I have a friend who hunts them quite a bit. He uses a hangun to dispatch them with. He also brings a 1 gallon can of gas incase he can' t get them out of a hole. It' s either gas or kerosene that he used.... I thought he said if you used one of those it would bring thier body temp down quickly and it would " freeze" the snake so you could pick them up. He used to do stuff for rattle snake roundups. Maybe you could do a search on roundups and ask them. They probably know more about snakes and snake hunting than anyone else. If I were you I would wear snake boots, but I guess you could just do like that austrailian guy and go barefoot and in shorts.