I have killed ~ 20 coons in the live trap with a single 22 CB short to the brain. It sounds like a BB gun.

They flop around for a minute.

Biggest I ever got was a 19 pound female.

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When I had a chicken coop, I used to shoot coons with a shotgun.
Then I got wise and protected the hens with an electric fence.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
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