Winner of Florida python hunting contest nabs 96 snakes
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Florida python hunter shatters all-time competition record with 96-snake Everglades haul
Florida Python Challenge 2026 winner Tom Rahill captured 96 invasive Burmese pythons in 10 days, all from Everglades National Park, shattering the all-time competition record by 60 percent. The 69-year-old founder of Swamp Apes,
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"At the end, you rely on the luck factor."
Photographer and writer Bob Bramblet is the past president of the Florida Outdoors Writers Association, and he wrote a book called 'Where the Python Sleeps'.
Burmese pythons in Florida are devouring animals as small as rabbits and as big as deer and alligators. How they do it is fascinating and unsettling.
Participants in the 2026 Florida Python Challenge removed 280 invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida during the 10-day event, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.
The 2026 Florida Python Challenge starts July 10. It is another opportunity for hunters to put a dent in the invasive Burmese python population and win some money while doing it. Whether you are a novice and have just started to hunt pythons, or you are ...