i suggest you wait to shoot a coon until it gets cold........... there fur won' t stay together it will just fall out.......... Wait till it snows or gets real cold for a few weeks so they have had a chance to grow their winter coats and there prime. But i took want to shoot a coon with my bow............ People hear shoot them with there feild points???????? is that bad i have never done it so i dunno if they die soon or what.....