3 rounds to put down a raccoon?

[Brewer]

Thay are tough little trash pandas and hard to kill. The only for sure and fast is by car.

I always found drowning effective for raccoons. Either way, save the ammo.

 

[FisherTech]

I always found drowning effective for raccoons. Either way, save the ammo.

If you are in Ma$$holechusetts that is now a 7 year felony

 

[In God We Trust]

I killed a rabid (presumably) raccoon that attacked me once with the butt of my M-16. One golf club swing and it sailed about 10 feet and never got back up. This was back in the late 90’s when rabies was everywhere on the south shore.

 

[Brewer]

If you are in Ma$$holechusetts that is now a 7 year felony

Tennessee.

 

[highlander]

I can remember back in the late 50s early 60s local cops dispatching rabid raccoons and it taking multiple shots from their 38 special revolvers.

 

[NHCraigT]

It took me 3 rounds of 12g buckshot, fired point blank, to put down a rabid racoon in our yard about 3 years ago.

Several months later, I had to take down another rabid one with 3 rounds of .223.

3 seems to be the magic round count with rabid racoons.

 

[Roadglide]

I watched a cop once try to dispatch a deer that had been hit by a car. He totally whiffed on the first try……and he was standing right next to him. I’m not surprised it took this guy three

 

[Fixxah]

it's Lexington.......First time this guy has ever fired his gun!!

The shot heard round the toilet.

 

[Agnotology]

I watched a raccoon take a point blank .22 Mag (CCI Maxi Mag) to the head. Square between the eyes. Got back up and screamed at us. Loaded another, it bit the end of the barrel, put one down his throat. Third one was side-on, halfway between eye and ear. This one finally hit the off button.

For body shots, the heart and lungs are much closer to the front of the body than you would anticipate, and because of how furry they are, you can't get a solid visual on where the shoulder is. If you aim where the neck joins the main part of the body, and a touch low, you usually catch the heart/lungs.

 

[LittleCalm]

I just assumed the rule was keep shooting until it’s not moving. As others said, make it humane.

 

[Zappa]

I always found drowning effective for raccoons. Either way, save the ammo.

I like to whack them in the head with a shovel a few times until they stop twitching.

 

[Lank]

Couple years ago we had an apparently rabid raccoon here in our neighborhood. I shot it once in the head with a 9mm. DNR told me afterwards that if we needed to know if it was rabid or not, not to shoot it in the head because they need to look at the brain.

So, perhaps the office shot it in the body. I have NO idea where a racoon's heart is. That's why I shot it in the head.

This event must not have happened in mass i assume

 

[general disorder]

I like to whack them in the head with a shovel a few times until they stop twitching.

I've had issues with this technique in the past. And that's after a head shot and I thought it was dead until I went to scoop it up and throw it away. It ended out looking like a scene from Goodfellas.

 

[allen-1]

This event must not have happened in mass i assume

Georgia. We encourage self-sufficiency

 

[Blackmore]

A friend of mine came upon one that had been clipped by a car and managed to drag itself to the shoulder. He pulled over to dispatch it and all he had was a hammer. He was in the middle of the act as a loaded school bus drove by.

 

[Picton]

A friend of mine came upon one that had been clipped by a car and managed to drag itself to the shoulder. He pulled over to dispatch it and all he had was a hammer. He was in the middle of the act as a loaded school bus drove by.

All he had was a hammer?

At that point, I'd have just run over the poor thing and crushed it with my car.

 

[Coyote33]

Next time, use a pitchfork, or a puddle.

dupe:

https://www.northeastshooters.com/xen/threads/shoot-the-raccoon.98901/

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Thread 'Mainer attacked by rabid raccoon drowns it in puddle'

Jun 16, 2017

http://bangordailynews.com/2017/06/14/news/midcoast/maine-woman-attacked-by-raccoon-drowns-rabid-animal-in-puddle/?ref=relatedSidebar

Now that Borch is being treated for the virus, she’s more interested in figuring out how to jog in the woods again without fear of rabid animals attacking her. “I guess it’s reassuring to me to be able to do something like that if I needed to,” said Borch, a vegetarian who said she had never pictured herself drowning an animal. “It was me or the raccoon.” As for words of caution, Borch said, “If there’s any advice I have to give, it’s...

• Wendell
• Replies: 4
• Forum: General Discussion

https://www.northeastshooters.com/xen/threads/police-shoot-raccoon-at-my-house.344880/

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Thread 'Close quarters combat with a raccoon'

Sep 7, 2018

Let's say, just theoretically, you have a highly self-confident raccoon which knows how to open your dog door and visit your laundry room. Let's also say, theoretically, you have a 22 magnum rifle which does not have iron sights, just a rail for mounting a scope.

What would theoretically be the best close-quarters optic with which to engage in combat with said raccoon if it became necessary.

This is entirely theoretical. I would not fire a 22 magnum in my house or off my porch under any circumstance for pest control.

• hminsky
• Replies: 138
• Forum: General Discussion

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[Chris]

Never bothered to count rounds on varmints.

 

[Lank]

In mass you would have been tossed in prison