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

I lived on a nice cobblestone street in the Historic Old Northeast part of St Pete, FL replete with 100 yr old bungalows when I was finishing up college. I could walk to Coffee Pot Bayou and fish, net, go crabbing. spear or gig mullet when they were running, you name it. Helped my gf and I with our limited broke-azz college student budget.

My old landlord used to trap the feral cats and run them out to one of my favorite wade-fishing areas, Weedon Island. This, loooong before Weedon Island got built up. Nature took its course out there.

Yeah, after one of the "ferals" got at my gf's white dove through the cage, some of the ferals had collars.

Any "house" cat that's outside is a feral cat!

300 mag for cats?

I live trap the SOB feral (house cats) and then call the pound and they come and get them. If they have a collar they contact the owner and tell them to come and get the cat with the warning that the cat needs to stay indoors. The second time they get them it costs the owner $250.00 for bail. If there is a third time they keep the cat. Coming home tonight there was the neighbor's black cat on top of my bird feeder. Now the pound is closed because of the corona virus. I have caught this same cat twice already, this time his 9 lives are going to expire early.

Shooting loose cats would be a great retirement job. Songbird eatin mutha srekcuf.

That one was a different screw up. Had rabbits and quail coming in the yard in edge of town. Had a yellow Tom after them in the unfenced front yard fairly often. A front bedroom window faced the street and I started keeping it open ia few inches in the evenings.

One evening it had sprinkled and left a bit of water buy the curb on the far side, in front of the across neighbors yard, where it crouched to drink. I grabbed ole 5mm Betsy and lined up to fire. The cat looked up to my right down the street and ran over to my left about 15 yards and bunched up under the neighbor's BMW rear gear housing.

Well, I couldnt see much to the right of where the Tom had been due to a big dense shrub in the front flower garden and up to the right side of my front window.

I was already feeling the excitement of making Mr Tom pay so I put the cross hairs on the bottom of the gear housing to allow for drop and sent lead that said"kapop". Mr Tom squalled dashed out into the middle of my neighbor's yard and started hopping and going crazy as I looked up to see two other neighbors from three houses down suddenly steep into my field of view from the right where my Bush had covered their approach.

The look on the old man and his wifes face was priceless as they looked aghast at me. I'm pretty sure so was mine.

Dumdassed shot there Jaguar.

Are they hiring?

I dunno. .22 w/a can is pretty no fuss.

Saw a black one hop from ground to top of the fence when I took my recyclables out to the can yesterday. He stoped and looked back once to see if I was watching. Yep. I C U.

Headed west.. duly noted.

I don't have a can for my 22's, so I use CB's. They work well enough at short range, especially when delivered Booth/Oswald style.

Good on ya'. Keep up the good work!

Son and I were coyote calling one night when I heard him whisper "turn the light on" as soon as it flashed on he opened up with his 12 ga. I heard a screech then it was over. Big black and white tom cat with a collar on him. We were 2 miles from nearest house. That tom out weighed most bob cats I have killed.

Can't shoot them here, but I can trap them easily enough. Take them to the pound. True ferals get the Big Shot. Pets with collars or chips get their owners a call. The first jail break is $X. The Second is $2X, THird $3X, and so on.

Where I live now a feral must skin an eye for great horned owls, hawks, coyotes, foxes, autos if they beat all them they won't hear what just killed them.

A neighbor called our local animal control officer about the ongoing feral cat problem. He dropped off a Havahart trap and told her to take it to the county animal shelter. Told her he was too busy trapping cats at the local PRIVATELY OWNED motorsports park! The neighbor called the shelter and was told she'd be charged a $60 fee for dropping off a cat! Our tax dollars at work.

I have a friend, to whom I introduced to quality air rifles. He soon had a German RWS model 350. For late evening entertainment, he would visit his friends convenience store where numerous felines would show up to check out food scraps in the dumpster. He ran up some impressive body counts.

Well, they turned the Army out aginst Emu's once too.

Me and my buddies in high school shot the hell out of feral cats, Ditch Tigers we called them. We had a dog that would hunt them down for us, Thor, he found us lots of cats. Gawd, those were some good times!

Interesting, my black lab is named Thor and he hates cats.