How about a modified potato gun for "relocation"? You could call it a Yowlitzer. Use half a spud as a sabot or an "undercat" wad. Feral cats aren't a big problem here, too many fishers around, but "outside" domestic cats really do a number on the birds and amphibians, and most hunters will kill them as they will dogs running loose in the woods. It's amazing how many coyotes wear collars....

At what angle, and charge weight could they launched into the catmospheir?

Ok guys, hows this for some lateral thinking. I have recently become aware of the us pumpkin throwin sport 'Punkin Chunkin' These guys have air cannons that can shoot a good sized punkin over 4000 meters. Now, use the punkin as a discarding sabot for kitty and let er rip!
Alternatively you could use the centrifugal 'throwers' to launch puss but I prefer the cannons. Maybe you could use the local cat shelter as a drop zone?


In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
Beware the sound of Banjo pickin'
(with apologies to Mac Maclintock)

Actually I think I'm doing my job properly disposing of ferals and "bad" cats. I really started this thread for the fellows out trying to bag a few bunnies of a couple of pheasant who run into a feral way far away from where a cat should be. Particularly those without a connection to the farm or ranch and thus practical experience.

D99 you crack me up!

This has to be one of the funniest posts I've read in a while!

NS Sherlock

There are a group of folks in the south easter corner of the state that call themselves the Sunset Beach Cat Society they love to trap and nuter feral cats. I call them the Target of Oportunity Provision Corportaion.

Have you ever seen what a muzzy broad head does to a cat when shot from end to end?

Killed one around christmas on the farm, a big black and white one. I should have taken it to the scales, biggest domestic cat I've ever seen. Caught it crossing a field at about 125yrds. My step dad said "Wow, I've never seen anything die that fast". 22-250 does pretty work.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by DigitalDan:
IIRC NS has the technology to take 'em to the other side of town and deliver them home air mail...par avion as it were.

Dan--the truest answer of all, is to give them half a chopper ride--one takeoff, but the crat is responsible for its own landing.

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Originally posted by budiceale:
the serious answer is that all feral cats should be shot on sight. when i was a kid my grandparents had a semi wild cat that lived in the barn. they said that she kept the mice and rats under control. one day i crawled back into where she was raising a new litter and found her "nest". it was about 2 feet in diameter and 2 inches thick with quail feathers. no sign of mice or rats by the way. even the bunny huggers need to know that feral cats kill thousands(maybe millions??) of song birds every year. just shoot em!!....bud

The Royal Audubon society (in England)
conducts census of bird populations
They consider the most reliable data they get to be the data they list under the heading of "BIBC".

"BIBC" is provided by cat owners who take the "presents" their cat leaves on the porch
bag them in a sandwich bag and freeze them until the society picks them up.
these birds can then be CAREFULY examined and their species identified without question.

BIBC is obviously an acronym:
Brought
In
By
Cat

for those who couldn't figuire it out on their own

20-odd years ago my mother was looking with some interest at that morning's deposit from our cat and asked me "what kind of bird is that?", I looked and said "I can't say".

She asked; "Because you don't know?".

I replied; "No, I know the common name of the species, though under the circumstances that name seems inappropriate."

She asked; "Ok, what species WAS it?"

I replied "a Swift." (Which obviously was an inappropriate name considering the cat had caught it

My current cat is a rabbit specialist.
He is quite good at it.
It is what I TRAINED him to do.
He does it silently and relentlessly and all through the night.
and I actually get to eat my own Romaine lettuce
instead of the Rabbits eating it all.

AllanD

When we moved out here 4 years ago there were wild gats ecerywhere, The old guy who owned this place didn't know about "pet control" if you get my drift. There were 9-10 extra cats running around and the stench that goes with them. Yes I think cats can and should be concidered varmints. 22-250's and .223's work well on feral cats.

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Originally posted by zaitsev:
Ok guys, hows this for some lateral thinking. I have recently become aware of the us pumpkin throwin sport 'Punkin Chunkin' These guys have air cannons that can shoot a good sized punkin over 4000 meters. Now, use the punkin as a discarding sabot for kitty and let er rip!
Alternatively you could use the centrifugal 'throwers' to launch puss but I prefer the cannons. Maybe you could use the local cat shelter as a drop zone?

but will the cat land on it's feet?

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Originally posted by dustoffer:
Dan--the truest answer of all, is to give them
half a chopper ride--one takeoff, but the crat is
responsible for its own landing.

Yes, but the REAL question is will the cat land on it's feet?

I'm willing to bet that if dropped from sufficient height a cat has time to "relax"
about falling and will only suffer minor injuries.

I seem to recall hearing that a cat falling from a 3rd to 5th story window onto concrete usually died.
But that cats falling from 6th story windows or higher usually survived... and the difference was that the cat had time to relax into it's freefall position and prepare for proper landing form...


I'm also willing to bet that you will need major medical attention by trying to release a cat from a helicopter.
If past experience is any guide cats are usually freaked out by fans and a helicopter is a big one....

Don't get me wrong, I have A cat, I like cats, but I've had
to eliminate a few... Mostly semiwild cats that wanted to be fed but wouldn't allow themselves to be touched.
Cats that absolutely didn't belong to anyone.

For those cats a good lead based spray is best, I like 22,
any std velocity 22LR ammo from my old Winchester 67A
is as quiet as if I had a supressor...

AllanD

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I do not hold with Texas heart shots taken with muzzy broadheads on cats. It stenchifies the arrow as a rule and the crat often escapes to stenchify the neighborhood. Broadside shots however, usually pin the cat down so that the plump tasty portions can be salvaged for Maryland Style Kitten Soup, or at least a good crat Ragu. Ohioans may wish to make a fine pickled crat loaf as a regional favorite in such a case as long as the small shot is carefully removed in preparation.

You just tore me all up there Ned,,Was born and raised in OH.,,Now reside in MD. Clay

I've seen a few cats flip up in the air I'd bet close to five feet with head shots.

Much more flip than prairie dogs do. Reckon it's because their springs are wound tighter.

I know a guy in Idaho that gut shoots 'em so they'll go home to die and not on his place.
I've got them scared of me, when I head for the door they take off. But, sent a few away with lead holes.

Do intend to get a lot more of e'm cause they shit in my dirt floored shop and made a nest in my cabin cruiser in the shop. Talk about stink and bad feelings!!

Just think I really do like cats. There's a limit and these have long ago crossed that point.

George

Why all the precations to protect free running dogs? Are they any less harmful to wildlife?

Whut precautions you talkin' about makeminestainless man? I got a diversity loving 223. N.S.

There's a program here where feral cats are captured, neutered, then released back into the wild. So what if they can't reproduce they still keep on killing for several years afterwards. Personally I like cats, I've always had them since I was a kid but mine are all "fixed" and stay in the house 99% of the daylight time, and always indoors at night. Feral cats are always open season as far as i'm concerned.

7mm Rem Mag, 150gr Nosler Ballistic Tip, the ultimate pasture puss, errr..cat splat round!

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7mm Rem Mag, 150gr Nosler Ballistic Tip, the ultimate pasture puss, errr..cat splat round

Hey BlackHawk1 that rig sounds great for cats, lets hope they never bring in bounties on feral cats, cause there wont be enough left of em, to collect on, after you have misted them.

Here down under in OZ feral cats have no limitations whats so ever,(Oh except when there is a mouse plague) and to those jerks doing the old nacker job on em, how about they consider the bacteria Toxoplasmosis that cats spread via coming in contact with their faeces. This disease harms humans and animals by causing them to naturally abort foetuses. In some cases up to 40% of lambs are lost to this disease before they are born. So the nature lovers can tell it to some one else, its open season as far as I am concerned.
When we go spotlighting we dont dare miss a cat cause you wont live it down for the rest of the trip.

I used to use 22 rf. with sub sonics around the house. I had one hit get away, I don't want someones cat making it home with a hole in it.

Bought a Have A Heart trap. I just drop the cat and trap into a galvanized tub full of water and have a coffee, then put'm in the garbage.

It amazes me how many strays I have around here. I seldom see cats when Chuck hunting, maybe there Coyote food in the fields.