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<blockquote data-quote="sh00ter" data-source="post: 3974583" data-attributes="member: 24531"><p>A magnum 177 with a heavier pellet you are using will penetrate their skull and shoot flatter than a 22 for that matter. But most 177 guns are not up to the task and people will be using light weight pellets in them. Doing it with the specific gun and pellet you are using works fine for your skill level. But for a kid, I would not even let him shoot a coon with a pellet gun until he could prove he was a good enough shot for a 1-shot dispatch and was old enough. At that point, he would be using a 22 or a 25 if he were my grandson and was going to make coon hunting a regular occurrence.</p><p></p><p>But I agree in your capable hands with coons who are trapped, then what you do would work. I am actually a fan of 177 and of pumpers, so it is hard for me to argue for the larger guns. I just wanted to give the guy the best advice I could since it was a kid's safety at hand LOL...doubt he's trapping them. My buddy traps them and uses the 22 CB's and still has to use more than one shot sometimes. I feed them so maybe I am a sucker with a soft heart, but my german shepherd put an end to that experiment (poor coon).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sh00ter, post: 3974583, member: 24531"] A magnum 177 with a heavier pellet you are using will penetrate their skull and shoot flatter than a 22 for that matter. But most 177 guns are not up to the task and people will be using light weight pellets in them. Doing it with the specific gun and pellet you are using works fine for your skill level. But for a kid, I would not even let him shoot a coon with a pellet gun until he could prove he was a good enough shot for a 1-shot dispatch and was old enough. At that point, he would be using a 22 or a 25 if he were my grandson and was going to make coon hunting a regular occurrence. But I agree in your capable hands with coons who are trapped, then what you do would work. I am actually a fan of 177 and of pumpers, so it is hard for me to argue for the larger guns. I just wanted to give the guy the best advice I could since it was a kid's safety at hand LOL...doubt he's trapping them. My buddy traps them and uses the 22 CB's and still has to use more than one shot sometimes. I feed them so maybe I am a sucker with a soft heart, but my german shepherd put an end to that experiment (poor coon). [/QUOTE]
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