you can tell when .22LR is hard to find

[bigsky]

http://www.break.com/video/100-raccoons-and-one-bag-of-doritos-2549177
they ate those people when they ran out of chips.

[PFactorDave]

Good lord...

I don't think those people realize how nasty a raccoon can be...  They often carry rabies too.

And on 22LR shortage...  I was in a Gander Mountain store not too long ago, they were selling a box of 50 22LR rounds for about $22.  I bought some 7.62x54 for my Nagant for the same price instead...  Ridiculous.

[CAP1]

22lr is still hard to come by around my way. i lucked into about 1500 rounds of hp for cheap. i gotta stick to either  thunderbolts or cci minimags, as that's all that the pistol seems to like.

[smoe]

That is dangerous. Raccoons can be really aggressive if provoked.

[bigsky]

I do not know where this was filmed at but if it was around where I live someone would be shooting them. I just checked a site and quoted average $20 for raccoon furs.

[PFactorDave]

22lr is still hard to come by around my way. i lucked into about 1500 rounds of hp for cheap. i gotta stick to either  thunderbolts or cci minimags, as that's all that the pistol seems to like.

It's nearly impossible to get here, unless you pay some crazy price.

It's a real shame for me.  Before it got scarce, I would shoot twice a week.  At least a 500rd brick of 22LR every week.

Now days, I shoot once a month, simply because it is too expensive.

[CAP1]

It's nearly impossible to get here, unless you pay some crazy price.

It's a real shame for me.  Before it got scarce, I would shoot twice a week.  At least a 500rd brick of 22LR every week.

Now days, I shoot once a month, simply because it is too expensive.

 yea, well the 22lr is mostly for mom, as she's got a walther p22. i have a 10-22, but the range we shoot at i can't shoot that inside, and i ain't goin' out in 30 degree weather to shoot a 10-22. i keep looking, as there's a couple home based ffl's around here that get deals every so often, and they pass them on to us.

[PFactorDave]

yea, well the 22lr is mostly for mom, as she's got a walther p22. i have a 10-22, but the range we shoot at i can't shoot that inside, and i ain't goin' out in 30 degree weather to shoot a 10-22. i keep looking, as there's a couple home based ffl's around here that get deals every so often, and they pass them on to us.

I have a Ruger 22/45 that I like for general plinking.  The grip and layout is similar to a 1911, so I like to shoot a couple hundred rounds through it, then shoot a box of 45ACP through one of my 1911s.

[bigsky]

I always check with this first.
http://www.slickguns.com/

[NatCigg]

I wonder if this is a rest area and the people are feeding the coons. 

Kinda scary how the keep coming out of the woods. 

[Scherf]

Yeah, I was wondering how it was possible to have that many animals, looking that well fed, in such a small area.

Some of those critters are distinctly brown, others distinctly grey. What is that - juvenile/adult, male/female, dirty/clean, trick of the light?

[CAP1]

I have a Ruger 22/45 that I like for general plinking.  The grip and layout is similar to a 1911, so I like to shoot a couple hundred rounds through it, then shoot a box of 45ACP through one of my 1911s.

 i don't personally own a .22 pistol as yet. i am going this week(if the #$%$ snow clears up) to check out 2 .22 1911's by colt. my aunt inherited them. her father maintained his stuff to the point of almost being ocd. i've seen other semi-auto pistols i'd like....but none as much as the 1911.

[HPriller]

Clearly people are feeding the coons.   That sort of behavior from them can only result from being fed in that fashion regularly.  I live in San Francisco, and here were have a similar problem with these things having an out of control population.  But, can't even think about shooting them or otherwise inflicting harm upon them or the law and the animal wackos will come down on you like a ton of bricks.  The problem was so bad last year that our neighbors, who were so sick of having their yard endlessly torn up by these things, paid some company to trap and relocate the things at something like $300-500 each.  This involved a few cheap steel cage traps being placed mainly in my back yard (as they were going through mine to get to theirs).   Over a two-week period they caught around 17 of the damn things before they stopped.  I imagine they got tired of paying the outrageous fee to relocate the things (presumably to the east bay watershed or so the company claimed).  Less than a year later presumably during mating season I shined my flashlight out into my backyard one night to find a veritable raccoon orgy with no less than 4 pairs going at it for hours on end.

But yeah these things are a menace.   I guess on the bright side at least we don't have deer here.  Although, in recent years coyotes, of all things, have found their way into the city by migrating across the golden gate bridge into the city.  Also, I guess the raccoons are getting off easy because apparently their meat tastes bad, so I guess they don't end up in some Korean or Chinese cauldron.  Meanwhile, there's been a lot of neighborhood pet cats and dogs go missing in the last few months. 

[Shifty]

When I was 12 we had a lake house on the Texas side of Lake Texhoma. One afternoon my older brother and I were coming into the cove from fishing. A racoon was swimming across the middle of the cove. I was driving the boat and my older brother said pull over next to the Racoon. My brother was 22 at the time he was a big guy 6' 4" and king of the world he thought. He reached down and grabbed the racoon by the tail and brought it into the boat. Within 10 seconds the Racoon was Captain of the boat and my brother and I were swimming in the cove.  I've never gotten anywhere near  a raccon since. I won't go near any wild animal after that episode.

[NatCigg]

Clearly people are feeding the coons.   That sort of behavior from them can only result from being fed in that fashion regularly.  I live in San Francisco, and here were have a similar problem with these things having an out of control population.  But, can't even think about shooting them or otherwise inflicting harm upon them or the law and the animal wackos will come down on you like a ton of bricks.  The problem was so bad last year that our neighbors, who were so sick of having their yard endlessly torn up by these things, paid some company to trap and relocate the things at something like $300-500 each.  This involved a few cheap steel cage traps being placed mainly in my back yard (as they were going through mine to get to theirs).   Over a two-week period they caught around 17 of the damn things before they stopped.  I imagine they got tired of paying the outrageous fee to relocate the things (presumably to the east bay watershed or so the company claimed).  Less than a year later presumably during mating season I shined my flashlight out into my backyard one night to find a veritable raccoon orgy with no less than 4 pairs going at it for hours on end.

But yeah these things are a menace.   I guess on the bright side at least we don't have deer here.  Although, in recent years coyotes, of all things, have found their way into the city by migrating across the golden gate bridge into the city.  Also, I guess the raccoons are getting off easy because apparently their meat tastes bad, so I guess they don't end up in some Korean or Chinese cauldron.  Meanwhile, there's been a lot of neighborhood pet cats and dogs go missing in the last few months. 

It quite interesting, infuriating at times, that humans have caused this problem of over populated low level predators.  We have eliminated the natural predators (coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, wolves) and allowed the population of coon type animals to explode.  These animals survive unchecked by nature or humans.  There population in turn puts stress on other natural populations they feed on, most notably bird eggs.  Thankfully, mother nature is not dead yet and predators are on the rebound to help control the populations ( ).   Nevertheless, our human interference is much more than nature can handle and humanely blowing the heads off 2/3 of the population is probably our best method of control.