Orient Express

I have a whip and practice making it crack. It sounds remarkably similar to a gunshot.

Considering I've spent somewhere in the vicinity of $13k over the past two years in snake bite related vet bills for my dogs any snake close to the house will get the chop. Yes they've done snake aversion training but it didn't work.

Not if they are a danger to yourself or pets

I have a snake problem around the house and shed. These are Brown Snakes and Red Belly Black Snakes which are two of Australians deadliest species. I'm trying to come up with a recipe for shotshell that will instantly dispatch them but also not go through the tin walls of the shed or have potential ricochet risks. A few weeks ago I tried 22lr ratshot on a 1.4m long Brown snake but all it did was annoy it. It would've died eventually but we wanted it dead now. I have ADI AS30N which is the rough equivalent to Clays or Red Dot. I did load up some shotshell with 12gn and rice with cork wads for my buckerette daughter to try out at the range for SASS but wander whether it would be powerful enough to dispatch a snake? These shells did sound very strange when fired, more of a pop not a boom like regular loads. Was it too underpowered for efficient combustion? Apart from trial and error, is there a rough optimal ratio between powder and load?

My lgs now advertises aps350 for sale, so there's new stock coming out of ADI.

The wiper is original, so 10 or so years old. I'll source a new one.

Postage from Australia might be a killer. As stated in my first post, I'm using the Pro auto disk

I've just starting reloading Trail Boss through my Lee Pro Auto-Disk and it leaks like a sieve. I've used the Lee Classic Turret press for about 12yrs using ADI AS30N which is approx equivalent to Clays. Whilst there was always a little leakage, Trail Boss leaks even worse. I resorted to using a Lee Dipper as that's my only only alternative. What powder measure works well with TB and doesn't leak?

I find it interesting people hate on the 22lr even though it was invented in 1887, over a decade before the 38spl.