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I got a 22 rimfire AND a 22 Hornet leaning at the kitchen slider right now for ALL raccoons, even those exhibiting normal behavior. Also lets the mudshark across the street know she had better keep her pet in check.

Our city shoots every raccoon that comes into town. What most people don't realize is that raccoon droppings contain millions of round worm larva and it will go through human skin like when the grandchildren are out in the yard bare footed.

I don’t know that the 20 gauge is the route I’d take in an urban environment.

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In a rational world of common sense adults, yes.

In this irrational drama driven society we live in now, I am not so sure.[/quo

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Phoucking trash panda

set a live trap for that fugger

could always kill it with a bow if you need a stealth approach. i'd kill every one even the non-rabid acting ones.

Sweet Jesus

CALL THE POLICE!!!!!

375 h&h

Or 44 mag

Over penetrates.

Well I went for the 20 gauge but by the time I got outside it was gone....so it is a mute point. I don't normally carry a shotgun or anything in going out to wash a car or whatever. If it shows back up there is now means of extermination at easy access.

This is the state of masculinity today: men reduced to calling the police on raccoons.

I’d go with the two-two. 20 gauge seems a bit... overt.

Just my opinion.

Airguns are noisier that a .22.

This is the state of society today - use a firearm, face criminal charges.

I would say that most dolts that live in subdivisions (ie- crazy old lady, etc) are so consumed in their tv programs, running a vacuum, air conditioner running wide open, or just too zonked out on prozac, [bleep] or whatever to catch onto a single gunshot. They either wont know what it was or where it came from or completely miss it.

My mother in law- aka edith bunker...lives about 1/8 mile away from us up the road. I shoot my 6.5x284 off my master bedroom deck on occasion, discharge my savage 10ml. I always ask if i bothered her or woke her up...her and the old man both say they never hear me shooting. Good grief!!! Old people are something else.

Well insulated house, heat pump running, tv blasting for old fugg's hearing deficits.

i say go for it

Shoot the coon, blame it on MS13.

Done.

Yep, what slumlord said, I was shooting a .22 with high speed hollow points from inside the attached garage on Friday and Sweetness said that she never heard it from the bedroom. You might want to drop that back to those quiet CCI's suggested earlier, but one shot from a rifle when you are not expecting it is hard to pin point. Get rid of the things. Have you ever seen what a few of them will do to a corn field?