Anaconda attack, Would your folder save you?

If all I had was a folder and I could get to it, I'd give it a try. I'm sure as hell not gonna go down without putting up some kind of a fight. That being said, I'd much rather have a large fixed blade to any folder in that situation.

This is, of course, assuming that you can actually get to the knife before the snake wraps you up.
 
stickbobby said:
Two reasons, the snake's attack is more complex than just squeezing, it actualy directs pressure to the heart, it targets the heart, so you die fast. Also how would you deploy the folder and would you get the leverage and postioning to cut through the snake quick enough before it stopped your heart? On a related subject is a folder really an appropriate self defense tool, could you get it out while someone was on top of you, pounding on you and wrapping up your arms?
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I don't know about that. I have seen people on the discovery channel out catching anacondas, and I remember Merlin Olson wreslting one on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingom when I was a kid. I don't think a snake that big would wrap you up so fast that you wouldn't have enough time to get out a knife, and I also think that if I could get a knife out, that snake would be dead. That world record might have been 44 inches in girth, but not by its head. You gotta figure that is about the same size as a persons neck, and it doesn't take much of a knife to get through a persons neck.

Now would I be able to do it under duress? Who knows, but I'd like to think so.
 
Take into consideration that the snake will bite you. Have you ever seen a Python or anaconda's teeth? So factor in a painful bite that you cannot free yourself from, on some part of your anatomy.
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I'd be EDCing a kukri or my Tai Goo bush Bowie in the jungle, so yeah :)
A folder? I don't even think a 7" Maxx folder is going to help much against an angry Burmese python or anaconda.
If you're lucky and it gets your arm, you might be able to get a few stabs in before it constricts the air out of you. Your average person has a hard enough time keeping their breath in a wrestling match, much less when a huge snake is wrapped around their ribcage.
 
I actually have a python, but it won't get very large. It's about full sized now at a little under 4'.
Some other info about constrictors when they grab for a meal....... they strike you, and wrap their coils around their head a few times so you can't pull loose, and also to protect their head. They move REAL quick when they strike and wrap and are really strong for their weight. (Solid muscle!)
My python quit eating prekilled rats early last summer, and after a few months I gave her a live one out of desperation, and that broke her off her fast. That's all she's been eating since.
If anyone wants to see how quick they are, shoot me an email and I can send you a video.
I have a pretty good .wmv file (a little over 3.5 mb) of her doing in a jumbo rat.
 
Another thing about constrictors is that they do not squeeze much- they wait for your body to loose volume (breath out) and then fill that new space and do not relinquish their hold. Contrary to many beliefs the squeezing does not kill you- lack of oxygen does.
 
jerrinfla said:
I actually have a python, but it won't get very large. It's about full sized now at a little under 4'.
Some other info about constrictors when they grab for a meal....... they strike you, and wrap their coils around their head a few times so you can't pull loose, and also to protect their head. They move REAL quick when they strike and wrap and are really strong for their weight. (Solid muscle!)
My python quit eating prekilled rats early last summer, and after a few months I gave her a live one out of desperation, and that broke her off her fast. That's all she's been eating since.
If anyone wants to see how quick they are, shoot me an email and I can send you a video.
I have a pretty good .wmv file (a little over 3.5 mb) of her doing in a jumbo rat.
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I used to have a Ball Python and a Red Tailed Boa. It's unreal how strong they are for their weight. And the striking speed never ceased to amaze me. They really are incredible animals.

Frank
 
Gringogunsmith said:
I see another voice of reason beat me by 4 minutes..
BTW Silver.
Pythons do water VERY well.. not like a " ' conda"
Fortunately. I dont THINK we have those here ... YET.. :eek:
Least I aint seen one.. Thank God :o
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The Pythons are capable swimmers. My point was if you had the misfortune to tangle with a Python there's a fair chance you'd get to do so on dry land. A fight with an Anaconda will almost certainly be in the water. Just for the record I wouldn't want to mess with an African Rock Python either.

Frank
 
We have the New Jersey rock pythons and anacondas were I live. During the summer we usually loose 3 or 4 people a week to them. They come into your house at night and kill people in their sleep. Hell I lost two wives that way and never woke up. I’ve been attacked many times and I usually kill them with my ball point pen or sometime just talk them to death.
 
Didn't blacjack used to make an anaconda knife? Maybe it was designed to use in self defense against them or even better you could use it for anaconda sticking.
 
When my brother was little he was looking at a garden snake he had caught and it latched on to his nose and wouldn't let go til my dad lit the snakes head on fire.:eek: It was that or pliers.:o

Personally, if a big snake was on me I'd beat it to death with a grizzly bear.:cool: :D
 
What is interesting to me is that a REALLY large anaconda is actually very poor at negotiating land. They are so big and heavy that look rediculous. In water however, they are a different story...

I am confident that if I met a large anaconda underwater, I would be dead if it wanted me so. I don't care what weapon I am holding, short of the ability to transform into a lightning bolt...However, the same anaconda on land would be outmatched by most agile humans with a sharp blade.
 
I would drag it AND the folder to a SCHOOL where knives are not permitted so the cops would come and rescue me so they could make the arrest. Unless PETA told em to save the snake.
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If I were to attack an anaconda, no I would not need a folder. I'd kill it and chew it up with my just my teeth, and then giggle in maniacal glee as the blood ran down my chin.

a SAK with a toothpick would be nice for picking the little pieces of flesh out from between my teeth though.

That was the question.....right?
 
I had an anaconda once but it fought with my pit bull every night and kept me awake so I got rid of both'um and got a goldfish.
 
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