmese pythons, but their numbers still continue to grow.

Authorized citizens, known as “python removal agents,” will be paid by the hour to track and humanely dispatch pythons and other invasive species such as the cane toad or the Tegu lizard. And if you can find them, the program pays extra for snakes measuring more than four feet in length or snakes that are killed while guarding a nest full of eggs.

Beyond that, the SFWMD is also petitioning the state to add $750,000 to the program’s funding making it an ongoing program for the future as well. While we should be talking about the state of deer or turkey hunting in Florida at this time of year, the reality is that invasive species in the state–on land and in the sea–need to be dealt with sooner rather than later.
 
Absolutely! These snakes have no natural predators here. And they are multiplying like crazy. They have all but wiped out many of the wildlife in the Everglades and swamps. :ghostly:


Well there you go, a fun part time job. Let us know how many you get!
 
Well there you go, a fun part time job. Let us know how many you get!


Hubby is ready for a normal snake already put two in the woods this week, but these pythons anacondas aren't ' normal '. He likes his little snake grabber it holds onto them. But not sure he could even lift or want to get close to one of them.They would break his grabber.

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Let me see if I understand this job...
You get to wade through swamps looking for well camouflaged semi-aquatic snakes that when they are just a few years old are big enough to kill you. You get to use a gun to dispatch your prey once they have grabbed onto your leg or arm and are wrapping their coiled mass around you while squeezing the life out of you.
You will be with "hunters" that have no experience in hunting these snakes and range in age from 18 up.
Sure! What could possibly go wrong?
 
I saw this article last week... and thought it's getting onto fall, temps are dropping... If I were a young man and needed work I'd grab a tent and head for the glades... There is good money to be made if you work your butt off.
 
Let me see if I understand this job...
You get to wade through swamps looking for well camouflaged semi-aquatic snakes that when they are just a few years old are big enough to kill you. You get to use a gun to dispatch your prey once they have grabbed onto your leg or arm and are wrapping their coiled mass around you while squeezing the life out of you.
You will be with "hunters" that have no experience in hunting these snakes and range in age from 18 up.
Sure! What could possibly go wrong?


:LOL::D
 
That was pretty much my reaction too, Meerkat. :)
 
So silly.
You don't have to spend money to have them "removed", just make it 'not-illegal' to hunt them. They will go away all by themselves:).
All you have to do is whisper to a Cajun: "Psst! You know you can make a good gumbo wit dem?"

Before: alligators everywhere.
After: alligators on endangered species list.

Any questions?:D
Hubby just said " I'd just shoot them ".
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There are a few people who would probably love to be professional snake hunters. Give them a bonus for snakes by the pound.
You ain't even got to do that. Let 'em tote 'em off and cook 'em.
Anything with enough muscle power to constrict a small animal to death is chocked full of some really good meat.
We'll be happy to just have the 'pounds' without the bonus:brewing:
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You ain't even got to do that. Let 'em tote 'em off and cook 'em.
Anything with enough muscle power to constrict a small animal to death is chocked full of some really good meat.
We'll be happy to just have the 'pounds' without the bonus:brewing:View attachment 25266
I expect some restaurants would pay a good price for a steady supply.
 
Alligator season ends in just a few days (4oct in LA) … and what do you know! Another cash job is waiting. There are 100’s of young guys in the deep south who know their way around the swamps, guys who can catch a 10ft/700lb gator. A 10ft/100lb snake wouldn’t raise a sweat, and you can put it in gumbo! ;)

Folks who don’t know the swamp are smart enough to stay out… at least in the south. I’m sure there are fools up north who know nothing about swamps, gators or snakes that are stupid enough to try… who needs them anyway! Besides, FL is well known for keeping idiots from hurting themselves.

I wouldn't be sleeping in a tent there, unless there were a couple of layers with good zippers. I have slept in tents many times when I was younger, but snakes were always a concern for me.

The tent is just to keep the mosquitoes out… and it goes in the back of the truck! :D I've camped in the swamp more than a few times... We used to hunt raccoons in the swamp at night when I was kid.
 
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Alligator season ends in just a few days (4oct in LA) … and what do you know! Another cash job is waiting. There are 100’s of young guys in the deep south who know their way around the swamps, guys who can catch a 10ft/700lb gator. A 10ft/100lb snake wouldn’t raise a sweat, and you can put it in gumbo! ;)
Well, then there's how to 'throw away' the anaconda snakeskin:rolleyes:.
Oh wait! that stuff is worth WAAAYY more than 'gator skin:
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Who's ready to go hunting now?:eek:

Oh, I forgot! They got Pythons to get rid of too. Wonder what their skin's worth?
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I promise you, those snakes would vanish REAL FAST!!!
 
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Snakes are like frog legs...they taste like chicken until you get to your 14th fork full. Then the underlying swampy "nose" and especially the "finish" starts to emerge.

However, the Cajuns are especially adept at using a number of ingredients to make even nutria taste like foie gras and truffles. I'll be at Sup' 42's house to see what he can with wit' 'em. :huggs:
 
...However, the Cajuns are especially adept at using a number of ingredients to make even nutria taste like foie gras and truffles. I'll be at Sup' 42's house to see what he can with wit' 'em. :huggs:
I'm still a 'newbie' and would relegate that to one of the pro's around here.
It's all about the correct seasonings and what you put 'wit' it.
Haven't eaten nutria yet (that I know of) but if they stirred one into the pot, you'd never know it.
For those playing along that don't know what a nutria is:
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California is finding out that if you don't eat them first, they will soon outnumber you:eek:.

Anaconda looking pretty good yet?:D
 
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I'm still a 'newbie' and would relegate that to one of the pro's around here.
Next-door neighbor back from fishing today:
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Jes turn us loose:)....
 
It's all about the correct seasonings and what you put 'wit' it.
For those playing along that don't know what a nutria is:
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California is finding out that if you don't eat them first, they will soon outnumber you:eek:. Anaconda looking pretty good yet?:D

Just add to a medium roux with andouille sausage, onions, tomatoes, seafood or chicken stock, green pepper, celery, thyme, bay leaf, salt, black pepper, a soupçon of garlic, and a little cayenne. Add a pound of shrimp for four minutes. Throw the nutria into the garbage, and then serve the above ingredients over white rice with a loaf of French bread.
 
Just add to a medium roux with andouille sausage, onions, tomatoes, seafood or chicken stock, green pepper, celery, thyme, bay leaf, salt, black pepper, a soupçon of garlic, and a little cayenne. Add a pound of shrimp for four minutes. Throw the nutria into the garbage, and then serve the above ingredients over white rice with a loaf of French bread.
It sounds great, except for the nutria. Gross! I have some andouille sausage in my fridge right now. Thanks for this recipe! It is better over white rice, as opposed to dirty rice? I would probably eat it sans rice.
 
It sounds great, except for the nutria. Gross! I have some andouille sausage in my fridge right now. Thanks for this recipe! It is better over white rice, as opposed to dirty rice? I would probably eat it sans rice.

Ah, but the secret is how much of each, the order of placing the ingredients, and how long does one cook each addition! Heck, even making a proper roux can tie newbies into knots - I know from experience. Dirty rice is a dish all to itself. Sent me a personal note and I'll send you a gumbo recipe from Richard Collin, The New Orleans Underground Gourmet, from 1970. Forget all that Emeril Lagasse and Paul Prudhomme stuff. Collins interviewed and got 100-year-old recipes from the New Orleans greats from the mid-20th century. For instance, a proper red beans and rice can take up to four hours to do right.
 
Heck, even making a proper roux can tie newbies into knots - I know from experience.

I have a friend who makes his in the oven instead of stove top. He swears it makes it easier to get it to the right temp/color without burning it.
 
I have a friend who makes his in the oven instead of stove top. He swears it makes it easier to get it to the right temp/color without burning it.
With a good roux, that drum and the nutria above will taste fantastic....
Or if they end up in a good gumbo chocked full of crab, shrimp, and sausage.
Even if they were to toss in some anaconda, or python, or gator;
It's all good:D.
...if you have a good cook:).
 
Python and nutria could be the protein to eat in a SHTF situation. The thought of it just makes my stomach roll.
There you go getting sidetracked by appearance and image:rolleyes:. (like with hogs)
Skin and clean them and you are looking at a lot of muscle (meat).
A nutria probably looks like a rabbit that has been working out in a weight-room, and a python probably looks like 'gator tail' which sells for $7-$9 per pound here.
Add that to a skilled cook that knows how to combine other meats, ingredients and spices, trust me, you'd love it.
 
There you go getting sidetracked by appearance and image:rolleyes:. (like with hogs)
Skin and clean them and you are looking at a lot of muscle (meat).
A nutria probably looks like a rabbit that has been working out in a weight-room, and a python probably looks like 'gator tail' which sells for $7-$9 per pound here.
Add that to a skilled cook that knows how to combine other meats, ingredients and spices, trust me, you'd love it.
I just can't get past what it is, what it looks like. Really, here I am, almost vomiting.

When I was a kid, we would eat Rocky Mountain oysters during certain times when Grandpa and uncles worked cattle. Since I didn't really know what I was eating, I could eat them.
 
I just can't get past what it is, what it looks like. Really, here I am, almost vomiting.
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Do you like honey?
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It's delicious!

Honey is the vomit of insects.
(you used the "V" word first:rolleyes:)
Of course, you'll want the 100% pure 'unprocessed' stuff:D:
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