Your Gartering "Technique"

[ssssnakeluvr]

I move quickly and quietly into the breeders house, cleverly lure him with cash, then at the appropriate moment I whip out the correct money, thrust it towards the breeder and seize the snake of my choice.

that's one method I use (yes, you are quite the comedian tonite! LOL) the other method is just diving at the ground grabbing what ever part of the snake i can get ahold of....sometimes at the cost of some skin.....

[reptileparadise]

I move quickly and quietly into the breeders house, cleverly lure him with cash, then at the appropriate moment I whip out the correct money, thrust it towards the breeder and seize the snake of my choice.

Thats an real interesting technique!
But whats the approprate moment...If you move to soon, the breeder will flee! If you wait to long, the breeder will have lost interest and disappeard into the bushes...

[KITKAT]

I move quickly and quietly into the breeders house, cleverly lure him with cash, then at the appropriate moment I whip out the correct money, thrust it towards the breeder and seize the snake of my choice.

HA HA! That is me too, most of the time, now that state natives require a license.

But when herping, if it is a garter and I know it is a garter, I just grab. I try to grab near the head when I can, but if I can't, I don't worry about it!

[Zephyr]

Well, yesterday I had an interesting experience. At the garden plots, there's a steep hill that leads down to one of the campus roads. Of course, this is where the garters like to hang. So, I spotted a fat female and dived head-first downhill after it. I swear it looked liked the snake was slithering on air down hill. XD
So, after this traumatic experience, I had burs in places where burs shouldn't be. XD

[Zephyr]

I've yet to see any one go all "Steve Irwin" on a snake yet. For some odd reason, I can see James doing that to his first garter...

[anji1971]

From the sound of some of Loren's stories about snake catching, I'd say he's probably done the Steve Irwin thing!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

By steve irwin.. do you mean diving into a lake at a moment's notice to grab one?

If so.... I've done that twice!

I usually am very aggressive when it coms to caching snakes. Luckily I have great eyesight and I'm able to identify any snake even in motion instantly... then before I even know what is happening I am on the ground with my hand on any part of the snake I can be on... I have cut/scratched myself up pretty good for snakes. I chipped my kneecap in the effort to catch the hypo female!

[Loren]

By steve irwin.. do you mean diving into a lake at a moment's notice to grab one?

Yeah, I've done that sort of thing a few times.

Scrapes, cuts, bruises- no big deal. Just keep me away from poison oak.
I'll herp around it, but not in it.

[ssssnakeluvr]

I've been doing the Steve Irwin style since I was a kid!!!! always diving after critters. I was out with my brother and caught a leopard frog jumping across a streem. I dove over the small stream and caught him in mid-air. I hit the ground and rolled. I was a lot younger then..not so sure it would end up as nice and neat as that time.....

[adamanteus]

I've yet to see any one go all "Steve Irwin" on a snake yet. For some odd reason, I can see James doing that to his first garter...

Maybe....
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/gart...t=grass+snakes