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in my line of work (name says it all), I have occassion to dispatch an occassional snake. In my younger years I didn't hesitate to lean over and take out a cottonmouth or copperhead with a plain ole 24 inch machete. As I got older, I started pocket carrying a cheapo, disposable snub .22 revolver with a couple rounds of snake/rat shot cartridges and the rest hollow points. With that one you still gotta be within the same "machete range". So even older, I now carry a (disposable quality) .38 J frame with a couple rounds of CCI snake loads, and the rest +P jhp's (we often have occassion to run up on other potential threatning critters too). The snubbie with shot shells can easily take out a snake from a safe distance, so I don't feel undergunned, not to mention that carried in a nice close fitting pancake holster my hands are free to actually carry on my business rather than a gun.

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