About every third year before I started keeping my horse feed in steel drums with a mechanical ring that seals the drum, I would get coons coming in the night for the feed. They would open the lids of the garbage cans I kept the feed in and sample all the feed on the first night. On later nights, they would come and open up only the can that contained horse feed of the highest protein level. I don't know how they figured out which feed had the most protein, but they did. I sometimes trapped them and then shot them at point blank range with a .38 round, or I would shoot them at night with a .22-250 head shot. ( the glowing eyes make a nice target) Other than moving them backwards a couple of feet, the .22-250 puts them out immediately. I of course had to be VERY sure of my backstop.
Two questions about raccoons
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