back when I wore green every day ,had a SC Cracker in my unit that took me home on leave to hunt hogs. Dogs brought them to bay and he or one of his kin would jump onto their backs and stick them in the throat with a 6" sheath knife. They caught water moccasins by hand and put them into a burlap bag flung over a shoulder. They never said what they did with those snakes...I've often wondered.