My only snake kill was a red mojave in Arizona. A .40 S&W shot cartridge did the trick from about 6 feet. I still have the skin preserved in alcohol somewhere around here. (The original plan was to treat it and make a hat band of something. Never got around to it.)

One thing I did learn was that the CCI .40 S&W shot rounds would cycle the slide on a Sig 224, so when out and about in the desert I carried 2 or 3 rounds of shot, backed up by hollow points.

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Dean
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