Raccoon Pack Attack -- What Handgun?

On the news they said she was trying to get the little ones off her porch. So I guess Mom and Pop didn't like her messing with the kids:D Or they are a new breed of flesh eating raccoons imported from South America like the killer bees:eek:
 
Brake cleaner? BB guns? You guys are no fun. Even a .22 seems pretty wimpy. It's gotta' be something in centerfire. :)
 
Shorts from a rifle(noise issues!) don't work fast on them. I have been thru the trap and release phase but that is a PITA without a truck, you gotta put them in the trunk, and everything well out of reach as they will shred anything they can reach, as some have said. I put bait in a catfood can and the thing ate the whole can once. He looked kinda ill when released. Pellet guns make them growl but they still come back anyway. My grans had a pet coon when I was a kid and that was the greatest pet, completely like a dog or cat, but wild ones are just a total nuisance and way overpopulated, especially in residential areas. Maybe keep an alligator on a leash in the backyard to control them.
 
Based upon my experience, the report from a .22 rifle only gets their attention, it doesn’t make them run.

I murdered two raccoons that were standing side-by-side. True story: My neighborhood has a huge raccoon problem, so I took it upon myself to try and thin the population. One night I saw two raccoons slowly coming up the walkway behind my apartment complex. I ran inside and fetched my .22 pump rifle and squatted around the corner of the building in the darkness waiting for them. I aimed the rifle about where I expected their heads to be when they rounded the corner. A moment later the first one poked its head around the corner. I clicked off the safety and squeezed the trigger. POW! He went down like a sack of potatoes. The second one turned and started to climb a chain link fence. I pumped another round into the chamber and shot the second one between the shoulder blades. He fell backwards off of the fence, hit the ground, and started to scramble. I pumped two more rounds into him center-of-mass, and he went down for the last time. The whole thing took place in a span of about five seconds or less. It was awesome! I felt like Charles Bronson discharging a firearm within city limits. Except in the movies they never show the part where Charles Bronson has to put the bodies in garbage bags and sneak them into the dumpster of the restaurant next door. That’s the uncool part. Also, I don’t remember Charles Bronson having animal-loving neighbors who called him a “monster”.
 
Nothing worse than an attack by a pack of angry raccoons. Maybe the ideal solution would be to single out the leader and try a non-threating, sit-down negotiation and offer cookies, nuts, and peeled bananas. If the raccoons are not in the mood to negotiate, offer to build them a condo, give them food stamps, unemployment compensation and welfare dollars and free veterinarian service. Give them and their children free schooling and teach them non-violent methods to co-exist with humans. If that doesn't work, take out whatever weapon you may have, and blast them into eternity.
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That's funny right there - I don't care who you are.......:D
 
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When there is an abundance of food family packs; 3 to 4 generations of females and young males will stay together and forage as a pack. Several years ago my brother and I with some school friends went camping in the Pennecamp park in the Fl. keys. The raccoons would roam in groups of 8 to 10 and were totally unafraid to the point of climbing on tables and stealing the food from plates and openining ice chests. We threw coconuts at them and they avoided us, but opened our latched cooler and popped the soda cans. We saw one group open a zipped shut tent and proceed to take it down and run off with clothes and tried to steal a sleeping bag til it snagged and wouldn't pull free. I use a 45 LC just because I can and they don't move after the 1st shot.
 
I have shot and killed more then a couple racoons with one round from a .22 If you are trying to kill off a pack the you had better get back on target fast. But they will most likely run after the first shot.
 
We can thank those who discourage hunting, trapping and the wearing of fur (also the Russian economy) for the overpopulation and spread of disease.

Back on topic. If you do get a chance to legally shoot a pack of coons use the one you brought! Good practice for the carry gun and an opportunity to see the ammo in action.
 
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Nothing worse than an attack by a pack of angry raccoons. Maybe the ideal solution would be to single out the leader and try a non-threating, sit-down negotiation and offer cookies, nuts, and peeled bananas. If the raccoons are not in the mood to negotiate, offer to build them a condo, give them food stamps, unemployment compensation and welfare dollars and free veterinarian service. Give them and their children free schooling and teach them non-violent methods to co-exist with humans. If that doesn't work, take out whatever weapon you may have, and blast them into eternity.
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hilarious...

I murdered two raccoons that were standing side-by-side.
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you s.o.a.b.!
MURDERER!
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
 
For good ideas,I'd probably go watch a few Clint Eastwood movies,oh,and "The Last man Standing",and The Wild Bunch,followed by Tremors.I love Reba.

A pair of double stack .45's might be good,no time for mag changes,and remember,thats just to fight your way back to your Win '97 Trench gun,with the bayonet fixed,you keep stuck in the ground by the horseshoe pits.Don't forget that,planning ahead,you buried those rigged oil drums.When they step into the zone,grab the switch and hit the fougasse!!!
Then reload the 45's and the '97
"cuz you never know.

Did you ever see the documentary "Birds" by Alfred Hitchkock?
 
Years ago we camped out at Custer State Park in Mich, took a weeks food along, tied up the coolers etc. Got back to camp every bit of food was gone. Later that night some huge coons came back for the stash they left. I look out the camper door and said "shoo" this huge coon maybe 45 lbs stood up and growled at me, I shut the door. Next night I threw hot dogs under campers of my friends so I could hear them coons fight and keep them folks up :) had my fun all week long. Them was huge coons.
 
why these beasts should be shot

This photo illustrates why these perverted creatures should be shot. If this was my hunting dog, I’d probably shoot him too just to end his humiliation.

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Just to show you that this scenario is not entirely far-fetched...

I own a 120lb. Akita/St. Bernard mix. For years she has chased Coons out of our big suburban back yard. I lost track of all the critters she has killed in our back yard. Squirrel (numerous,) duck, snake, turtle, even a juvenile badger. I'm not kidding.

Now she's old. Last winter, she was indoors. 4 BIG coons invaded her dog food. When she discovered this, she was most eager to get them.

Before letting her out, I shooed the coons away from her bowl, to give them a chance to escape before letting the dog out.

They turned on her and attacked her. Dunno if its because she was old, or because she got to the slowest member of the pack and they decided to protect it, or what. But they got her from 3 sides. One on each shoulder, and one on the haunch. 4th coon was under her paw.

I ran out with the nearest weapon I could find (broom) and knocked the dog over trying to knock the coons off her.

My wife heard the ruckus and came out. She saw what was happening, then did her best impression of a mama grizzley. The coons either got scared, or started laughing. Either way, they left. Vet took care of multiple bites & scratches to our dog.

Next time, it will not be the broom.
 
Do not even try to deal with racoon packs with a handgun.........
There is only one answer to these gangs of bandits
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Duke and Mike!
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