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But don't want to pay $25 for a CHEAP one?

Make your own!

I bought a golf club at Goodwill for $5.
I bought a garage hook at Walmart for $.60.

Cut the head off the golf club, cut the threads off the hook.
Apply some Gorilla Glue...
and BAM!
$10 snake hook.

I figured I plan on doing a lot of hiking, and if I see a snake...I'm going to want to catch it. Might as well be prepared.

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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

That's not a bad little hook for the investment. I wouldn't try flipping much with it, however.

Back in the early 80s, the only real source of "professional" snake hooks was Furmont and they were hard to come by and expensive (still are), we used to make snake hooks out of all sorts of odds and ends.

I made some pretty nice "professional-looking" hooks out of aluminum gun cleaning rods. I would bend the end into a snake hook, file down the tip to taper the point and voilà, a light weight snake hook that unscrews into three separate pieces! You couldn't flip with them, but they were great for unscrewing and putting in a backpack.

We also used to buy narrow galvenized steel bars and bend them the same way and insert them in wooden handles. They were pretty strong and didn't cost much.

Our local hardware chain used to sell "one-pronged" cultivators. They were about $6 and had a single narrow curved steel hook on the end for digging. They were the best store bought flipping hooks ever made, IMHO. You simply had to shorten the handle of head out herping.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas