Cat gun?

[mec]

Puddy tats of that type were long considered harmless to adult humans. Now that the California joggers have invaded their territory, it becomes evident that they have developed quite a taste for spandex.

The 30-30 should be idea. For something so sedate on paper, those rn soft points blow a hugh hole through light game. The Cats tend to circle quite a bit when they respond to a dying rabbit call. We got one within 30-50 feet one night before he figured out he had been fooled. He was not a bit happy. Starting this loud rumbling growl and kept it up as he stalked away into the distance.

Not to worry too much about the balance of nature. That situation seldom exists on commercial hunting operations.

 

[Art Eatman]

Hobie, folks can be spooked by what they don't understand. Cougars, most folks know little about.

And it IS a bit spooky when one follows you along--out of curiosity, I guess. You hear some occasional soft sound behind you, but you don't see anything. So, you turn around and walk back twenty or thirty feet, and see the grass springing back up in a BIG paddy-paw track.

Makes goose-bumps...

Art

 

[Gordon]

"Predators like that prey only on the sick and weak prey animals"




Tell that to the BIG 6 point I came across last month! It was killed not more than a few hours before and all the good cuts and guts were stripped. The head was perfectly intact, and I cut it off in front of witnesses. The Warden /biologist we talked to the next day related as how the bucks in the area are being decimated by the protected lions. Seems a doe pursued by lion bolts at top speed,where as a buck in rut turns momentarily to face the threat
and that lag time is just enough
Now IF it is a lion the 30-30 is wonderful with nice light 150 grain bullets. I used a 25-35 with 120 grain bullets on a ranch 30 years ago to keep the lions in check

 

[sturmruger]

Even to this day when I am out in the woods here in WI I always carry a sidearm or a rifle. I have heard to many stories of cats following people around the woods. People say they get bored and want to see what you are doing.

 

[belton-deer-hunter]

i may be the only one but i would like to see some pics on this hunt after it is done and all i an say is +1 for the marlin i have seen them take alot of stuff and keep goninbg and many animals of all sizes have died in the past years everything from rabbits to humans so one more cat is no big deal

 

[Art Eatman]

Watch the behavior pattern of bucks and does/yearlings.

Does/yearlings hang out in groups, and somebody's always watching out in various directions. Safety in groups. Bucks tend to be mostly solitary. They're more vulnerable to ambush.

So, cougars have more chance for success on bucks.

A hunter killed a pretty nice buck near here, some years back. Nine-point, 125 pounds, field-dressed. He walked up to it and saw big patches of bald hide, back near the flanks. He at first thought it was a disseased deer--until he saw the claw marks. The liion had hit rather far back, and missed the throat hold. From the looks of the marks, it had happened within the previous few days.

But, the buck had been driven into the ground hard enough that the gum bone had broken and the lower teeth were flopping loose. The buck would have starved to death...

Art

 

[JShirley]

As for edibility, Craig Boddington says the flesh of all the big cats is good for eating...

 

[Horsesense]

If an animal is interfering with human safety OR livelihood then it needs killing! Rosa Parks understood that reasonable people don’t obey stooped laws and I hope you do.
I would like to suggest that animals go extinct for good reasons and it is folly to interfere with nature, by protecting and or reintroducing some species.

Would you favor the reintroducing of the woolly mammoth or saber-tooth tiger? I didn’t think so. In Kentucky, back in the early eighties, they reintroduced the otter…. Today the otter population is exploding and we will soon be having trouble with fish becoming endangered. It seemed like a good idea at the time and someone had to put that glorious collage education to work, so they used tax money to introduce a time bomb.


Shoot Shovel and Shut up

 

[rlltdjpr]

I have a friend who hunts near Demopolis, and he and his father claim to have seen a panther--they are pretty believeable people, I don't think they made it up. By the way, what county are you hunting that thing in?

 

[TexAg]

Would you favor the reintroducing of the woolly mammoth or saber-tooth tiger?

If I could eventaully hunt them? YES!

 

[ScreamnEagle]

why do all of you say .30-.30......I don't believe in over kill; but i do blieve in over gun.....a 22-250 or .243 will have all the power you need. Killed many Bobcats with my usual 22-250 with 52 gr. Sierra HPBT with H380. YOu guys must not do much cat or yote hunting...never seen anyone bait out a cat or yote, call them up.

Cats usually hunt at night so unless you spotlight him you may have a hard time sighting him, try going out just befor dark or at first light. IF, you do use a 30-30..NOT HE BEST GUN FOR THE JOB...., use 30-30 accelorators*

thats just my 2 cents

 

[WHITEY338]

Although I don't personally know of any bobcat that has killed a deer, it is possible I guess. If it's killing deer then I would go loaded for cougar, and the 30-30 would do just fine. We used to use them almost exclusively when we ran them with dogs. The other rifle we used was the old Ruger Deerfield 44 mag. carbine produced in the 60's I think. But that was at treed distance, so take the 30-30 maybe call from a tree stand or use a remote caller. If it is a cougar then you need to take precautions as such.

 

[SJPrice]

All I want for Christmas

Would you favor the reintroducing of the woolly mammoth or saber-tooth tiger?

Dear Santa,

I have been a good boy and my list for this year is:

1. 470 Nitro Express H&H Double Rifle
2. New walkin freezer
3. New trophy room added to my house
4. Saber-tooth tiger "predator call"