Actually, all that does is free up territory for more coons to breed and invade the area.
Coons are not colony animals.
Each one has a specific territory which it will defend.
They may put up with each other at a “feeding station”, i.e., your trash can but they do it begrudgingly.
The only time I’ve *ever* seen more than one coon at a time was a mother with babies.
There’s also the possibility that shooting them in the head ‘at close range’ could spray their brain tissue/saliva into your eyes, nose, mouth or an open cut.
Bad luck if they happen to be a rabies carrier.
Somebody I know wound up dragging a trapped live coon to the SPCA because he got too close to it and it hissed and the spit went in his eye.
Luckily, the coon wasn’t rabid.
***Actually, all that does is free up territory for more coons to breed and invade the area.****
Germany is being over run by coons thanks to Herman Goering and his import of the beasts. they are known there as ...Washenbears.