I would have emptied a full clip on it, then I would have reloaded! I'm not a snake lover.
I know many folks who feel the same way. I have had several 'pet' snakes including a Burmese Python. Bought it as a 6 week old 'baby' about 18 inches long and weighting only a couple of ounces. Two years later it was about 13 feet long and weighted in at 87 pounds. I was just a kid (16 years old) and living at home so once it reached that size by parents made me get rid of it. I found it a great home w/ a herpetologist who had half his living room glassed off for his other pet snakes.
The python I had never bit anyone, never even hissed. Very gentle snake. It liked being held – liked the body heat. It was a tropical snake and maintaining the correct temperature and humidity level proved quite a task.
Other snakes I’ve owned have been very cross-tempered and would hiss and strike and bite if they got half a chance.
Wild snakes are best left wild. Venomous snakes should not be tolerated around areas where people and pets frequent (houses, front/back yards, etc.).
Rattlesnakes are dangerous but they are docile as compared with copperheads. I’ve seen a copperhead come after a friend of mine, until he shot it. The weird thing about it is rattlesnake venom is more potent than that of copperheads.