Snake Guns

I've killed the most number of snakes with a good old .22 cal. It doesn't take much to pop one. I think just about any caliber will do the trick. It's not like you need to make a good heart/lung shot! lol.

Unless I lived in South America and risked running into an anaconda, not much more is needed to kill any that dwell in this part of the world.
 
I to love snakes and don't like to kill em but i have had when i used to live on the edge of a lake.Since then i have taken steps to ensure that my family knows what to do in case of a snake crossing.I have heard for years that snakes don't like moth balls,so i have been doing that for about 2 years and so far we haven't seen any snakes.Either it works or we don't have snakes this close to the city.Either way i hope we're safe.
 
Our home is down in the bottom of a pretty steep hollow. There's a creek bordering both sides of our property. However, the only snakes that I dispatch of are the poisonous sort that come into the yard. Otherwise I leave them alone.
 
Hey Imp.

MrClean...is that a Bushmaster? It would just be even funnier if it was.
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Actually.... it's a RRA. But I have pics of Eddie on Bushmaster.....
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You and me must be a lot alike. I HATE hornets and wasps, and yellow jackets and whatever other flying insects with stringers. They have caused me a lot of pain over the years, a lot more so than the 1000's of snakes I've probably caught for fun, than released. I was one sore pup when a wasp stung me in the eyelid. If only ammo makers would stop making snake shot, and start making Bee/Wasp/Hornet loads.
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Now you're scaring me. I was stung by a yellow jacket in the eyelid at camp.

I got swarmed over last year in my backyard while mowing. I think I did a Jedi-style 50 foot leap, mower be damned, and ripped my t-shirt off all within .4 nanoseconds. I don't even remember how I got out to the front yard from the backyard, but I only got stung twice. I gasoline'd 'em after that. Found 2 huge ground nests. They remind me of tiny "Aliens" aliens.

Now snakes, I go running AFTER those.
 
I got lucky today.....I was out hunting brass to reload and walked past a 5 gal bucket that was on its side. Did not hear anything or see him until I felt the hit....I got hit on my right leg about 3 inches above the ankle...the lucky part is no fang marks or bite. I don't know if he hit me with closed mouth
(will they do that) or what but I was wearing baggy overalls heavy weight ones....sorry to say he died.
It scared me a lot and my advise is:::: NO MATTER HOW YA FEEL ABOUT SNAKES BE CAREFUL
they are there and don't always rattle.........just watch where ya walk......
 
A biologist friend of mine was in central Oregon collecting rattlesnakes for some research project. He saw a "snakey-looking" little knob and headed up slowly, but did not see any snakes. He said he got to the top and 1 started buzzing, and that set off a bunch more all around him, including the direction he had just come up.

Said he felt like Custer, out numbered and surrounded.

He just stood there until everything died down and then started collecting them so he could get off that knob.

I told him it was payback for being stupid enough to go looking for them to begin with.
 
I'm not a snake lover! To me, a good snake is a dead snake. I do not like them and don't want to be around ANY snake.

I know some of you defend snakes and that is your choice. Mine is to kill and destroy!
 
As far as I can tell, The judge is the best thing going for snake protection. But then I'm lucky. Here in Iowa BAD snakes are very rare. That being said, I'm not going out of my way to kill a snake but I'm not going out of the way to walk around one either. It's just a snake for gods sake. God gave em fangs and he gave me a trigger finger!!!

LK
 
I don't know if he hit me with closed mouth (will they do that)
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Some if not most rattlers dont even inject venom when they strike, but strike mostly to tell you "get the hell away from me." Most of your really bad snake bites are from either snakes that were stepped on, messed with or from young snakes that dont have control of how much venom they inject. But with all of the snake bites that i have seen, everyone of them have been treated the exact same way, because you just dont know how much or if any venom was injected.
 
For the "kill on rattle" types out there: One of the biology courses I took at college was on reptiles. One of the points that was made was that some rattlers don't rattle for some reason, but strike without warning. If folks kill all the rattlers that buzz to warn, what's left?:eek:

You need to be careful with the CCI .44 shot cartridges. If you load more than one in a revolver's cylinder, the recoil of a shot will make the shot capsule "jump" forward slightly and keep the cylinder from turning. The offending capsule can be pushed back with a finger, though.
 
I have used my NAA .22 mag combo with the LR cylinder and CCI .22 shot and it has worked well with snakes on my property. Although the "Judge" as someone said may be the ticket for snakes.
 
Until recently the smallest caliber handgun I owned was a .40, and my carry weapon a .45

I just bought 10 acres in DFW, with has about 3 acres of densely wooded (and overgrown with briars, saplings etc) land. I am currently clearing this 3 acres to turn in to horse pasture - but retaining larger trees for shade, whilst clearing anything that my tractor will not easily pass under.
My father-in-law gave me a .22 cal Ruger "New Model Single Six" (which is a fair bit older than I am - no idea of its exact age, but he is 82) and he tells me to get it loaded with "rat shot". I was at first slightly amused to be given a .22 caliber handgun. However, it is easier to carry than my Mossberg over-under, makes less noise than my XD. I've yet to dispatch a snake with it,, having only had one successful kill with a shovel. The noise from a .22 is substantially lower and less likely to spook livestock (or neighbors) than a shotgun.

I consider any and all snakes on my property to be vermin - my wife, horses, dogs and cats come first. I'd squish one as quick as I squished the scorpion I found napping between the pages of my newspaper. All new stuff for a city boy like me to deal with . . . :p
 
"...more people afraid of snakes..." If it isn't Yogi. In any case, shot shells out of a rifled barrel produce patterns with big holes. The shot string flies in a spiral sending the shot who knows where.
Leave Kaa alone and he won't bother you. Watch where you put your feet and hands though. You wouldn't want some clumsy lump stepping or manhandling you either.
 
I told him it was payback for being stupid enough to go looking for them to begin with.
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Amen brother!




I'm not a snake lover! To me, a good snake is a dead snake. I do not like them and don't want to be around ANY snake.
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I’m not a snake lover either. However, I won’t necessarily shoot them on site.

A couple months ago I was out on my land cutting down the weeds with a weed whacker along the north fence line. One area in particular has some stringy bushes that grow through the barbed wire which are too heavy to get cut down with the trimmer. When I got next to the bushes, I glanced up and there it was… the worst part is being startled; a snake, sitting in the bushes, at about chest height, probably three feet away, staring at me.

I immediately stepped back, set down the weed whacker and drew my 1911. The first three shots loaded in the mag we’re snake shot, the last five shots were people shot, I was ready for this bastard. I had him beaded, safety off, and finger ON the trigger, ready to go. And then I paused. I didn't fire, I just stood there for a second looking at him. It’s not a rattlesnake, that much I know. So I took a step to the left to get a better look at him and he turned his head to watch me go to the left. Took a step to the right, same thing.

He’s kind of cute. Wait a minute! Did I just say a snake was cute? I must be getting’ soft in my old age. Put the safety on, gun back in the holster, picked up the weed whacker and went home.

Don’t know what kind of snake he was, he had red and black stripes, but the lines between the stripes we’re NOT well defined. He had no other colors. This took place in southern Kalifornia. Maybe one of you snake people would know what he was. :confused:
 
When I'm in the woods, I'm in their living room. They were there first. Unless the snake in question is venomous and in a position to be a threat, it's "Have a nice day" and I go in a different direction. Now if I'm hungry for chicken...
 
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I tell you what i may not be but 15 years old but ican give you some snake stories... like one day me and my cousin were walking a dried up creek bed just looking talking and such all the sudden out of nowhere a snake jumps not falls JUMPS straight off the side of the creek bed and lands 2 feet in front of me. YOu thought forest gump could run? you shoulda seen us take off and we werent checking to see if he followed or what...another time me and my dad were coming home from town bad raining but we drove by the pound and saw somthing in the water it looked exactly like a big fish so we get out and i clinb on top of a fence ost gonna try and jump off and get it bout the time i get to the top it takes off the only thing was its was under me and 6 feet in front of me at the same time and i had just seen the biggest water moccasin of my life...so im sorry if im wrong but any and every snake i see i kill if i can and if i cant i go get dad or the truck one.

There more then one way to skin a cat
 
like one day me and my cousin were walking a dried up creek bed just looking talking and such all the sudden out of nowhere a snake jumps not falls JUMPS straight off the side of the creek bed and lands 2 feet in front of me.
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Just IMO, that sounds like a brown water snake. They're known for doing such things, especially dropping into a boat with you as a bluff. They're easy to mistake for a moc and sometimes have an "attitude," but they are non-venomous. However if you try to catch one they're sometimes known to have a nasty bite.
 
and I have never seen or heard of a snake actually chasing or attacking someone.
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I've had that experience, unfortunately. My buddy and I, when I still lived in south Florida, used to go out after work to shoot in west Broward County, where there used to be many drainage canals.

One day, as we were loading our guns and getting ready to shoot, a water moccasin came out of the water and up the bank and came right at us. We beat a hasty retreat and the damn thing still kept coming after us, and rather quickly at that. I took out my .45 and somehow managed to cut it in half. I always say that was and always will be the best shot I ever took in my life with a .45.

Why it came after us like that, I have no idea, but it apparently can and does happen at times. Oh, and by the way, it had fangs.
 
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