Your Gartering "Technique"

[person365]

Kyle your grip is a lot worse than mine and you roughen the snake up pretty good

[infernalis]

Since I have acreage, I place sheets of plywood along the edge of the meadow and woods.

every day I look under them.

Caught a wild flame that way :-)

And I use the money technique with breeders too, very effective.

regards,
Wayne A. Harvey

[dashnu]

I usually find a stick in the woods for "roughing" up the grass / rocks / trees and reach down and grab them! I get bit often.. I found foot and a half eastern the other day and my three year old daughter grabed right a hold of it before I could say a thing!! Crazy how you can mold them at that age. Luckly she did not get bit. We had yet another quick chat after that

[Zephyr]

Kyle your grip is a lot worse than mine and you roughen the snake up pretty good

I use the fingertip technique. You, however, use the fist one. D<

[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!