410s are great, and I taught the kid to use them, but I taught him to leave snakes alone too.
You cant have a snake infestation, but Rattlers are pretty benign
I used to think that way, until the day I was riding with my husband on a tractor and I saw a big rattler strike one of the front tires! From then on, my favorite way to describe a mean person was saying "he/she is meaner than a rattlesnake with a headache". And I've lost count of how many of them I've shot... the only good rattler is a dead rattler.