Uneducated fearmongering...

Badace52 said:

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Rat shot in a .22 works as good as anything, but to be honest all you need is a stick as long as whatever snake you are trying to kill. They can only strike 2/3 of their body length and are very easy to kill with a stick. Hit them once anywhere to slow them down and then a second time in the head, and voila dead snake.

If you are planning on going on a snake massacre I suggest at least educating yourself here on the snake threads first. Snakes are one of the most helpless creatures out there. The fastest snakes in the world top out at a little over 5 mph and humans jog at about 10 mph. Even the venomous ones are only dangerous in a couple foot radius right around their head and have no interest in harming you. To me, it is as sad as shooting turtles on land.

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The internet told me the black Mamba goes up to 12 mph.

Well it has been a while since I've updated my snake land speed record data and 12 mph with perfect ground traction conditions does sound plausible. However, the point of that comment is that a snake can't outrun the average human and even 12 mph isn't going to change that fact if you happen to be in Africa tangling with a black mamba for some reason.

DayAg! said:

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Like another poster mentioned. I kill snakes with whatever is convenient and close to get to that will work. I dont care what they are, if they come on my property and I see em, I kill em. No exceptions. Thats the rules. Snakes is snakes, they have no good intentions toward you, your family,your pets or livestock. Fck em. They die.

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You left off they are the devil too or so my old bus driver said.

Badace52 said:

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If you are planning on going on a snake massacre I suggest at least educating yourself here on the snake threads first. Snakes are one of the most helpless creatures out there. The fastest snakes in the world top out at a little over 5 mph and humans jog at about 10 mph. Even the venomous ones are only dangerous in a couple foot radius right around their head and have no interest in harming you. To me, it is as sad as shooting turtles on land.

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I believe elite marathon runners jog at about 10 mph, the rest of us not so much.

Elite marathoners average around 5 minute miles which is around 12 mph... the average marathoner runs around a ten minute mile.

Averaging a 6 minute mile (aka 10 mph) would be a very good marathon, but not elite.

And all of this has nothing to do with the fact that 10 mph is still a jogging pace and nowhere near a sprint for the average human.

Count me as being in the Kill them with fire camp.

But if you don't have a flamethrower, any shotgun with birdshot. I have killed plenty with #8 while dove hunting.

OP should just double down and hire an elite marathoner that carries a stick in one hand and a mossberg in the other.