Use a nail gun to kill a raccoon-definetly a "non-sporting" use of a nail gun-someone would have to hold the coon down so you could shoot it with the nail gun.Strange story-don't know if I beleive it.Sadly I have hit a few racoons with my car on the way to work.Those crazy things jump right in front of you at night and you can't stop or swerve to aviod them.On one occasion I hit a raccoon,its body was by the side of the road.The next day--someone skinned the coon and left its rather nude body by the road.At night as I am going to work raccoons and possums can be frequent car victims.also the possums and raccoons eat about the same things.They are really out on warm rainy summer-spring nights when the frogs are out too.Both love the frogs.sadly they don't always dine on their frogs on the side of the street after catching them.