I started out with a single shot .22 Ithaca lever gun. I got a little older I picked up a High Standard 9 shot revolver. I used to use .22 short hollow points because they stayed in a head shot fox. We had some seriously big coons around. One morning I checked a railroad bed and the first set had a big coon in it. I shot him in the head and he went right down and just laid there. I was in a hurry and thought nothing of it. I did not bother throwing him in my pack because I was coming back that way anyway. When I got back the coon was sitting there like the RCA dog and really pissed off. I got out a .22 long and shot him. When I skinned him I found the slug had gone through a sheet of muscle across his forehead and just flattened out on the skull. When coons get older they can have muscle a 1/2" thick on their heads. That was the end of the .22 short hollow points for me. I started just using shorts.
