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sleek:
I dont have a problem with cats, just when they jump up on my car and scratch my paint, eat the dog food that's spilled around the dog bowl, have litters under my barn, and drive my dogs barking mad.

So, there is a feral cat that I would otherwise actually welcome as a barn cat, but for all the above reasons. Would a bunny blunt be effective at dispatching the cat, or should I just get my lead thrower? I'd just rather not see the mess a .44 mag will make of it, and I dont want to risk a slow death by a broad head not perfectly placed. I'm hoping if I miss vitals with a blunt, the cat would survive, heal, and stay away, but if I nail it right, I can collect a dead critter for the vultures.

Hawkdancer:
Feral cats is bad news!  1/2 a .44 is .22, very accurate, and less mess - same result!  Dispatch asap! I'm not the world's greatest cat lover by any means, so I may be a bit negatively biased!
Hawkdancer

sleek:

--- Quote from: Hawkdancer on August 08, 2019, 10:49:38 pm ---Feral cats is bad news!  1/2 a .44 is .22, very accurate, and less mess - same result!  Dispatch asap! I'm not the world's greatest cat lover by any means, so I may be a bit negatively biased!
Hawkdancer

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I wish I had my .22 with me, but it's being held for me by a friend. That's why I'm considering a bow with a blunt.

Eric Krewson:
I had a huge feral tom cat using my deck furniture as a bed every night, he was a fighter and often left blood and pus on the cushions, I decided he had to go.

I blocked off the stairs with bird netting and only left a small place on one side to slip through, I set a snare in this hole. the first night he pushed the snare out of the way so I pinned it open with a couple of toothpicks. The next night I caught him.

He was hanging off the porch with the snare around his middle and as mad as a snared bobcat. My neighbor had accused me of harming her cats which would wander off and them come back a few days later so I didn't want to shoot the cat with a 22. If I shot and one of her cats disappeared she would be sure I had done in one of her pets. The cat I caught wasn't one of hers.

I decided to dispatch the cat with a very powerful pellet gun. I shot the cat a dozen times through the boiler room before it died, the 9 lives thing is real. I could shoot through the cat and hear my pellet go through the leaves in the woods behind it, head shots bounced off. Even after all the shots this cat was doing his best to get at me, he was about 3ft long stretched out.

I wouldn't use a blunt on your problematical cat, you will just p$$ it off.

sleek:

--- Quote from: Eric Krewson on August 09, 2019, 07:39:09 am ---I had a huge feral tom cat using my deck furniture as a bed every night, he was a fighter and often left blood and pus on the cushions, I decided he had to go.

I blocked off the stairs with bird netting and only left a small place on one side to slip through, I set a snare in this hole. the first night he pushed the snare out of the way so I pinned it open with a couple of toothpicks. The next night I caught him.

He was hanging off the porch with the snare around his middle and as mad as a snared bobcat. My neighbor had accused me of harming her cats which would wander off and them come back a few days later so I didn't want to shoot the cat with a 22. If I shot and one of her cats disappeared she would be sure I had done in one of her pets. The cat I caught wasn't one of hers.

I decided to dispatch the cat with a very powerful pellet gun. I shot the cat a dozen times through the boiler room before it died, the 9 lives thing is real. I could shoot through the cat and hear my pellet go through the leaves in the woods behind it, head shots bounced off. Even after all the shots this cat was doing his best to get at me, he was about 3ft long stretched out.

I wouldn't use a blunt on your problematical cat, you will just p$$ it off.

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Thanks for the warning Eric. I dont savor the idea at all of going through that pellet gun scenario. I'm sorry you had to do that. I think I will figure out some other way.

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