nice kill on the snakes, I remember a case a while back out here where some guy was hiking in the woods with his family, stumbled across a rattler decided it was best to kill it. The PETA folks had a field day and he may have even been charged with cruelty, now this was a guy who had small children with him. I would not think twice about dropping any predatory creature in the wild, legal or not. If I were out in the woods and happened apon a mountain lion and my kids were with me that cat would eat some 45. That may be wrong but I do not care AT ALL