quarterbored
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Funny how much speculation there is without much actual experience.
I've killed over a dozen coons with my Sheridan .20 cal running the cylendrical pellets... all of them went down and didn't make it out of the dumpster they were scrounging. All of them were shot at 12 yards... from my upstairs window down into a dumpster... and all were either head or solid shoulder shots. My roomate also killed two with his .177 cal. Gamo from the same window... with the same result.
Get a quality heavy pellet like a Beeman Kodiak or Crow Magnum... look for a good head shot inside about 15 yards... and it'll be curtains for that coon. I would watch out for local projectile laws though... sometimes there can be pretty stiff penalties for violations.
I've killed over a dozen coons with my Sheridan .20 cal running the cylendrical pellets... all of them went down and didn't make it out of the dumpster they were scrounging. All of them were shot at 12 yards... from my upstairs window down into a dumpster... and all were either head or solid shoulder shots. My roomate also killed two with his .177 cal. Gamo from the same window... with the same result.
Get a quality heavy pellet like a Beeman Kodiak or Crow Magnum... look for a good head shot inside about 15 yards... and it'll be curtains for that coon. I would watch out for local projectile laws though... sometimes there can be pretty stiff penalties for violations.