I spent a couple of weeks at the lease hunting turkeys and pigs.
I also had a run in with a few snakes.
First at 230pm I steped outside my little trailer to get someting out of the ice box and there, 2 feet from me was a 3 foot rattler.
I was in my camp shorts and did not have the Kit gun in my pocket so i shot the smake in the head with a LW Commander in 45 ACP.
After this I made sure I had the Kit Gun in my pocket 100% of the time.
It is a square butt Nickle 2" in 22LR. I had 2, later 3 CCI shotshells up first followed by regular 22 LR loads.
That night at about 1030pm I returned to the ATV after hunting pigs. There at the back if the ATV about 2 feet from my boots was a Copperhead snake.
I quickly pulled out the Kit Gun and gave him 2 of the CCI shotshells.
A couplde of days later I was checking a feeder for pig sigh when I spoted another 3 foot rattler coiled up under the feeder.
I walked up to about 3 feet and gave him one shot with a CCI shotshell.
I immediately saw blood come out of a wound in his head.
Later that same day, when leaving camp for the evening hunt I spotted a 2 1/2 foot rattler on the camp road stretched out, not coiled. I jumped off the ATV and gave him one shot from the Kit Gun again with the CCI loads.
I immediately saw blood come out of the head from two holes.
I was impressed at how well the CCI 22LR shotshells killed these snakes.
The wife and I have shot a lot of snakes with 38, 9mm, 45 ACP and 44 Special/Mag shotshells, so I have a basis of comparasion.
To my suprise these 22 LR shotshells did just as good on snakes, but I was up pretty close. No doubt the larger calibre CCI handgun shotshells work better farther away. They also work great on small game for the pot.
Also I butchered all the rattlers and fried them up, 3 times at the lease, and I am going to cook the last of them tonight with some fish, a black bass and some catfish the wife has cought out of our pond. In fact she is out there fishing right now.
Fried rattler is very good.
I put the meat cut up in @3" sections in a zip lock with some Zatterrans extra crispy fish fry batter and shook them up, then fried them in olive oil.
I also had a run in with a few snakes.
First at 230pm I steped outside my little trailer to get someting out of the ice box and there, 2 feet from me was a 3 foot rattler.
I was in my camp shorts and did not have the Kit gun in my pocket so i shot the smake in the head with a LW Commander in 45 ACP.
After this I made sure I had the Kit Gun in my pocket 100% of the time.
It is a square butt Nickle 2" in 22LR. I had 2, later 3 CCI shotshells up first followed by regular 22 LR loads.
That night at about 1030pm I returned to the ATV after hunting pigs. There at the back if the ATV about 2 feet from my boots was a Copperhead snake.
I quickly pulled out the Kit Gun and gave him 2 of the CCI shotshells.
A couplde of days later I was checking a feeder for pig sigh when I spoted another 3 foot rattler coiled up under the feeder.
I walked up to about 3 feet and gave him one shot with a CCI shotshell.
I immediately saw blood come out of a wound in his head.
Later that same day, when leaving camp for the evening hunt I spotted a 2 1/2 foot rattler on the camp road stretched out, not coiled. I jumped off the ATV and gave him one shot from the Kit Gun again with the CCI loads.
I immediately saw blood come out of the head from two holes.
I was impressed at how well the CCI 22LR shotshells killed these snakes.
The wife and I have shot a lot of snakes with 38, 9mm, 45 ACP and 44 Special/Mag shotshells, so I have a basis of comparasion.
To my suprise these 22 LR shotshells did just as good on snakes, but I was up pretty close. No doubt the larger calibre CCI handgun shotshells work better farther away. They also work great on small game for the pot.
Also I butchered all the rattlers and fried them up, 3 times at the lease, and I am going to cook the last of them tonight with some fish, a black bass and some catfish the wife has cought out of our pond. In fact she is out there fishing right now.
Fried rattler is very good.
I put the meat cut up in @3" sections in a zip lock with some Zatterrans extra crispy fish fry batter and shook them up, then fried them in olive oil.
