“You don’t shoot raccoons?”
I’m in a suburban neighborhood about a mile outside the Richmond, VA city limits. A few wealthy neighbors have the acreage necessary to discharge firearms. I do not.
Buy a pellet rifle ... not an Airsoft, not a Daisy, but one from PyramydAir — www.pyramydair.com/a/Air_guns/Air_rifles/Spring_piston/Pellet_rifles/375 — and use that. We’re out in the country on an acre and a half, but because of the way the porch and patio is laid out, the only angle that I can use to fire on raccoons and opossums is in the direction of the only house that is nearby. The pellet rifle that I purchased is just the ticket; the lattice and creepers on the patio and the trees surrounding my acreage will bat down any pellets that miss, and the ones that don’t miss kill with one shot.