Speer .38 shot loads work just great on snakes. I shot this one while on a prairie dog shoot in SD a few years ago. It was the last day of the hunt, and I had always wanted a snakeskin on the wall, so I chopped its head off and put the snake in a Walmart bag in the bottom of a cooler full of ice.

When I got home, the cooler was not in the truck...I thought it had been stolen. The next year I was in SD again and told the motel owner that I had lost my cooler with the snake in it. He started laughing very hard.

It turned out that a group of paleontologists had been on a dinosaur dig when I was there the previous year and had been packing their vehicle at the same time I was. One of the women in the group grabbed my cooler, thinking it was theirs, and put it in their vehicle.

When they got to the airport in Pierre, the TSA agent asked her to show him what was in the cooler...I understand the screaming could be heard all the way to Rapid City.

I bought a new cooler, but I'm still looking for a snakeskin for the wall.

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Last edited by wildhobbybobby; 09/10/14.
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