[wardaddy]

Lol

Trust me

You know more about .22 caliber LR than 97% of folks here

Id be leery if somewhere snakes are a real threat relying on .22

I’d carry a little .410...
They make that in several revolvers now and floating pin box style too I think..

However small...that’s as impractical as .22 unless you’re a steady crack shot

Charter Arms I think used to make a survivor .410 in a two part little rifle gun that would store in the stock

It may have had an under barrel .22LR as well

This is memory from 30 years ago.....

Anyhow...you can buy a Stevens or JC Higgins single or side by side for less than 100 bucks used and saw down to 18 inches legally........shorten shoulder stock too....won’t be cumbersome

I spent 17 years off and on in serious tropical bush (yes...double entendre me please) and personally I carried a nice revolver in .357 or .38...latter easier ammo.....38 is everywhere

But that was for personal security....our staff usually had SLR...(Brit FN-LAR..think Dogs of War or Wild Geese or the ubiquitous in South America G3)

But for reptile threats...a fine machete...any will do....18-24”....wood handle

Martindale is top notch and found all over Africa...English made
Ontario is maybe world’s best....US made...heavy blade..chop chop
Tramantino....the only choice in Brazil....and a damn good one

I’m a Mississippi boy....I think seriously there are more cottonmouths and fat rattlers in Dixie than there are Bushmasters and Two Steps or Puff Adders in the tropics of both old and new world

I ran over a Bushie in Belize once between Belize City on Orange Walk by the old Mennonite air strip on the escarpment and we had a serious coral snake issue after flooding in Pedro Segunda (mines) in NE Brasil...pitiful it was...children died....usually leaving their hammock at nite to tinkle...we had to fly in antidote from Miami...Sao Paulo was out

Anyhow...God bless and rant over

[Paul R.]

I’d think that a .410 pistol with a shotshell would have a fairly wide pattern due to the rifling in the barrel - kind of a “can’t miss” deal for anyone who’s shot the gun a little? If the same is true for a .38, I might try shotshells with my buddy’s .38 and see what the pattern looks like at 5 and 10 ft. It’s still likely “too much” gun for my wife.

I was thinking of putting an Ontario machete on my wish list — but still think it’s a bit hairy for large snakes. Should be good for hacking though brambles on poorly maintained trails, though...

Thanks!

[Squantos]

I have a shooting range where you can count the rattlers by the hundreds if ya haven’t eradicated em for a few weeks., We have to wear snake chaps an boots when we mow it. My normal EDC is a glock 31 in 357sig.

When on the range I swap out to a SW 329PD 44 mag and load it with CCI shot loads. BTW ...My machete brand of choice was / is the Guatemalan “cornet” brand.....:0)

Stay Safe WD...

[Pelham]

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[Black Agnes]

Hubby uses a machete. Carries a .40 on him as well. When he’s out in the yard doing serious yardwork he’ll have the mossberg on the 4wheeler too.

But mainly the machete for snakes.

I use a hoe, don’t have to get as close :P

I’d love to have rikitikitavi as a guest in my backyard but it’s probably too cold here for them.