Got Me a Snake Shooter

Brathany said:

Meanwhile, cowboy Clyde was back at the bar wheezing in laughter at how he got a city slicker to believe snakes bite at the bullets!

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Brathany said:

Meanwhile, cowboy Clyde was back at the bar wheezing in laughter at how he got a city slicker to believe snakes bite at the bullets!

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ridgewalker said:

Hard to beat the 22LR #12 shot loads for snakes. Pretty devastating. I do load CCI 38 capsules and they work OK using #9 shot. If I could find #12, that should be even better out of the 38.
Have fun with your new toy!

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oldfortyfiveauto said:

I managed to get a bottle of #12 shot...works great. In 15 years of pdog shooting in South Dakota we never saw a rattler until last year. I shot two on that trip.

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Teri Anne said:

While snakes are not fast enough to catch a bullet, they are very fast when planting their fangs in your ankle. Back in the old days when stationed down in Texas a friend and I would check out Remington 1100s from special services and go out hunting rattlers using #9 target loads. Simply amazing what happens to a snake when hit with 1 1/8 ounce of #9 shot while sitting on a rock innocently sunning itself. Then there were those that crept out from under the rock you just stepped on.

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Brathany said:

Surprisingly enough, for 20 some years I hunted NW Texas hogs and only came upon them diamondbacks dead in the road. I wore snake guards the first 10yrs, but then stopped since I never saw them. Then the past two years, there's been an infestation of them in my area. Spotted 4 on the ground while out and about. My buddy has a Smith semi-auto 22 pistol and would step in and shoot them. So, since we aren't always together on the hunt, I figured I'd get a 22 revolver. (Shooting a 9mm or 45ACP at the ground close range doesn't settle well with me) Looked at the Ruger Wrangler, Heritage Rough Rider, Pietta, Uberti, Cimarron. Fast forward about 6 months since last trip and I went to organizing my shelves in the shop. I happened upon a bag of junk guns my FIL gave me a couple years ago. I about crapped myself when I saw this EIG E15 22lr revolver in the bag! You know, next to the Raven Arms 25 auto.

The hammer wouldn't hold back intermittently, and the thing was gummed up that not even the plunger to pop the cases out would move. (I'm not a SAA expert, so my nomenclature sucks) Watched a few Youtube videos on the trigger assembly. I saw one where the guy was demonstrating the angles of the sear on SAA triggers. My sear angle was bad, so I sanded it towards the right way. Put the thing back together after a good cleaning, and now it locks back solid and doesn't release with banging the gun or pushing on the hammer. Took it out and it shot fine, just the front sight is bent. So, I flipped over the front sight in the barrel notch and it straightened out! I'm pretty happy with how this went down and that I got it shooting safely and straightly in an afternoon's time.

Now I find myself wanting a 357/38 in a SAA...

Oh, BTW, my wife has a police model 19 S&W!

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fta0303 said:

That "plunger" is called the ejector rod. You're brave to work on the trigger mech. My Father worked over teh trigger in his .45 Colt SAA, it will fire if you look at it wrong. He used to do trick shooting with it, so the hair trigger was a benefit to him. Glad you got what you needed.

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