The safest is probing, but you HAVE to have expierience doing it or else you could seriously injure your snake.
Well when you pop a male, both red hemipenes will come out, but when you pop a female, 2 white looking horns will come out at both sides. This is the main distinguishing factor between males and females.
If someone is trying to breed an older snake, i usually probe them a few times while i own them to make sure i didn't get any false readings the first time. I usually will pop all my younger snakes, but older snakes have a lot more muscle control down there, so you can injure them pretty bad by popping.
I would find someone local to help you learn and try both popping and probing on younger snakes, then you can try it on older snakes.
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