Kel-Tec P3AT failure

[Chui]

No one, not even a coon, apparently, would compare a P3AT to an instant death ray...

 

[Hellbilly5000]

Still trying to figure out how this is a failure of a gun.

 

[DAVE RICHHARDS]

You shot and hit the animal. It stopped what it was doing and left. How's is that a failure? If you wanted to kill it put more holes in it. Racoons are tough son of a guns. And can be quite bold. I've ran into my share of them hiking and camping. Thought I was going to have to shoot one once. We had our food secured high up in a tree. We were in bear country. Middle of th night we heard a hugh commotion. I thought oh no a bear. Grabed my Glock 30 and a flashlight to check. It was a racoon. The light and some hollering got it to leave. If I have to shoot an animal I expect with a pistol to have to shoot it several times. If one does the job great. If not shoot as necesary.

 

[txstang84]

If one does the job great. If not shoot as necesary.

great line...

 

[Microgunner]

I'll trade you a hammer for the 3at, mabey your friend will have better luck.

What! Are you nuts? That P3AT is worth at least 3 hammers. And I mean NICE hammers too.

 

[Hellbilly5000]

Last racoon I had to shoot took 1 round from a 40 S&W carbine to kill.
Let me tell you a 40 will put a nice big hole the backside of a racoons head

 

[B.N.Real]

Head shot = insta dead.

Stop trying to plant bullets to grow guns and you will kill the critter first time next time.

 

[mega twin]

My gp100 failed to stop a charging armadillo with four rounds of remington 125 grain jhp,
Maybe if I had hit it, the story would have had a different ending,
good thing it was charging away from me

 

[michael t]

2 gut shots at point blank range

Gun didn't fail .Ammo didn't fail . Shooter failed shot placement . Head shot coon be DRT for sure. Even people gut shot run off most time. I had to shoot a dog that been hit by a car last summer .Were out in country I used a KT 380 and Corbon 1 shot in head over.

 

[curt.45]

friend of mine emptied a 38 into a raccoon with out putting it down, shot placement and ammo, but then again head shots to a raccoon ain't easy.

 

[Doug260]

A pistol will never again be my first choice to shoot a varmint. I found this out last year when I tried to kill a woodchuck that was tearing up my wife's garden. I had to empty my S&W revolver loaded with .38sp swc to get him to stop kicking. I hit him every time, too. The last shot was in the top of the head. That did it. I am not at all proud of that episode. After that I found that a 20ga shotgun with #6 shot at 25' does the trick every time. Critters are tough and anything less than a headshot usually won't put them down quickly. Shot placement is more important that what gun you are using. Even a lowly .22 LR will put down a big animal with proper shot placement to the head. It is always the Indian, not the arrow.

 

[AK103K]

Maybe you gotta taze them first so they stay still while you try and shoot them.

Just a thought, but practice on little balloons blowing around the yard might be better practice than those bullseye targets at the range.

 

[troy_mclure]

as a long time coon hunter a well placed . 22cb in the the reflection of his eye will put him down fine.

however i saw one shot with a 1oz slug once from 15'. it pretty much ripped out all the guts, it drug its self about 40' before it died.