Coon is Good with hot pepper and other spices :D
Catch'em and Dispatch them, and if you are Close to West TN, I have a place that will recycle them.
Good Luck on the Trapping !
Not Chicken !
Kind of Like Goat or Venison is about the closest I could relate it to. Which I Like both of those... The Key is cleaning them correctly.
Give the Father In Law the Honor to instruct you, start with the 22 and get comfortable then work you way up to other guns.. You can then look at the option of taking a class for hand gun carry..
Have Fun !!
Opossums will kill chickens also.