Body shots on bandits?

[Dr. Kralenstein]

This is a REALLY BAD idea. Acetone does not have the same effect on a raccoon.

Not fond of experimenting with poisoning animals. If I can drop it from a lung shot, better a heart shot if it'll get through one of the lungs to it, would be ideal. I don't want to shoot it and shoot it and shoot it. Not for pelt damage, for my conscience.

I remember when my dad caught a ground hog in a have a heart trap years ago. He didn't have a gun, or even a pellet gun, just took an old sword we had as kids and stabbed it to death. The screaming that poor thing did... over and over... I seriously think my dad was having a Nam flashback or something with how many times he stuck that bastard.

 

[N2 Shooter]

I have dispatched about 4 raccoons in foothold traps with a 45 fpe .25cal slug to the vitals. You get a quick screetch and they bleed out internally. I have also taken a few from a window with bodyshots, but I was using the Bulldog .357cal at +160fpe with either Polymags or NSA 110gr slugs. Both ammunitions worked, with the distinct edge to the NSA slugs.

 

[BlackICE]

A 50 plus fpe .25 to the Head works just as well as a 357 to the body, if not better.

 

[N2 Shooter]

A 50 plus fpe .25 to the Head works just as well as a 357 to the body, if not better.

I'm sure it does. But the OP wanted to know about bodyshots as they want to preserve the head and hide.

 

[Turboram]

I have shot quite a few racoons with my .25 condor and slugs. Vital shots dropped them within 10 feet . That said I prefer my .357, it usually made them drop and twitch on the spot.

 

[Wordplay341]

Had one take 10 rounds of 44.8 grain hybrids out of a 30 cal last night before getting finished with an ar

 

[rayroz]

Dont mess with them ! They are evil .

 

[BlackICE]

At what range in feet per second or those 30 caliber pushing. I would expect if you had a few of those hit the lungs or hard it would have eventually stopped. I had a friend shoot one in the head with a 9mm hollow point and it still did the death dance. So blowing their brains completely apart the body still moves after death.

As I posted earlier I hit one in the banana. Iit was a crappy shot but it only made it 10 ft. Must have nicked something vital by luck.

 

[stanginthe11s]

As I posted earlier I hit one in the banana. Iit was a crappy shot but it only made it 10 ft. Must have nicked something vital by luck.

must have been a male

 

[wolfdog]

this is simple. Just like in the old trapping days. Stun it with an axe handle and place a low power shot from a pumper, 3 strokes, through the
eye socket or ear canal into the brain.
The raccoon will do the death dance for a few minutes and expire. An exit wound is unlikely and the skull will remain intact.

happy hunting
Doc

Did the same for years

 

[Animalcub7907]

Head shots do
The trick

 

[Emu]

I took one once with a heart shot with a .30 Cal. I had to give it a head finalizing shot.

 

[olegj29]

Messed with my chickens one too many times. We lost 3 chickens. That's was enough. 2 got caught in a led trap, rest stayed near them in a tree. Bulldog .357 made easy work of all 5.

 

[BlackICE]

Looks like you got the whole family. Those young ones will never have a chance to procreate

 

[Emu]

Funny unwanted creatures .....

 

[Csbrown5]

All I have only shoot them at 15 yards but at 40 you could take them down with a head shot

 

[Csbrown5]

Took this one out last night

 

[Sicumj]

Any of the guns you mentioned will kill a coon with a body shot. I killed many with a Benjamin 312 at 8 pumps. I generally shoot larger game like a coon in the head but body shots will kill it. I have shot a few in the neck with OK results but lung heart shots are better IMO.

 

[Csbrown5]

Messed with my chickens one too many times. We lost 3 chickens. That's was enough. 2 got caught in a led trap, rest stayed near them in a tree. Bulldog .357 made easy work of all 5.

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They are eating our koi fish

 

[Ezana4CE]

Had one take 10 rounds of 44.8 grain hybrids out of a 30 cal last night before getting finished with an arView attachment 346820

@Wordplay341 10 shots with a .30? Where were you aiming and hitting? Which gun were using? Which scope and at what range were you shooting from?