Think we all put together loads we would like to test on flesh and blood now and again. This is especially true when you are trying to put together a "pelt friendly" coyote or fox load.

I would urge you to not forget the blessing that is roadkill. I find a medium to large Coon carcass to be a wonderful testing medium. Just hang the little dickens in a tree, and pace yourself back a likely distance - and let'er fly.

Make sure you have a backstop...

Oh......I don't know.....I like to shoot paper
Let the wildlife live to run free within means

Swen49- the definition of road kill is; an animal on the road, that has been killed. It can no longer run free. shooting these animals is, well, recycling.

Arty......Yup, guess your right. Did not think of it that way!

Can we still cook it when we're done?

Arty, I swear, you can't make me laugh that hard at work, I could get in trouble if the boss caught me having fun, even on my break.

Red

We were having troubles with a neighborhood dog marking his territory around our house. The owner of the dog gave my father some .22 LR shot shells to use on the dog. My father didn't like the idea of using them so he bought a pellet gun. Not knowing how many pumps to use, he decided to run a science experiment. He came home one day with a road kill cat in the trunk of the car. I can vividly remember him shooting that cat using different numbers of pumps until he found out how many would not let the pellet penetrate the skin. We used that gun with the appropriate number of pumps to educate the dog to stay out of our yard. That was my first exposure to load testing and development. I don't remember what he did with the cat when he finished.

a cats usfull life is twenty seconds. they are useless before the crosshairs land on them, and they are most certainly useless after that.

HHMMM,
Sam,if you shot it you are expected to eat it no excuses.
SnapDragon; If your dad was as smart as he sounds he likely sold it to a Chinese Restraunt and Sams folks bought it from them in a slightly different form. My turn,ROFL derF

"The cat's in the kettle
at the Peking Moon
and Garfield's on my fork."

If you don't eat it, it's a waste of ammo.

some things you just don't eat- I kill woodchucks on the neghbors property, but that is controlling a pest, and I won't eat it. same with problem racoons.

Any more,I would'nt touch a racoon with a 10 foot pole.Chucks are good in a crock pot bbq.At least you know what they've been eating,and,a 10% brine solution and "spices"[salt]have'nt been added.

Sam; I liked your reply.lol derF

I had one for a pet like the one in the picture! He was a great pet, then he got fat and mean!

I shouldn't admit it, but when I was much younger, I and 2 friends came upon a very bloated horse carcass in the National Forest where we used to go shoot our Colt SAA 45's. The three of us stood back about 15 feet and drew our revolvers and started firing away like old west gunfighters. We weren't far enough back and had to make a hasty retreat! After the horse decomposed, we recovered our bullets.

I shot a coon so close once, I got sprayed by "juices". eeeeeew.

Dead Cats!!!
They make the best bear bait ever, put em in a glass jug with the lid on, keep em the sun all winter till they turn to liquid. In the spring pour the liquid around your stand and run! Bears will come for miles.

i expect you would need a strong stomach and nostrils glued together for that concoction

how the hell do you discover that?

When I was hunting bear in Canada a few years ago, the guide showed us his "secret" bait. he hung a beaver in an old refrigerator that had not worked in some time. He said when the beaver fell off, it was just right for bait.