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!
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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!
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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 [emoji23][emoji23]
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Looks like a damn fine cat to me kukawai - no matter how heavy he was:chop:
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Originally Posted by Russian 22.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by 6x47
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.
For you farmy types if you pick up a 20liter of drench or whatever that will be very close to 20kg, simarlly a 10 liter bucket of something (paint perhaps?) that will be close to 10kg.
Just to help those weight guesstimates ;)
If that cat weighs 15 kg then those rabbits in the photo are at least 12 kg half the size of a lamb, if that was the case the farmers would be happy to farm rabbits instead of sheep :roll:
good yarn there @viper
Here’s a 200lb goat I shot yesterday...
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Nah. Stop it. Sorry fellas. Anyway back to exterminating pesties, its been a shithouse day so far up in the Ruapehu dustrict but the sun’s just come out and tomorrow and Tuesday look like they might behave themselves, so it’ll be hard out on the goats, last chance before lambing. They’re lower now, little groups of them in 4s and 5s tucked away in the gullies. Got four yesterday with the trusty .243 on a shortish walk down the bottom of the spurs, if the weather still looks ok tomorrow night I’ll fly camp up on the bushline and lug my varmint contour Creedmoor 6.5 up the hill for a bit of longer range action. It’s a walk an unfit overweight middle aged bloke only wants to do once every now and then, with that 13½lb rifle and an overnighter pack. But its bloody worth the pain, the Creedmoor rifle and scope are really dialled in now and clean bowls goats from afar.
Right that's it....WAR......I am now going to buy scales to carry with me........ Your guys fault , I got to explain now to the wife the scales are for weighing any big Pussy I score.
If it ends in divorce I am will be coming to stay.:thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by viper
To the doubters, the non believers and all those that fucked with my story...................shame on you fuckers..... 15 - 20 kg Pffffffffttt
This is a REAL picture cause it was on the internet so it must be true.
Ohhhhh , check your scales are in Kilo's,........ohhhhh good yarn Viper................ohhhh your optimistic................
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I just got the feral moggey posing with the big calibre:D
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Either that's a big bullet Dundee or one hell of a small pussy ;)
22mm
why would any of you jokers not let a little bit of Sttttttttretch truth ruin a good yarn
One coon from the cliff top.
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Its a big bullet and the feral moggey is growing everyday.Quote:
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I guess stretching the truth an inch or 2 is acceptable but 1 or 2 km's is just a tad too far :huh: Still it's good to read it all the same, at least someones getting out there doing it so good on you @viperQuote:
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Lets play spot the dead goat in this picture, 1970s “Spot the Ball” style. You can draw circles around them and post it off for a crap prize if you like. Clue: there are four.
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Lots of fun taking down the goaty pestulence. Took all day to find them and a helluva lot of up the hill, down the hill, up the damned hill, back down... again... and again.... but found them in the end.
Soooo many deer around, not interested in deer this time round though, can’t even fit a loaf of bread in the freezer at the moment. They ain’t going anywhere...
After the first salvo, the rest of the mob popped out of the native at a tad over 500m, took two of them out at 530 and 540m with the Creedmoor, always satisfying especially with a bit of wind about.
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Still some more to remove, will be after them tomorrow with the .243, a bit of closer-in action I think, now I know where they are.
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Got big doe in the trap I won in last years swamp comp,gotta be worth a box of beer.
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The box of beer would look more valuable than that "carefully maintained" rifle.. :P
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$5 for the carcuss from the pet food fellas
Shit VC thats $15
Surely you must be able to get two boxes of waikato for that [emoji3][emoji23]
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Ah....Maybe Im a bit out of touch....I used to get around 12-15 possums per kilo but only plucked basically the outside as the buyer didnt want any tail or belly hair at that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by kukuwai
You would only get Waikato for that. :P
Basically Bush fur buyers pay $20 a green skin but I plucked the big bugger and are slowly fulling up a sack.$120kg now I must borrow @vipers scales cause I think mine are out.:D
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Dropped this heavy-duty buck roo with the .17 while cleaning up rabbits last night.
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Of the one in my profile pic? Second cousin, now removed. :thumbsup:Quote:
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Caught a rear breed of the feathered variety of the marsupial Australasian invasion today.
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Gday you mob, haven’t posted much for a couple of years, been busting a few crows lately trying to keep them off this years lambs.
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Brno601 in 22-250ai 50gn zmax at 3800fps
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Just a few, various ranges from under 100 yds to 380 odd, they give a very satisfying WOP
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Been tossing out skins and entrails from rabbits for a couple days and the bait station is now self sufficient curtesy of my 223 ackley mounted on the deck ~150 yards away. Vmax 53s spreading some white love on the hill.
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~35m with .17HMR and Thermal scope. Probably prouder of this than I should be..
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Had this mollie show up today.
Bit tricky when armed with only a hammer !
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Went out for a wander on Sunday and knocked over a wallaby. Took a friend who is from the UK out on his first wallaby hunt. He gave one a couple of sporting warning shots from the 223 before it decided to vacate. He was then kind enough to spot another roo hanging about under a tree despite the warning shots. Thanks to the suppressor this wallaby hung about long enough for me to connect. It was a fair ways off so I was very chuffed to connect.
Big thanks to @gadgetman for the use of some gear and to @mickyduck for the great advice. The bastard hill hasn't got any smaller but I think my fitness has improved :)
Already looking forward to a return trip with my own rifle!
Had a bloody good Monday afternoon after having no work after mid morning. 11 shot, ten collected.
Trying for headshots after not really using a rifle in over a year isn't a good idea. Got some cracking good shots, but too many rabbits survived that day.
Hawk helped itself to one of my rabbits. Paunched, skinned, diced and salted, this lot is destined to be stoat bait for tunnel traps at the local kiwi reserve.
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Mrs MB said she wanted us to spend more time together. I said come hunting with me then and she said yes! We didn't have much time, so we went out to get a turkey and that's what we did.
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on the subject of Rabbits hit by fast stepping bullets @Feather or Shoot . . . while not as explosive as the 22/250 in your pic, with the .204R i have often seen the skins splitting down along the back bone with no exit wound. i suspect the outer skin can not stretch enough as the body expands from the violent expansion of the bulet.Quote:
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