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I've killed more with 38 shot loads than anything else. Get the smaller size shot as I know they now have them with #4 shot too. I carry a 20ga around the yard a lot. ![[Linked Image]](https://s6.postimg.cc/d9sw1famp/copperhead_zpscuuilplv.jpg) Yep dats a big copperhead! Biggest one I ever got was 4 feet on the button...that one looks about the same!
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Who needs shotshells?  ![[Linked Image]](http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg17/rockinbbar/20170511_100442_resized_zpshrm9w3qy.jpg) Barry? How do a pair of Crocs work on cranial application on such creatures?
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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.38 Shot shells do a great job. Used CCI before and I loaded some of my own, using No. 9 shot in them.
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Mike also told about making his own snakeshot. Load powder. Load a gascheck. Load shot. Load an upside down gasckeck on top. Sounds like a good idea for 38s. I believe Venturino was loading 45 Colt.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé
Grandpa:the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Dad:son you have 2 choices for supper eat or don't eat.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Who needs shotshells? Barry? How do a pair of Crocs work on cranial application on such creatures? Hell No! Everyone knows you can shoot hogs while wearing Crocs, but Crocs were not made for stomping rattlesnakes... 
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Thankfully, Jake NoShoulders can't live in AK.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Who needs shotshells? Barry? How do a pair of Crocs work on cranial application on such creatures? Hell No! Everyone knows you can shoot hogs while wearing Crocs, but Crocs were not made for stomping rattlesnakes...
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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A few years back I bought a Ruger LCR 38 +P with a 3” barrel. It’s part composite, part steel and very light to carry...Thats why I bought it as my snake gun...I load it with 38 shotshells just for Mr. Snakes face, should we cross paths...
Anybody ever use a 38 shotshell in a gunfight against Mr. Snake? And, would this shotshell work on a body shot, say, against an 4-6’ foot long slithering sonsabitch?
😎 Are you talking timber rattler ? I am not familiar with Oregon snakes with the exception of JeffO.
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Who needs shotshells? You have a steady hand RocK...I am more of the "Holy Schit" when I hear rattle crackle... Locate, boom, boom, boom...And, KA-BOOM! Big Grin...Mark
Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog
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Campfire Oracle
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I've killed two rattlers and one cottonmouth with a bow/arrow.
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I prefer a 12" 16ga.
I mean I would..... Were it legal.
TRUMP- GABBARD 2024
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Steel, did you walk right up to them, draw, put your broadhead 3" inches away from its face and then release? Big hanging sack of ballz if you did that...I would be holding my cell phone, ready to call in an evac for you, while
I am standing 30 yards away...Maybe 50 yards. You go Tonto! Grin!
Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog
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Am going to stop whining about mosquitoes and black flies....
Defend the Constitution
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Who else remembers these lines from their youth????  At the hole where he went in Red-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin. Hear what little Red-Eye saith: ``Nag, come up and dance with death!'' Eye to eye and head to head, (Keep the measure, Nag.) This shall end when one is dead; (At thy pleasure, Nag.) Turn for turn and twist for twist- (Run and hide thee, Nag.) Hah! The hooded Death has missed! (Woe betide thee, Nag!)
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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i don't currently kill snakes, but i have. and plenty of them too.
my grandmom would kill a green snake whenever.
a hoe on the end of a handle does work.
no personification of evil.
they have a job.
snakes..?
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My summertime snake gun is a Charter Arms 4" bbl. revolver, .22 Mag., with CCI shotshells.
I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
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Who else remembers these lines from their youth???? At the hole where he went in Red-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin. Hear what little Red-Eye saith: ``Nag, come up and dance with death!'' Eye to eye and head to head, (Keep the measure, Nag.) This shall end when one is dead; (At thy pleasure, Nag.) Turn for turn and twist for twist- (Run and hide thee, Nag.) Hah! The hooded Death has missed! (Woe betide thee, Nag!) i do.
God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
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A few years back I bought a Ruger LCR 38 +P with a 3” barrel. It’s part composite, part steel and very light to carry...Thats why I bought it as my snake gun...I load it with 38 shotshells just for Mr. Snakes face, should we cross paths...
Anybody ever use a 38 shotshell in a gunfight against Mr. Snake? And, would this shotshell work on a body shot, say, against an 4-6’ foot long slithering sonsabitch?
😎 I use 38 shot in my SW 357 when rafting. It's stainless and I don't mind if it gets a bit wet in the 'dry box' of the raft. Killed a few snakes that were in camp. Ours about in the 2 foot range and usually head shots though.
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Who else remembers these lines from their youth???? At the hole where he went in Red-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin. Hear what little Red-Eye saith: ``Nag, come up and dance with death!'' Eye to eye and head to head, (Keep the measure, Nag.) This shall end when one is dead; (At thy pleasure, Nag.) Turn for turn and twist for twist- (Run and hide thee, Nag.) Hah! The hooded Death has missed! (Woe betide thee, Nag!) i do.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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I use a 4 foot stick and a pocket knife. Really.
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