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    A great day in central, got up at 7am and grabbed a coffee , threw a few softbais and got a lovely little 3 lb Brown Trout , released.
    Up onto the farm. 22 only , no heavy hitters.
    The hills were moving, just one of those days and I ran out of ammo with 36 shot, big, big healthy rabbits.

    i sat a worked a face, one of the rabbits ended up gut shot nd screaming so sat and watched .
    Sure enough this tiger turned up but cunning as a shit house rat, I pulled total fluke shot, 80 mtrs running between the rocks and bair.............headshot.......couldn't do it again in another 1000 shots.
    For scale that is a full length barrel Norinco with suppressor and the cat is just dumped on the ground and not stretched out.
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    Way to go @viper. Nice shooting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by viper View Post
    A great day in central, got up at 7am and grabbed a coffee , threw a few softbais and got a lovely little 3 lb Brown Trout , released.
    Up onto the farm. 22 only , no heavy hitters.
    The hills were moving, just one of those days and I ran out of ammo with 36 shot, big, big healthy rabbits.

    i sat a worked a face, one of the rabbits ended up gut shot nd screaming so sat and watched .
    Sure enough this tiger turned up but cunning as a shit house rat, I pulled total fluke shot, 80 mtrs running between the rocks and bair.............headshot.......couldn't do it again in another 1000 shots.
    For scale that is a full length barrel Norinco with suppressor and the cat is just dumped on the ground and not stretched out.
    A beast Tom, I am guessing but 15 to 20 kg of bad arse Moggy.Attachment 91584Attachment 91585
    Take the win..


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    I shot 3 of these noisey buggers today.Only two in the photo but I thought my young pup would of done a retrieve.More training needed.Name:  picture 01 1292.jpg
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    I shot 3 of these noisey buggers today.Only two in the photo but I thought my young pup would of done a retrieve.More training needed.Attachment 91863
    That is the best thing to do with fucking Plovers Dundee.
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    Quote Originally Posted by viper View Post
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    A beast Tom, I am guessing but 15 to 20 kg of bad arse Moggy.Attachment 91584Attachment 91585
    Good shooting, great to nail those buggers.

    As for weight, you're a tad optimistic. The biggest breed ( Maine Coon) generally only reaches 12kg.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 6x47 View Post
    Good shooting, great to nail those buggers.

    As for weight, you're a tad optimistic. The biggest breed ( Maine Coon) generally only reaches 12kg.
    That maybe so but heres proof that some wild cats do indeed get bigger than 12kgs !!



    This one didn't have the abundance of rabbits to feast on that viper's one did. So I'm picking its totally possible that it could have cracked the 15kg mark.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rushy View Post
    That is the best thing to do with fucking Plovers Dundee.
    I remember when these were rare.
    My uncle hatched out some when he working on a farm on the Crown Range.
    Would've been in the 70s.
    They are pretty neat for impressing the kids/grandchildren when they have hatched young.
    If you don't take your eyes of the chicks can walk right up to them when they play doggo.
    You can pick them up show them to the kids when you let them go the adults come back and pick them up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 6x47 View Post
    Good shooting, great to nail those buggers.

    As for weight, you're a tad optimistic. The biggest breed ( Maine Coon) generally only reaches 12kg.
    Fuck off I was Optimistic, I picked it up and have a pretty good idea. Hate to point one glaring fault out....................... it's feral not some lap cat out of the cat breeders bible.
    Shit changes in the wild mate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by viper View Post
    Fuck off I was Optimistic, I picked it up and have a pretty good idea. Hate to point one glaring fault out....................... it's feral not some lap cat out of the cat breeders bible.
    Shit changes in the wild mate.
    The Aussie's have some bloody amazing photos of huge feral cats

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    14 lb. Or 6.5kg not 14kg.
    I cant get over how big some of the feral cats have been that I have shot.
    Best thing for them is a bullet!
    Quote Originally Posted by kukuwai View Post
    That maybe so but heres proof that some wild cats do indeed get bigger than 12kgs !!



    This one didn't have the abundance of rabbits to feast on that viper's one did. So I'm picking its totally possible that it could have cracked the 15kg mark.

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    Haha that old chestnut, no wonder all the fish i catch are so big. Can't even read my own scales

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    Looks like a damn fine cat to me kukawai - no matter how heavy he was
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    Quote Originally Posted by Russian 22. View Post
    The Aussie's have some bloody amazing photos of huge feral cats.
    Quote Originally Posted by 6x47 View Post
    The biggest breed ( Maine Coon) generally only reaches 12kg.
    We got involved with feral cat control on the Nullarbor in WA in 2013/14. Was a real eye opener. Reports of super sized cats were frequent from the roadhouse at Cocklebiddy, cats seen at night chewing on the roadkill roos. There was a load of wild dogs as well, but a cat looks totally different to a dog when it runs.

    The largest cat caught on the Plain in that program was 9.3kg, shot by one of the lads after it entered a trapping pen. It was full of small birds. The researchers took a photo of it on a timber board with a centimetre scale. 80cm nose to base of the tail rings a bell. I’m travelling at the moment but when I get home I’ll see if I can find the photo. Sorry Viper, really no offence meant mate but it was a shit load bigger than the one in your photo. The rifle stock gives a good scale. My two Staffords weigh 16kg (bitch) and 19kg (dog) and they are considerably bigger than that cat!

    A large Maine Coon tom is way longer than the one in your photo... even then ones heavier than 10kg are rare, they’re more like 8-9kg, mature males, but there are some these days bred for size that are 12-13kg but this is abnormal.

    There’s been a lot of chatter about the supersized cats in Aus but bugger all in the way of verified evidence. There’s a few photos that have made it into lots of different websites like the Aboriginal bloke with the big ginger cat, but nothing in the way of properly measured stats. Even the Gippsland Big Cat is dodgy and was never properly verified, but it was proven by DNA to be a feral cat and not something more exotic. The Parks & Wildlife people went through quite a bit of proper data with us, very very few of the cats they caught and measured fresh before decomposition weighed more than 7kg, like 1 or 2%. A 10kg cat is exceptional. The experts were of the opinion the 20kg feral cat is a complete myth. 15kg cats in tropical areas with abundant food are considered genetically highly unlikely, the ones in the photos are probably 10-12kg, maybe a little more.

    A 15-20kg feral cat in NZ would be classified as a matter of global biological significance! Far out if I came across a 15kg feral cat in NZ I’d call the AOS.

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