*Disclaimer... Feral cats are considered "PREDATORY INVASIVE SPECIE" in Florida and can be controlled with any legal methods by the land owner.
Yesterday, Junior was puttin' my bike away in the barn after using it and spotted this thing up on/in a few mattresses on top of a 7 or 8 foot tall chicken cage in the dieing barn.
He come and told me. He has stitches on a finger so he wanted me to bring my 20 gauge.
I put some 7 1/2 in it and loaded one round of .22 in the savage for junior if it needed a humane kill shot.
Well it spooked out towards my direction but jumpin' straight to the floor... I leveled as close as I could and got her square in the front shoulder/neck from 12-15 feet. She was 2 1/2-3 feet from the floor when I shot.
The shot pattern hit the tin wall right beyond the cat between a baseball and softball size circle... NO PENETRATION
This girl was at least TWICE as heavy as I expected a medium size cat be. Been eatin' REAL GOOD!!!
We need to maintain a squirrel population as junior's snake could use one per week. They been real scarce for months and I blamed it on a neighbor kid i seen shootin' for a couple days before I spoke to him.
Maybe they will rebound quick. I got corn with molasses and peanut butter all over the property.
Brent
Yesterday, Junior was puttin' my bike away in the barn after using it and spotted this thing up on/in a few mattresses on top of a 7 or 8 foot tall chicken cage in the dieing barn.
He come and told me. He has stitches on a finger so he wanted me to bring my 20 gauge.
I put some 7 1/2 in it and loaded one round of .22 in the savage for junior if it needed a humane kill shot.
Well it spooked out towards my direction but jumpin' straight to the floor... I leveled as close as I could and got her square in the front shoulder/neck from 12-15 feet. She was 2 1/2-3 feet from the floor when I shot.
The shot pattern hit the tin wall right beyond the cat between a baseball and softball size circle... NO PENETRATION
This girl was at least TWICE as heavy as I expected a medium size cat be. Been eatin' REAL GOOD!!!
We need to maintain a squirrel population as junior's snake could use one per week. They been real scarce for months and I blamed it on a neighbor kid i seen shootin' for a couple days before I spoke to him.
Maybe they will rebound quick. I got corn with molasses and peanut butter all over the property.
Brent