they will work fine.....headshots on coon will be important if you wanna put them down....ive shot ALOT of coons...a 22 and a headshot is all it takes...but you put them anywhere else and if they come down they will be very much alive...or they can and will climb and move and get into dens and such....when im running the hounds i take the headshot every time...if its impossible to get a head shot, i crack them in the hind end and get another shell in and crack them in the head when they look or start moving...works every time and rarely does the hind end shot bring them outta the tree so i dont gotta worry about the hounds getting torn up