"Desert Eagle 1, Crazy Raccoon 0,"

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desert eagle is a bit much for a coon aint it?

Apparently not in Iowa.:D
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well they do get a bit on the large side out here...course they are only getting so fat because they are eating all of our cat food so its the 12ga for them!

ps. i have learned on two occasions now that a .40s&w jhp to the back of the head will also do the job very well!:evil:
 
a raccoon WITHOUT mental disorders is an extreme hazard. they are territorial, hungry, and outright mean.
not to mention they are quite tasty in a sauce piquante.
i shoot 'em.
i eat 'em.
pretty sure he didn't coin the phrase "desert eagle".
if that's what was handy then good on him for using it effectively.
end of story.
 
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/l...tacked-by-pack-of/wBTNqA0bw0uRdL3EPtT9Zw.cspx

LAKELAND, FL -- A 74-year-old woman is recovering after she was attacked by a pack of raccoons, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

Gretchen Whitted suffered severe injuries after five raccoons attacked her outside her home at around 5:30 pm Saturday night.

According to deputies, Whitted heard a noise outside her house and saw the animals in her back yard. When she opened her front door to shoo them away, the raccoons began to bite and scratch her legs. As she fell, they continued to attack.

A neighbor heard her cries and rushed to her, and three of the raccoons ran into a drainage ditch, the Sheriff's Office said.

Paramedics arrived and took Whitted to Lakeland Regional Medical Center where she remains in stable condition. She received dozens of staples and sutures.
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So soon we forget... October was the pack-raccoon-attack in Florida


They know no fear. I've had single ones approach me while getting firewood in the dead of night in my bathrobe.
 
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PETA makes it sound like a raccoon is your friend. This wasn't the neighbor's dog that got out of the yard, it was a wild animal.
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Yes, but these people get all their information about wildlife through Disney cartoons like "Bambi." They probably think this racoon could talk and had a friend skunk called "Flower." Maybe they think it was the racoon that danced with "Snow White."

Personally, I think PETA should mind their own gosh-dang business. I am pretty sure I would have dispatched the creature on general principle, but I could understand how someone could not feel the need to kill it. But IMO, it's nobody else's business what a man does to the racoon in their own house.
 
I don't understand the idea of shooting a critter inside the house. Huge mess, damage to the house.
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As mentioned, he didnt shoot the coon in the house, but...

As someone who has dealt with a wild animal in the house, and in retrospect, regrets chasing it out of the house rather than shooting it, I'm going to add a word to your post...

I don't understand the idea of not shooting a critter inside the house. Huge mess, damage to the house.

Calling animal control is certainly more humane for all parties, including the well being of the house.
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HA! I once called about a copperhead that was in some railroad ties on the property line, when I lived in the suburbs. They told me to call an exterminator. If they weren't too worried about a venomous snake in the 'burbs, I dont think they're gonna care about an overgrown rat in the sticks.
 
BTW in February or March pregnant raccoons kick their kits from the year before out of their nest, to make room for the new babies that are coming. Sometime the kits have a little trouble before they find their way in the big world. I’ve seen this 3 times; a kit curled up on the sidewalk and crying, one trying to get into a storage shed, and one on my fire escape looking through my kitchen window while I was eating. In each case they pulled themselves together in a few days and went off seek their fortune.

You will now be returned to your regularly scheduled firearm related posts...
 
Let the hippies cuddle up with the next 'coon that they can find. I would pay good money to watch those shenanigans.

Racoon-1

Terrified, scratched and clawed, rapidly fleeing hippy-0

Oh yeah......... good times.
 
"It doesn't give you comfort in your representatives when a member of Congress finds it amusing to boast of shooting a desperately cold animal who is 100 times smaller than he is and whose only misstep was trying to get into a large, warm house,"
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Desperately cold? Oh my, what did these poor creatures do before humans built houses for them to invade. And how did they eat before trash cans? The poor, poor animal.

And on the 100 times smaller bit.......the raccons out here range from cat size (~10 pounds) to quite large, in the 30 pound range. It seems that PETA has no idea exactly what they're trying to protect.

It's misstep up to that point was entry; Raccoons are horribly destructive animals. Had he not shot it, I suspect his house would have been an absolute mess and smaller pets could have been killed. Not to mention how frequently raccoons carry rabies.

God, I hate PETA.
 
When did kiling a raccoon become news worthy? He'll I should be in the news a half hundred times a year or so. I demand CNN send a news crew right over!
 
Shoot um with what you got

I had one in the house several years ago. In the excitement the dog got to him first. That fight went 15 rounds and ended in a split decision and cost several hundred dollars to get the dog repaired.

I would rather have shot the critter and cleaned up the mess.
 
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As mentioned, he didnt shoot the coon in the house, but...

As someone who has dealt with a wild animal in the house, and in retrospect, regrets chasing it out of the house rather than shooting it, I'm going to add a word to your post...

I don't understand the idea of not shooting a critter inside the house. Huge mess, damage to the house.
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A small animal may run around scared, maybe pee, knock stuff over. Maybe it will charge and attack. Am I going to try to shoot a charging racoon? If only I were that skilled. Or do you think a shotgun is the right tool for indoor pest extermination?

A bullet, whether it misses or not, will hit other things, penetrate them, and go on to hit more stuff. Even a .22LR will do that. Drywall, framing, siding, furniture, electronics, wood flooring, other people. I'm not following the idea that any of that is better than the small amount of damage a small creature will do.

If the animal is hostile and/or destructive, and inside, and one wants to kill it, seems like the better tool for the job would be an object with which to bludgeon. Improvise a trap or just go toe to toe with a baseball bat, but shooting inside at a really fast, tiny target? Crazy.
 
Not knocking on PETA or anything... but they seem to just be out looking to pick "fights" with politicians... remember when they were all over Obama because he killed a FLY! ... oh yeah.... a damn fly, of all things!
 
If the animal is hostile and/or destructive, and inside, and one wants to kill it, seems like the better tool for the job would be an object with which to bludgeon.
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Noted...

I didnt mean for my post to sound like I advocated chasing the coon down with lead flying, however, if it ends up sitting in a corner with a "now what" look on its face, I'd probably take advantage of that before the havoc started over again...
 
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Not knocking on PETA or anything... but they seem to just be out looking to pick "fights" with politicians... remember when they were all over Obama because he killed a FLY! ... oh yeah.... a damn fly, of all things!
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To say they were "all over" him is quite a stretch.

Here's what they say about the incident.

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Well, I guess it can't be said that President Obama wouldn't hurt a fly. The commander in chief was recently pestered by a fly during an interview. He swatted at the insect and killed the little guy instantly.

Believe it or not, we've actually been contacted by multiple media outlets wanting to know PETA's official response to the executive insect execution.

In a nutshell, our position is this: He isn't the Buddha, he's a human being, and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act.

If all this has you wondering how you can be a bigger person (figuratively, as well as literally) in your dealings with exoskeletal beings, check out our handy-dandy bug catcher—one of which we are sending to President Obama for future insect incidents. I can tell you from personal experience that it sure came in handy the other day, when one of my cats was chasing the World's Largest Palmetto Bug around the house.
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Obama and the Fly said:
Because we've heard from so many people who want to know more about PETA's position on "Flygate," we've decided to explore the question of "to bee or not to bee" in a bit more depth.

As we all know, human beings often don't think before they act. We don't condemn President Obama for acting on instinct. When the media began contacting us in droves for a statement, we obliged, simply by saying that the president isn't the Buddha and shouldn't be expected to do everything right—if not for that, we would not have brought it up. It's the media who are making a big deal about the fly swat—not PETA. However, we took the opportunity, when asked, to point out that we do offer lots of ways in which to control insects of all kinds without harming them, including the humane bug catcher we sent President Obama. There is even a chapter in PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk's book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights about how to rid your home of "uninvited guests."

We have lots of other items on our agenda, as you can imagine, and PETA's focus will remain on our core issues—promoting alternatives to eating animals, opposing fur and products made from animal skin, opposing laboratories that torment animals, and fighting the abuse of animals in circus training camps as well as other overt abuses that fall within our mission statement, which states that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.

We support compassion for all animals, even the most curious, smallest, and least sympathetic ones. We hope that everyone will take inspiration from Nobel Peace Prize–winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who believed that even insects were deserving of compassion and who would stop to move a worm from hot pavement to cool earth. Aware of the problems and responsibilities that go along with an expanded ethical code, Schweitzer said that we each must "live daily from judgment to judgment, deciding each case as it arises, as wisely and mercifully as we can."

We can't stop all suffering, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't stop any. Our wish is for all people to act wisely and mercifully toward animals.
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So yes, they disapprove, but for the most part, the controversy appears to be a result of news outlets pestering them to get a juicy reaction.
 
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Also, animal control in my capitol city couldn't be bothered to respond to numerous complaints about a large, probably hundred to hundred ten pound, unleashed, extremely aggressive dog, who honestly thinks they would even attempt to get out to someones house in a blizzard?

And I laughed at feeding PETA members bacon and eggs, but I know where I want to take shelter in a blizzard now.

Definitely a Baby Eagle, they have 'Desert Eagle' on their slides I believe, funny how the one paper said he 'dubbed it Desert Eagle', when he was just using the manufacturers own terminology for the pistol.

To hell with accurate reporting I guess.
 
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