Snakes

Hunter bitten badly but still nabs 17-foot python

By David Strege |

June 11, 2020 11:12 am

Mike Kimmel, a state-contracted python hunter in Florida known as the Python Cowboy, met his match Monday when he caught a 17-foot python that bit him badly in the left arm as he was wrestling him from heavy vegetation.

“She got me good, son,” Kimmel said in a bloody Facebook video. “I got her, though.”
Kimmel was hunting solo on an Everglades island in the Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area when he spotted the python three hours into his hunt, according to Local 10 News.
“I could barely contain my excitement,” Kimmel wrote on
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