What shot # would be best for a 12 foot burmeese python?

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What 12 gauge shot would be best to use to kill a 12 foot burmeese python?


This is hypothetical of course.

I was watching a show on tv today about burmeese pythons in Florida and how they are destroying the natural wild life. I was wondering if you were out hunting with your shotgun and ran across one, what shot would be best to take it out.
 
4 Buck to OO Buck, I think penetration may be an issue. Interrupting the CNS would be my goal and smaller shot would be a bit iffy, IMHO.
 
44 mag is the only caliber i would even get close to the thing with.
but if you must have a 12 gauge round, make it a slug to the head.
JMHO
 
I would think any size for close range,just a couple yrds away it wouldn't matter what size you used,the charge wouldn't have time to expand enough to make a difference.Slugs to size 9,at a couple yards kills just about any thing.
 
Snakes are verly long and also very thin. Those saying buck shot and slugs are forgetting that that is made for penetration. There is no need to penetrate more than 2 or 3 inches. Therefore number 4 or 6 shot would work just fine for shooting a snake because you have more shot getting disperced (count wise) and you have a better chance of hitting it.
 
I'd say #6 in a magnum load. ought to shred 'em nicely close up, and still reach out pretty good.

Drummer101, that only works reliably with pit vipers and a warm gun … when they’re really close. :)
 
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Whatever you happen to have in the chamber at the time. I wouldn't be wasting a whole lot of time changing loads when a 12 foot snake is smiling at me.

DC
 
got to lookin’ stuff up …

The record for a female Burmese python in Florida is 16.6 feet.
"Since 1995, >1,200 Burmese Pythons have been removed from Florida. Record clutch size is 85 eggs from a single female in Florida. They are dietary generalists, eating primarily birds, mammals, and occasionally alligators." … from http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology/fl-guide/Pythonmolurus.htm

dang… those things need killin’ before they eat up the good eatin’s in the swamp.
… and they have thermoreceptive labial pits … heat sensing lip holes … so maybe the "lining up with the barrel thing" would work on them too ?… still have to be nearly within striking distance, and with snake POed, I’d imagine.

Anybody know what they taste like ? :D
 
Hmmm..."snake striking bullet" myth is back. That really sux because I've really mastered the art of sharpening hoes and shovels.;) A snake's reflexes are usually a bit slower than ours. Can you catch a bullet? Strike that, don't really want anyone to try.
 
not snake striking bullet myth … snake lining up on barrel 2-3 feet away from him (not recommended with a pistol :eek:)
 
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