Raccoons in the suburbs
Hey Everyone! This is my first post so please bear with me.
I moved to the Seattle area from Wisconsin a few years ago and have/had a large garden in both places. Since I was in the country my 22 rimfire handled all the pests, but now that I’m in the burbs I don’t have that luxury anymore. I bought a .177 Gamo Whisper for taking down the small pests but I now have raccoons moving in (plus the Whisper isn’t really that quiet, I usually shoot it from inside the house out a window or a door to help muffle it. My fault for assuming “whisper” meant quiet.) I don’t really like shooting at coons with the .177 – I’d rather be humane and take them down cleanly.
In my searching I found Pyramydair with their great Loudness rating. Looking at the .25s I was dismayed by how loud they all were, and was steering towards the Logun S-16X due to it’s silence. While I would prefer the additional take down power of a .25, the silence factor is more important. The visual similarities of the Logun and the AirForce rifles kept me accidentally clicking on them which eventually brought me to a blog about how to quiet them, which eventually brought me here. Phew!
So, my question is two fold. First would a Condor/Talon be an ideal choice for taking down some big raccoons? (Reading this site for a bit, the answer seems to be YES, but I was wondering if anyone has any differing views.) And second, what upgrades or packages should I be looking at? I’ve seen mentions of people making .25 conversions for the Condor. Can you still shroud these? Would I also need the rifle tuned to make it completely quiet? Approximate costs for these add-ons would be great too!
Neil
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Condor is great for coons.
.25 caliber is an easy switch, about 200 bucks for the barrel. It can be shrouded, and with a good shroud, made dead silent. Lots of power with that too. Shroud price depends on you. If you get a super duper one (quietest) it can run about 200 bucks. For a frame extender and some home made baffles (quiet, but not as much as the other option) it’ll be under 100 bucks easy.
Here’s mine with a coon. .25 condor that a great, amazing, awesome friend made for me. 🙂
Also, a lot of guys have a talon SS, and they take coons fine. So that would work too.
What range are you looking at shooting at?
Oh, and welcome to the forum!
Dont know that I’m the best person to be answering your post first due to the fact that I’m a newb myself. But I’ve been doing no stop reading since I picked up my SS and it sounds to me like Talontunes.com is the answer to all your questions.
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Shrpshotr28 does good work too by all accounts(and what i’ve seen) Give him a PM first….