Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Well, it's the feral cats or the fauna.

I shoot feral cats every chance I get at our play farm (1/4 section), some of them get really big. So far the .22 lr, .17 HMR, .260, .44 mag all make them dead.

Seems like the best way do get rid of cats is with a pair of good dogs.

Slumlord,

You are one funny guy. Must be because I have much the same twisted sense of humor.

W. Bill

My grandson and his buds call them "Roof Rabbits" and are hell on them when they are pheasant hunting.

Cats < super calibri

They do exit at 25 yards and often the cat will run off...your property

silent

Guy shooting 180gr. Woodleigh bullet ??
I'd think a 17hornet/remington or 204 would work great .

Just got home from my hunting lease - killed three crows w/a 22-250 , - i just love a 22-250 - bet it would disamntle a feral cat .

The weirdos making death threats because of someone killing a feral cat - they need their head punched 2-3 times REALLY HARD ...

If a cat is outside...it’s feral

You oughta see what a 22-250 HP does to one of the quail killing off black ones.

Yep.

Hahaha. 5 mm pellet took one by the back yard bird feeder. It made it over the fence and into the middle of the street before falling and flopping a bit.

Folks walking their dogs with the kids that evening were nonpulsed.

That big cat hunt was 5 years ago.

Post of the year!!!!

I laughed, I cried.......

nonpulsed? No heart at all, eh?

One will do well enough if there's trees around. and an owner with a 12 ga. Though my old male has learned the big toms deserve some respect.....

Where I now live, shooting them is out of the question. Too many prying eyes. There was a big yellow tom that I got tired of chasing off the property, so I bought a box trap at Tractor Supply, a cheaply made Havahart copy. Caught him in it, and I was carrying the trap to the Jeep for a one-way ride to the river, when that cat repeatedly slammed himself against the trap door so hard that he actually bent it enough to be able to squeeze out and escape! He did stay away for awhile.

2 dogs are harder to escape.

My dogs have zero problems with any feral cats.

I have been killing cats all my life. I hate the damn things.

Jaguartx: Over the last 5 (five) decades I have shot more than my share of "field lions" (feral cats).
For some reason in the last coupla years I have slowed the rate at which I decide to eliminate these marauders.
I must be getting old.
Formerly my "rule of thumb" was "no collar - no live"!
I would guess I have put down around a hundred, over those decades of "eliminating" these un-natural predators.
Thus probably saving 10,000 song birds, game birds and rabbits.
Indeed they are THE problem but humans share much of the blame for the harm they do!
Since moving to Montana 23 (twenty three) years ago I have witnessed 3 (three) mass dumpings of unwanted kitten litters. Two near my rural home and one actually in the middle of town near me.
Folks simply drive to a spot, open the trunks of their cars, get the cardboard box out, open it up and tilt out the unwanted kitten litters to fend for themselves!
I have a recently taken picture on my new smart phone of a beautiful Red Fox chasing a big black feral cat into and through my neighbors Juniper Tams!
Sadly the feral cat eluded the Fox - for the time being.
I have seen Fox, Coyotes and birds of prey catching, killing and eating feral cats - but still they abound?
Some ranchers/farmers abide these "field lions" because they do keep down the mice and Ground Squirrels somewhat.
I still say - "no caller, no worth".
Keep after'em guys.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Ditch Tigers .

Cats have always been shoot on sight around here. But a few years back we got a couple female kittens for the barn. When they got old enough this big black Tom started showing up. I spared him, mostly cause I wanted some kittens. He was coming around for over a year before he finally let me pet him.

He still comes and goes as he pleases, and I'll miss him when he doesn't anymore.