Rimfire Noise Levels

[Kudzu]

I am mulling over the idea of buying a rimfire revolver to carry when I hunt or when I am in the woods in case I meet a venomous snake. Like the deadly copper mouth water rattler.

Before I do so, I wonder if here is any significant difference in the noise level of a .22 Short cartridge compared to a .22 Long Rifle cartridge out of a short barrel revolver. It has been decades, many decades, since I last bought or shot .22 Short ammo so I can't recall at this time if there was a difference in the two.

My idea being that if I shoot, I don't want excessive noise disturbing the peace of the woods. If there is no difference between the two, ar at least no significant difference,I can cary a Ruger MK II pistol in .22 LR.

 

[17Hornet]

Dont know how much power you are looking for, but Aguila Super Colibri are basically a 20 grain bullet being pushed by a strong primer, about as quite as your gonna get. Down size to that is they are not very powerful, but enough to kill a snake. Also would only be used in a revolver as they will not cycle in an automatic.
Out of a pistol a standard velocity lr isnt gonna be a whole lot louder than a short, in my opionion

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

CCI quiets. I don't shoot snakes unless im going to eat it. Rattle snake it good eating. But i won't kill a small one.

 

[Kudzu]

Al -

I won't harm a black snake, a king snake or other non-venomous snakes but I don't want to get bitten going into a stand at dawn or coming out of a stand at night.

Back some time in the 90's, probably thirty years or so ago, there was an article in the Post and Currier, the Charleston, SC, newspaper about a low-county hunter who was putting out corn in preparation for the deer season or during deer season. He stepped off of an ATV onto a rattle snake and was bitten on the foot or the leg. The article described his near-death experience and his painful recovery. It has been a while now, but I seem to recall that fortunately, his daughter was with him at the time he was bit and that made the difference for him.

I am not a reckless, shoot anything out there, sort of a hunter. In fact, I have not shot a snake, rattler or otherwise, since I lived in Beaufort, SC and hunted Colleton County, SC. One was a rattle snake who was camped out on a corn pile, waiting for rodents or rabbits I guess. The other was also a rattle snake who was stretched across a path to a food plot.

 

[Kudzu]

Out of a pistol a standard velocity lr isnt gonna be a whole lot louder than a short, in my opionion

If such is the case, I might save some money and use CCI SV in my Ruger MK II pistol.