A very good measure of the trophy cat is the satisfaction of the total event from the discovery of the Tsavo cats (or porch panthers, or ranch cougars) to the hunt, the kill, the telling.

I simply go by distance, I.E. how far the cat flies before returning to terra firma. Oh, wait, you were talking about shooting at cats, not shooting with cats? Well then, I have no idea!

Toolmaker

Ah hell......lets just go with the most creative demise of felinicus problematicus
Yer on the right track G. ned