unclenunzie
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Get a Lee sizing die. I run .45 Colt gas checks through a .44 Mag sizing die -- lubricate them first!!
Thank you Vern Humphrey.
Get a Lee sizing die. I run .45 Colt gas checks through a .44 Mag sizing die -- lubricate them first!!
Did you ever read "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Albee?I just walk around a rattlesnake unless it’s close to my house or garage. If it is close I relocate it a good distance away. Leave the snakes alone and they will take care of your rat and mouse problems. I have no experience with copperheads and water moccasins. Living conditions are apparently too tough for them here.
Sounds like fun!Vermin control doubles as good sport bouncing along on the rider and quick drawing before they make cover.
It didn't come back after the third time.How did he know it was the same snake?
No venomous snakes other than rattlesnakes in this part of the country, but we have pets and grandkids, and we'll probably have great-grandkids before long. So even though I leave snakes of all kinds alone in the wild, I don't tolerate rattlesnakes on or near our property. There's usually enough non-venomous snakes, feral cats (subject of another thread), foxes and coyotes to keep the gopher and vole populations in check around here anyway.I leave snakes alone in the wild, but I have pets and kids. If I see a water moccasin or copperhead in my backyard, I will kill it.
It didn't come back after the third time.
Learned a new one yesterday. Do not use the speer capsules to terminate a hole chewing, insulation destroying, attic inhabiting pine squirrel inside an aluminum downspout. Something about riding along the metal downspout doesn't allow the capsule to fragment and they hit like a Glaser safety slug, putting a rather large hole in the elbow on the other end. Got the squirrel though!
Learned a new one yesterday. Do not use the speer capsules to terminate a hole chewing, insulation destroying, attic inhabiting pine squirrel inside an aluminum downspout. Something about riding along the metal downspout doesn't allow the capsule to fragment and they hit like a Glaser safety slug, putting a rather large hole in the elbow on the other end. Got the squirrel though!
Sounds like fun!
Made me think of the year (probably 15 years back now) we had a real vole plague around here. When our grandsons were out to the house, I'd drag a water hose out in the pasture and flood the voles out of their tunnels, then watch as our grandsons tried to smack them with shovels as they made for other tunnels. I should have tried the #8 shot in my 44 Mag trick when I was by myself.
WACK=MOLE
How long was the downspout, Random (muzzle to bullet hole)? The capsule still had quite a bit of energy to penetrate the corrugated aluminum 90......and maybe a squirrel....
Never gave it much thought, but the CCI shotshells use a very thin plastic capsule but the Speer capsules are more substantial to allow handloader access for filling. May have to do a bit of experimenting "in the interest of science", as my gunsmith friend and mentor used to say.
This pattern was shot on one of those thin corrugated cardoard boxes at 8-10' and the Speer capsule appears to have hit nose first making a wadcutter like hole in the cardboard. Wish I had dug into the (packed) dirt to check penetration. Doesn't look like these capsules disentegrate, especially with your results. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Regards,
hps
I shot a big water moccasin with a .22 LR shotshell. Made it mad! Luckily I was able to kill it with the 5 remaining cartridges of CCI stinger. There was a bit of excitement on the bass boat that day.
Buddy of mine had that happen in a swamp in NC. Thing fell out of a tree into his boat. Had a pistol decided that wouldn't be good. Paddled it to death.
They generally won’t cycle