[Bruce M]

Because apparently not everyone is convinced that door to door gun confiscation is starting Tuesday.

http://www.myfwc.com/news/news-relea...ython-kickoff/


People from 30 different states have registered.


http://www.pythonchallenge.org/

[ray9898]

Not a great success. Over 1000 hunters signed up for the contest which has prizes for performance. Through the first 5 days they only managed to turn in 21 snakes. Several big name "swamp hunters" from the SE have been shut out.

Python Contest results

It only re-enforces what many have said. This is not as simple as blumbering into the swamp and just finding snakes in the open for the taking. I watched a program on the Animal Planet a few months back that followed researchers tracking the movement of chipped snakes. Even using the RF equipment it took hours to find their hiding spots.

I think FL is past the point of no return.

[Hicksville Kid]

Laughable total caught. A python can lay 60 to 100 eggs. If you found one nest in the entire Everglads you would beat the total caught.

This, truly, is shoveling excrement against the tide.

[elsolo]

Florida has mismanaged the python problem since day one.

Let them get fully established, then try and use it for marketing to bring more tourists to the swamps.

[The Fed]

Bill Nelson went hunting. What a joke.

[Scared_of_zombies]

It could also be seen that MAYBE there aren't millions of them in the Everglades, as has been previously suggested.

[ray9898]

Contest half way over....37 snakes killed.


I say FL is doomed and eradication at this point is impossible.

[Huaco Kid]

800 people registered and I suspect that the large majority of those snakes were caught by two or three crusty ol' farts that live in the swamp.

[G36's Rule]

Odd that they would conduct this "hunt" during the coolest part of the year when the snakes would be least active...