P22 Snake/Rat shot?

[Guest tngw1500se]

Will a Walther P22 feed any type of "snake/Rat" shot. I'd like to keep it loaded for snakes.

[R_Bert]

You might get first shot off, but it will not cycle the action as I recall.

 

Use a revolver.

 

You know killing snakes is illegal, right?

Edited February 16, 2014 by R_Bert

[Oh Shoot]

If you're close enough to snuff a snake with a .22 shotshell, you're close enough to be bitten.

 

- OS

[RED333]

I have some in my arm, shot from 3 feet by a dumb ass many years ago.

You have to be very close to make it work well.

[Wingshooter]

I keep some for my 44 SBH but have never needed it. I don't know about the P22. A revolver would be better I'd say

[nightrunner]

You can manual feed but it wont feed from magazine. I tried it with a buddies pistol.

And to echo previous posters, .22 shotshells have to be very close to work and you would need a perfect shot to stop a snake. Something around .44-.45 caliber would be best. .45acp, .45colt, .44mag, etc.

[Dennis1209]

Regardless of the law, we like our snakes around here. Unless it's a cotton mouth defending it's territory around my pond and runs me off. Then I have a serious talk with it about who pays the property taxes around here.

[bigtruuck]

I use the .22 shot shells in my p-22 for shooting mice in the house (its just me and the dog) it wont cycle but does get them from apx 10-30 ft. With no damages to any other surfaces Sent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk

[Rowdy]

You might get first shot off, but it will not cycle the action as I recall.
 
Use a revolver.
 
You know killing snakes is illegal, right?

It's legal to kill a snake if you're threatened by it. YMMV...

[R_Bert]

It's legal to kill a snake if you're threatened by it. YMMV...

care to quote a statue?  Its not game, and there is no season. Proving you were threatened is problematic.

 

If one has an actual nuisance issue with snakes, then call a licensed nuisance wildlife person.

Edited February 16, 2014 by R_Bert

[Dolomite`s Breezy]

if the snake( venomous) is on your property and you have to dispatch it because it was threatening  your lifestock/family etc.. I am sure no cop or anyone else would fault you.

No one is going to let their family get in harms way.

I wont...And I am sure others wont either..

 

The law says you cant harass or move a snake or kill it ..true.. but that doesn't include self defense.. that's just stupid

[R_Bert]

http://www.tennsnakes.org/ (can't kill them, as stupid as it may be)

 

and the persons legally able to resolve snake issues - http://www.tn.gov/twra/pdfs/adclist.pdf

 

The last TGO discussion (statutes are down the page) http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/19329-snake-killing-law/ (as relates to no season)

Edited February 16, 2014 by R_Bert

[jhc77]

I dispatched one in the back yard where my 4 year old plays with a BB gun from 30'. Won't cause the local PD to cruse around either.

[79troublehead]

If you shoot the snake, keep your mouth shut. If the snakes brothers don't rat you out, you're cool. (Pick up your cases so csi can't do the firing pin thing.)

[Dolomite`s Breezy]

S S S  :)

[Oh Shoot]

I'd posit that over half the folks in the US try to kill every snake they see, and I expect ratio of TGO folks is about the same.

 

- OS

[seez52]

Used to do this in the barn was great fun and requires you to be pretty fast sometimes

I use the .22 shot shells in my p-22 for shooting mice in the house (its just me and the dog) it wont cycle but does get them from apx 10-30 ft. With no damages to any other surfacesSent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk

[Sidewinder]

Wal Mart on Old Fort in the B'oro has CCI rat shot (shot shell) ammo in stock. Kinda pricey though. Three boxes (20 count per box) cost $29.95, after taxes. CCI doesn't have the crimp on the end, like the old rat shot...they have a plastic round nose...may feed, I don't know. But, at close to 50 cents a shot, you may not want too many of them feeding!

[Rowdy]

care to quote a statue?  Its not game, and there is no season. Proving you were threatened is problematic.
 
If one has an actual nuisance issue with snakes, then call a licensed nuisance wildlife person.

No argument about the statutes Bert, they are there. My point is the enforcement of them. In my neck of the woods there are pictures in the newspaper every summer of large dead rattlesnakes, who killed it and where. And to my knowledge not one has ever been prosecuted. Most people that see a rattler or cottonmouth in their yard, the place where their children or grandchildren play, don't call a licensed nuisance wildlife wrangler.

[bersaguy]

If I find an venomous snake in my yard it will be visiting its ancestors in a short period of time and it will be my word against the dead snake as whether my life, life of family or pets was threatened or not and I don't think the snake will be talking......................jmho

[chances R]

care to quote a statue?  Its not game, and there is no season. Proving you were threatened is problematic.

 

If one has an actual nuisance issue with snakes, then call a licensed nuisance wildlife person.

Doesn't this come under 'stand your ground'? :ugh:

Edited February 18, 2014 by chances R

[Sidewinder]

Just curious, has anyone tried the CCI, with the round plastic nose cone, to see if they would cycle? Like I said, at near 50 cents each, I'm not going to be wasting any...just to see if they cycle! I'm sort of frugal...uh, cheap!

[TrickyNicky]

Just curious, has anyone tried the CCI, with the round plastic nose cone, to see if they would cycle? Like I said, at near 50 cents each, I'm not going to be wasting any...just to see if they cycle! I'm sort of frugal...uh, cheap!

They don't.

[Sidewinder]

They don't.

Did the plastic nose cone fall off?

[TrickyNicky]

No, it just doesn't cycle. Not enough energy.

You can manually feed them ok, but it probably depends on the gun even for that.