“I just want something that will drop a racoon on the top of my garbage cans without waking the neighbors. Is there something that isnt a toy out there for 3-400?”
For that purpose I would get one of the new pellet rifles.
For less than $150 you can get a 22 cal break-barrel gas piston rifle that doesn’t make that much noise and will drop coon sized game in their tracks. As a bonus $20 will get you enough ammo for 500 shots!
During WWII our place was registered as a farm and we could buy .22 shorts which we kids used to shoot squirrels and rabbits for the table. They didn’t make much noise. I had a friend in grad school that said he shot a wild monkey in Coconut Grove with a .22 silenced with a cardboard tube.