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Vince Site Admin
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Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:33 am Post subject: Huge feral cat |
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Huge feral cats wreaking havoc in Arnhem Land
Rangers at the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area in the NT have taken pictures of enormous feral cats, which researchers say are responsible for a decline in native mammals along northern Australia.
Read more: Huge Feral Cats in Northern Territory
I love hunting these wily cats. They are extremely hard to hunt, and when they run, they are incredibly fast and pretty much impossible to shoot. Best way to hunt them is with traps or a spotlight at night.
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Elvis Super Member
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Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 3:03 am Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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only one good feral cat.....
a dead one, unless Im on hot deer sign or approaching a hot area, any cat I see while out armed get a one way trip to the big dirt box in the sky. and yes I have used and no the .270 is not over kill for one of these destructive killing machines.
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Pumpkinslinger Super Member
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Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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Wow! Very big cat! Do you use calls for that? I want to try calling in feral cats and see what my .22 Hornet will do.
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Elvis Super Member
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Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:52 pm Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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a rabbit squeal MAY work???? here kitty kitty kitty sometimes good on freshly dumped animals, so does a saucer of milk down the driveway and the .12ga.
seriously I dont know of any way to call them in or bait them without having time to get them in the habit of coming to one place to feed.
we have shot quite a few while out rabbiting with dogs the cats being flushed out of the scrub along with rabbits. I have seen a feral cat climb out from under a pack of 16 rabbiting dogs 3 times before they nailed it. they are one tough customer when cornered.
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Aloysius Super Member
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:09 am Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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Pumpkin, try to call like a smoked fish...
I've never tried to call them, but when you use some (remainings of) smoked fish as bait, I'm sure of succes.
Also some chicken bones and left-over are great in a trap, so they should also perform well as bait.
And I've heart something can be done with valerian, but I don't know if they mean the plant, the roots or the oil (or the chemical like valeric acid etc.)
Be carefull when you want to use valeric acid because its smell is about the same as butyric acid and you can be sure your wife/girlfriend is not going to like it (and 3 showers don't help!)
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PaulS Super Member
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:20 pm Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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Most any small animal distress call should work-at least to get them close.
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Vince Site Admin
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radar Super Member
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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 1:28 pm Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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I used to tip them over with the 12G when out hunting rabbits with my old dog, he'd flush them but wouldnt chase after one latched onto his face and tried to rearrange it. He learnt a painful lesson that day. Even with a close up barrel of full choke #5s cats were notoriously hard to kill.
Never tried anything bigger, the .22 wasn't all that great because as Vince says they move like greased lightening.
But man those moggies are huge.
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gelandangan Super Member
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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:36 pm Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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I shot one 7 times back when SA rifles are still allowed..
I am pretty sure I hit it many times on the chest and head/neck area.. to the last one, a texas heart shot
somehow the 22lr bullets does not find vital spot on it and it kept on running..
Damn them cat is hard to kill
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Vince Site Admin
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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:59 pm Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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I've seen guys shoot them with .22 rimfire, .22 magmun, .223 Rem, .243 Rem, .32 pistol and 12g and none of them guaranteed a clean kill unless it was a head shot...which is nigh on impossible unless the cats sit long enough to take a bead. Biggest problem is the buggers seem to have a 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th sense and they seem to know when the are targeted. They hunker down and do that million mile an hour crouching run and unless you are close enough to have a shot with a 12g, you will only get them with a very lucky shot.
A feral cat is an extremely wily adversary which why they are so challenging and so much fun to hunt.
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Elvis Super Member
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 2:41 am Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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3 shots .22 magnum =3 dead feral cats. the 12ga even better.
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MacD Super Member
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:06 am Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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We don't have a feral cat problem here although a few exist near cabin areas. Not legal to shoot them. My Baikal in 22 mag/20 gauge would make a nice pest gun.
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MacD Super Member
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:17 am Post subject: Re: Huge feral cat |
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Wow that is a lot of killing power. When I used to feed the birds in my backysrd, before SWMBO saw a rat below the feeders, I used to pop cats that hung around with a paintball gun. I figured I saved a few birds and taught the irresponsible owners a bit of a lesson. Cats are insatiable bird killers. 18 million have to be doing a lot of damage.
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