Python Cowboy Recounts Being Bitten by a 17 Foot Python

The Joe Rogan Experience I think I've been Florida man a few times add that to my belt how did you get involved in Honey pythons first of all can you bring that python head up yeah you see that python head I did see so so this really didn't look this is actually the one that bit me that I almost bled out in the middle of the Everglades caught by myself in the middle of the Everglades and that bit you yeah yeah this snake 17 foot seven inches 135 pounds and that's no eggs inside of it no meal inside of it that Solid Snake muscle and at the time that's about what I weighed so it was a fair Everglades Battle Royale oh my God can I see it yeah absolutely now tell me the scenario what happened so um I was I found this thing yeah and look at all those teeth look at that it's insane yeah and and that head actually has shrunk substantially from the freeze drying process all Critters freeze-dried that for me and uh you know it takes all the moisture out of it really really shrinks down um so I was out hunting the Everglades um I was actually out in my 14-foot John Boat by myself and I was checking uh spoil Islands out there these islands were dug maybe a hundred years ago or more um when they dug the canal they were made 100 years ago when they were digging the canal and they've been up there you know gaining vegetation getting real nasty and a lot of these Critters come up on them to breed to feed and to nest and I was out there looking for you know a python like I normally do and I came across her I knew immediately when I saw her that she was very large possibly the largest python I've captured and I could only see the um the back half of her maybe like the back third over but I could tell she was a monster my heart is pounding uh I'd be lying to you if I said it wasn't but you know my main fear in a situation like that is not that this snake's gonna kill me I'm confident in how to handle these animals uh confident in in my ability but I'm worried this thing's going to get the best of me overpower me and possibly I lose it um it gets away into the swamp to eat more of our native Wildlife coming across an animal like this even with the situation we're in in the Everglades is still a once in a lifetime you know opportunity it really is I've caught a number of them but I spend a lot of time out there so I'm getting ready to capture this this snake building myself up to it uh the safest way to go about it is to find the head grab the head with both my hands and keep her from coiling on me wrapping around me uh I can't find her head her head's buried in vegetation buried in in the maiden cane I just can't see it and she's working her way slowly off the island so I know I gotta quickly do something I'm afraid if I if I get closer to her head I'm on a spooker and she's going to try to start moving away I grab onto her tail and this is kind of a bad situation to be in especially with all the thick vegetation these snakes can easily overpower you and will actually drag you out in the swamp there's just no stop in it it intertwines in all the weeds and just drags you so I know grabbing this thing my goal is to piss it off and get it to start striking at me where I can see that head and grab a hold of that head otherwise this thing's this thing's gone so I get a hold of it and it starts dragging me it's pulling me off the island so is it wrapped around you are you no no no no it's it's stretched out and you're hanging on I'm hanging on it yeah it's it's the this thing's eating alligators eating deer it's the biggest thing out here it's not worried about nothing it's not scared of me you know what I mean it's it's kind of seeing what I'm doing so I got a hold of it and it's starting to are you wearing gloves no how are you able to really grab it if I had gloves on I wouldn't be able to grab it I need my bare hands to be able to work and and feel everything have the grip um gloves gloves will just get in the way even something with like a texture to it I don't want any of that okay I don't want any of that they just get in the way um so I got the snake dragging me out into the swamp uh you know losing this battle I'm able to dig my heels down into limestone that I'm standing on the Limestone Island and I'm able to to stop her I'm not gaining honor but I got her stopped and we're kind of in this Everglades tug of war right now and she starts to get pissed off she starts hissing she starts turning around on me and this this is what I want but I gotta not get bit you know what I mean um [ __ ] a snake this size to my advantage they're they're slower than a smaller snake they have a lot of body mass they're going to tire out quickly and uh her strikes aren't going to be lightning fast so she's striking at me I'm dodging her strikes oh my God everything's going good everything Floyd Mayweather out there and yeah doing a little ducking weave everything's going good um normally when a strike when a snake strikes it's going to strike out recoil back get ready strike again recoil back it's how they strike that's how they get that power they kind of like recoil their body so it's it's struck I dodged it it recoils back like a third of the way and hits me with this little sneak attack strike that I wasn't expecting this snake is anywhere from 10 to 20 years or more old so it's been around the block it's a smart snake and um you know snakes don't normally do that I think she she kind of knew what she was doing she struck she got me on my arm got an artery got some veins coming off my artery and that that doesn't do it justice at all um their their teeth are all their punctures so uh you know they're like needles so they punctured down deep you can see you can see that top one gets right into my main vein and the real bad one was on the top of my arm that you can't see where it's on this I think it's an artery I'm here wrong coming coming on the top of my arm and I got very lucky normally when they bite they they latch on and she would have latched on she would have wrapped around me and you know I would have been in a very very bad situation being out there by myself thank the good Lord I I had him on my side that day she struck she bit I was able to grab her head and I don't know if it's how I pushed it forward and pulled her off or what because all their teeth are recurved like like fish hooks almost kind of got her right off of me grabbed her head pushed her off of me she didn't latch on she was trying to bite again maybe maybe that she didn't think she had a good bite and she was trying to re-grip but I got lucky now I have her head I'm bit I'm spraying blood all over the Everglades but I I have her head so now now my main thing is controlling her without exerting myself too much because every time I'm doing anything I mean it's it's I've never seen blood come out of my body like this you know really um my heart's pounding adrenaline's going and uh my main thing is just to stay calm I don't think I'm necessarily gonna bleed to death I mean the amount of blood I'm seeing it crossed my mind but but I really don't think I'm gonna bleed to death I'm worried about blacking out from blood loss the heat exerting myself what's this snake gonna do if I black out it's gonna wrap around me it's gonna kill me 100 right um you know I don't think it'd necessarily be able to swallow me and eat me maybe uh but it could definitely kill me so I'm really trying to control my heart where heart rate trying not to exert myself um the snakes biting at me you know going nuts uh you can see the video on my YouTube of where I'm just covered in blood and um I have a snake bag with me to put whatever snake I was planning on catching in the bag this snake is way too big for that bag so I actually am able to use that bag to tie off my arm and kind of do a little red nose you're holding it down yeah why I got the the head in one hand and I'm tourniquet in my arm I think it was like this tourniating my arm with with the other and got my arm sent shut you know kind of got the bleeding under control and I was able to kind of collect myself this snake is pretty much worn out at this point she's cold-blooded so they gas out after about a 10 minute fight she's like a limp noodle so I'm kind of just laying on her catching my breath now I got to get her back to my boat where I can put a bullet in her head because I don't just walk out around out there with a gun all these snakes I catch alive put them in a bag and it's just easier to not have a gun on me Jesus and um why is it would it be so hard to have a gun right there well I'm I'm literally crawling through cane and Sawgrass and it gets snagged you can lose a gun very easily and it's just it's in the way and 99.9 percent of the time I'm not going to need one especially me I'm the kind of guy where if I come across a 30-foot snake you know which pythons don't get that big let's say I come across a 30-foot snake some crazy I ain't shooting it I'm I want to catch it you know that's dude that's what I'm all about oh my God this is this is you after this thing bit you yeah this is right where I'm getting ready to try to tourniquet my arm holy [ __ ] man and you're filming this yeah I I got my shoulder cam on and then I put a GoPro on the ground this is wild and you know normally I I don't always get great I mean I get pretty good footage with myself on my shoulder cam but like I I was set up this day and I knew I had my GoPro running when this thing bit me are you cinching up at the top of your army above the wound above the wound above the wound yeah above the wound and uh you know to be honest with you the the first thought that went through my mind when that thing bit me and I have all these cameras going and I see all this blood is this video is definitely going viral just don't die it would really go viral if you died yeah I'm sure it would have yeah found GoPro footage so now you have to carry this thing out while you're holding onto its head yeah well she really is like a limp noodle while it's still alive she really is like a wimp noodle yeah she's gassed out she is done that's insane she is done wow man that's that's a man [ __ ] right there son not a lot of human beings are capable of doing that and just keeping it together it's creeping me out just watching you hold on to that thing as you're walking through the the woods with it what I think it is more than anything and you know I hate to kind of take away from myself but it's it's what we're taught as kids you know we're taught to be fearful of snakes that they're this evil dangerous thing and I can't tell you I I think that's why I've been so successful on social media is these people they just freak out watching these snakes you know they can't believe it and it's they're not really that crazy they're really not I think you're just used to them I think they're really [ __ ] crazy that's the reason why they're only in one state like this look at the size of that thing man that thing's enormous and they eat alligators oh yeah I think bro I think they would eat you I've rescued three alligators from pythons wow that's actually how I started my social media is I um made the news went kind of viral for rescuing an alligator from a python I had a guy out on a guided hunt with me he uh recorded it videotaped it and it you know made the news and uh a local clothing brand flow grown in Florida made my Instagram made my social media and was like dude you gotta start using it you know we'll send you clothes and that's really how it all got started that's crazy that's how it got started that's amazing look at these things and I actually this was the smallest of the three I've rescued um it was the third one that we finally got on video because I never I never used to really record anything imagine how [ __ ] confused alligators must be like I thought we were at the top I we were at the top forever yeah oh yeah what happened yeah what the [ __ ] is going on 2023 times are changing

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Length: 13min 53sec (833 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 11 2023