Got to try out my Heritage Rough Riders 22mag cylinder last week. Big 'copperhead' sunning itself on the dirt road just down from my place. Thought it was already hit but when I ran over it with car it twisted around and curled up.
Pulled off the road, grabbed the pistol, and went to take a look. Keep first two cylinders w/ snake shot.
Drew bead on its head and....snap....nothing. Dang manual safeties on a SA.
So as its slithering off I unload and it winds up dead. (Now carrying 3 cylinder w/ shot.)
Next day checked on it and hold up to examine. Oops...pointed tail, not blunt, still looked like a copperhead otherwise. Father-in-law driving by said it looked close enough for him. T
old later it may have been a cow snake. I said that it was the snake's fault then for looking so much like a copperhead.
I don't mind snakes if I know they are there but after killing a copperhead within about 10ft of where my daughter was playing a few years ago I am inclined to shoot first if it looks like another. Got that one with a hoe I was using at the time.
Be safe out there fellas.
Dave