Re: .22 subsonic as snake ammo in suburbs?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 8:44 pm
I live in town. I used a shovel the one time I had a rattlesnake problem. Ymmv.
The first time I encountered a [very large] rattler here in TX we were camping on our newly-purchased land. Had no shovel (or firearm), just a metal prod of some sort that the previous owner had left. I did not want to see this monster again and tried to kill it by pummeling it with large rocks--no dice. I was finally able to stop its infernal rattling with the metal prod.
No, I am not proud (in hindsight) of what I did--if I had it to do over again I'd have left it alone, though now that we live here and are outside all the time and have outside domestic pets (dog and cats) I dispatch rattlers with a single gunshot to the head. Too bad for them that they found themselves in our protected space...