Doc, fantastic gun pictures. The name on the sidelock speaks for itself. However, a scalloped boxlock looks about as nice as anything to my eye and the pierced toplever is icing on the cake.
Battle, the little pea shooter did well. It seemed like a couple of birds flew right through my pattern but I expect a little bit of that when shooting 1/2 ounce loads. It was the first time I shot it and it functioned as expected.
Mr. Newborn is correct about younger ones typically being more colorful and that is most definitely a cottonmouth. That snake was right at four feet and it is not real common for one that old to still have such vivid markings. We have a subspecies and the only way I know to differentiate between it and the standard cottonmouth is a thin light border along the dark brown patch on the side of the head.
