Snake Medicine

[Citydude]

I see out of stock and no back order which is understandable at $1.42 per round. That is more in line with a high caliber rifle match round.
For a snake gun, I would get the Judge pistol in 45 long colt and shoot .410 shells in it. Those shot shells I think are basically for revolvers rather than semi-autos and even if you found them, they may not feed or cycle well in a semi-auto.

Good catch on revolver or semi-auto loads. I never knew the difference until I was trying to buy 45 loads for my father in laws S&W Governor. A sales person walked by as I was shopping and told him I needed 45 rounds and he asked which kind. Wheel or semi auto loads? Ugh, what? I was going to buy the wrong load...

 

[bullbreaker]

A trick I learned a long time ago with shovel is if you can scope some dirt and shove it in there face do it then whack em behind head. Also we know a coiled snake can lunge and one that's stretched out can only slither towards you.

 

[ArmyPair2]

:snake:I uses the same type of shot as nikdfish but in 9mm and only had to use them once. I was checking on one of my trail cams and when I turned around to walk off a rattle snake was only 3 feet away coiled up. This would be the first time I have seen one not rattle and slowly removed my pistol and dealt with him.

Now I don't go out of my way to shoot them because rattle snakes will let me know where they are or if in my wood piles. It's those darn copperheads I don't care for near my creeks.

 

[deerseeker001]

That will take care of problem.

 

[k0ua]

I see out of stock and no back order which is understandable at $1.42 per round. That is more in line with a high caliber rifle match round.
For a snake gun, I would get the Judge pistol in 45 long colt and shoot .410 shells in it. Those shot shells I think are basically for revolvers rather than semi-autos and even if you found them, they may not feed or cycle well in a semi-auto.

Gary those will feed fine in a semi-auto.. I know of no .40 S&W revolvers.. not that they may not exist, but you will notice that .40 S&W is a rimless cartridge designed for semi-auto's. I understand the judge with a .410 shell in it with small shot makes a fine snake deterrent. And yes the .40 cartridges are expensive, but just how many snakes were we planning to dispatch?.. I would think it would be a sometimes thing, in fact If I felt I was being invaded by venomous snakes, I believe I would go around with the 12 gauge as a constant companion

 

[k0ua]

Good catch on revolver or semi-auto loads. I never knew the difference until I was trying to buy 45 loads for my father in laws S&W Governor. A sales person walked by as I was shopping and told him I needed 45 rounds and he asked which kind. Wheel or semi auto loads? Ugh, what? I was going to buy the wrong load...

A rule of thumb, is rimmed rounds go in revolvers, and rimless rounds to in semi-auto's. But like all rules of "thumb".. there are exceptions. But when you get down to these kind of details you should be educated enough to know about these few exemptions. For instance there are one or two 9mm parabellum revolvers that are made to take the rimless 9mm semi-auto rounds. There were revolvers that could take .45acp rimless rounds with the aid of half moon or full moon clips. and I can think of at least one old obscure semi-auto that uses 38 special rimmed cartridges, and of course the Automags of various permutations that use the rimmed .44Magnum normally a revolver cartridge. Of course there is the ubiquitous .22LR which is rimmed, which fit rifles, pistols and revolvers. Of course there custom guns that can be made to chamber whatever you want.. but still the rule of thumb will serve the average person well.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Our female Boston came in one day with the side of her head about the size of a baseball. We're thinking a wasp got her. She hated them as much as I do

I noticed your avatar right away; we love our Bostons; have had them since the late '50's. Our latest little fatty is named Lucy Lu. She was supposed to get a companion who was to be named Ricky, but so far Rickey has failed to materialize.

 

[jerrybob]

We use to hunt rattle snake in Central Calif. and bar-b-q them. Actually pretty tasty.......I liked mine with some hot sauce. :snake::snake:

 

[Citydude]

We use to hunt rattle snake in Central Calif. and bar-b-q them. Actually pretty tasty.......I liked mine with some hot sauce. :snake::snake:

OK, that give me the keeps.....

 

[Citydude]

I noticed your avatar right away; we love our Bostons; have had them since the late '50's. Our latest little fatty is named Lucy Lu. She was supposed to get a companion who was to be named Ricky, but so far Rickey has failed to materialize.

Yep, We have always had 2. Cant imagine our house without them....