Raccoon Pack Attack -- What Handgun?

last month i had a raccoon family take up in my barn. I think the 4 babies were botn here, cause i saw mommy raccoon a month earlier alone.
anyway, they had gotten into the feed and were all getting big FAST!
naield mommy with 9mm (emp that i was carrying), felt bad, for a time, but once i tried to relocate a pair 5 miles away. in 8 days they were back!
day after mom bought it, i found the 4 youngins swimming in the horses water tank. don't know if they went for a drink and fell in or what. grabbed 'em one at a time by the scruff of the neck and put 'em in a hav-a-heart cage and relocated them to a nice wooded area about 10 miles away. theyr'e cute when they're small.
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20 miles is the recommended distance. Be aware of the laws though. In my state, it is illegal to relocate them.

I have killed many with a .177 pellet gun after they were trapped. It requires a very well placed shot though and that is tough when they are in a cage. I recently started using a 22 though and that was better.

From what I have seen, including a coon that took multiple shots from 9mm, they can take some punishment before keeling over.
 
Have you tried .500 S&W yet? :) At least a dozen people on here will say 1911 in .45 cal if you give them time to find this thread.
 
if it were me,I wouldn't use a handgun,but rather a high capacity .22 semi auto rifle.I encountered 2 raccoons in our barn with one,and popped one to down it,ran and double tapped the other one and came back and shot the first racoon again.Worked out well.Stay away from scopes if you get a rifle,you will probably be shooting them at too close a range anyways.As for handguns,I think a .22 would be good,or maybe a .38 revolver with shotshells.
 
Anybody actually ever kick a coon??? Coons are vicious predators that will clean out a chicken pen in a hurry and a big one will peel the average dog's head if he gets in the way. I'd slap Mike Tyson in the face before I'd kick a coon.
 
Fill a super soaker with gasoline, a clothes hanger attatched at the front holding a piece of wadded newspaper. Light the paper and you'll anihalate them all up to 30 ft.
 
Hell yes, for anyone who's ever tangled with a coon can attest, they're tough little s.o.a.b's.

I'd grab the guage with the double o's. (and keep the 9mm in my pocket just in case)
 
I've seen one raccoon chasing another across I-17 in northern AZ (male chasing female???), and I don't think you can out run one.:D
 
Raccoon Pack Attack -- What Handgun?
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The one with, you know, "the switch".
 
I've seen one raccoon chasing another across I-17 in northern AZ (male chasing female???), and I don't think you can out run one.
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Agreed, they are fast little critters.

Not to derail this thread or anything, but there's a lot of critters we don't necessarily think of as dangerous that can do a surprising amount of damage. Beavers for instance. Nobody thinks of beavers as dangerous, yet when you're in a kayak where your bellybutton isn't much above the waterline and a beaver is making a beeline for you, and it occurs to you that these critters eat trees for a living... :rolleyes:
 
I use to have them come in my back yard all the time. I could never understand why, I had three dogs and my neighbors had none. But they kept showing up dead in my back yard. Them and Opossums just don't seem to have a chance with a 100# red bone coonhound, 98# American bulldog and a 80# pit.;) Didn't need a gun. But my pellet gun worked pretty well.
 
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