My sentiments exactly, Ric. I keep a .410 with me at pond. My pond was built last summer and stocked last fall and this spring. in the last 3 weeks we have taken out at least 40 various snakes of all sizes. Now I'm also waging war on the turtles. I saw them eating the channel cat fry that spawned. I would rather my bass have them to grow on. The .410 works really well if not too far and is safer than the .22.