Brent,
It looks like you take things kind of serious in Northern Michigan.....and with good reason!!!!

I feel sorry for the folks in FL with their Everglades being the "melting pot" for exotic stuff now. I hear that now cobras are in the mix as well as some other nasties.

My "canoe gun" is a barely legal 16 ga H&R single shot shotgun with the barrel cut to 18" and I had Diamond D Leather make a 16 ga leather buttstock ammo carrier for it.

Loads are #1 buck and slug. Being that it is so light,the recoil is quite substantial but might be the right stuff for a canoe trip in the Everglades.

Wayne