Hope you don't mind if I hi-jack your thread since it is a very similar question.

How many of you believe that popping can be dangerous to the snake, such as if the snake is too big and/or old? Does it depend on the species?

At first I had heard that only hatchlings could be popped, and this was when speaking about ball pythons. Then someone told me that, at least in theory, any size and age snake could be popped, the only issue is that really big snakes would just be physically impossible for human hands. I have believed that I've read people here on bp.net talk about popping their snakes including adults, but my memory is not clear enough to be sure if the word popping was used or if I just assumed that was the method being used.

Now, I have once again been told that popping adult snakes is dangerous. This time it was on a cornsnake forum, so it may be a species specific thing. It seemed to be a widely held belief there.

So, can BPs of any size and age be popped safely? What about other snakes?