thanks for all the replies. where i live it's legal to hunt bobcats.
semi-suburban, meaning depending on where i go there might be a house nearby that'll hear the noise and prob call the cops since they're naive to shooting. i live in a relatively small town. we do however have lots of woods, there's a 465 acre WMU place where i hunt. That's where the majority of my hunting goes on, and there are houses kind of nearby, and if i'm going woodchuckin, and pop off a couple of rounds i don't want the people to get annoyed. and since varmint don't have a season where i live, i can hunt woodchuck in the summer, and if there's hikers or mountain bikers anywhere near me, i don't want to be shooting off loud rounds around them, granted they're at a safe distance away. which is the reason i'm leaning towards hornet or fireball. i think a hornet will do everything i want it to out to 200 yards, and it's relatively speaking, quiet. but since i'll be reloading i can tune the fireball way below the hornet levels, or i can hop it up to .223 levels if i wanted. so i'm kind of at a dilemma. which ever i choose i'm sure i'll be happy
