Got Me a Snake Shooter

[fta0303]

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!

I read somewhere that the human hand is 5 times faster than a rattlesnake's strike. True? Dunno But I do see videos of domestic cats successfully pulling away from a rattlesnake strike. The snake struck and the cat responded, so dam fast. I continue to admire the domestic cat, a nearby reminder of the magnificence of the larger feline species. A cat is an amazing animal. Burst metabolism, but so fast and strong in that burst.

 

[Comanche41]

I like to watch Corre caminos (roadrunner) with a rattlesnake.

 

[Teri Anne]

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!

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.

 

[oldfortyfiveauto]

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!

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.

 

[Teri Anne]

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.

Snakes in general are scarce here in Wisconsin when I go hunting because of the cold temps. Several years ago did run across a few timber rattlers when hunting for pheasants in the bluffs along the Mississippi, of course they disappeared into holes instantly dug with a load of #6 birdshot. Have I mentioned that I don't much like snakes!

 

[Brathany]

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.

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!

 

[fta0303]

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!

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.

 

[Brathany]

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.

Thanks!
I've tuned upwards of 100 AR15 triggers. Taught by John Holliger of White Oak Armory/Precision. I've gone on to tune my No4Mk2 Enfield, T/C muzzleloaders, and others.

 

[fta0303]

Then you know what you're doing!