When you grow food to put up for the winter, and corn is work intensive in the north, needs to be started in a greenhouse, heavy feeder and organic gardening is pricey, and the fact that they can wipe out over half of it at night, yes, in fact I have shot racoons. They also kill chickens and ducks. They are lazy thieves, prefer to live off of someone else by stealing, and I have yet to kill a skinny one. Killing my hens and ducks is a capital offense around here and the sentence is death