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Shooting wild cats.

  • 18-11-2006 11:04am
    #1
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭


    Would you guys recommend sub-sonic .22's?


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  • #2
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    Before this degenerates into a shouting match with the denizens of the Animals & Pet Issues forum
    (see this thread-
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=51839095
    ...and this one-
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054972171),
    here's my take on it-

    From the purely mechanical aspect of the humane dispatch of cats, anything that will do the job on rabbits will work admirably on cats too.
    Unless you particularly need the 'quite' properties of the subsonic ammunition, I'd be advising the use of good quality high velocity hollow-point/expanding ammunition. Cats have a well earned reputation for having 9 lives, so the use of subsonics will require precise shot placement (head, spine, heart/lungs) to ensure a clean kill.
    If you're confident of your ability to place the bullet in the correct place, subs are plenty effective, there's just less of a margin of error than with the harder hitting stuff.


  • #3
    macnas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭macnas


    How about a mink trap, even quieter than sub sonics:D .


  • #4
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Rovi wrote:
    Before this degenerates into a shouting match with the denizens of the Animals & Pet Issues forum
    (see this thread-
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=51839095
    ...and this one-
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054972171),
    here's my take on it-

    From the purely mechanical aspect of the humane dispatch of cats, anything that will do the job on rabbits will work admirably on cats too.
    Unless you particularly need the 'quite' properties of the subsonic ammunition, I'd be advising the use of good quality high velocity hollow-point/expanding ammunition. Cats have a well earned reputation for having 9 lives, so the use of subsonics will require precise shot placement (head, spine, heart/lungs) to ensure a clean kill.
    If you're confident of your ability to place the bullet in the correct place, subs are plenty effective, there's just less of a margin of error than with the harder hitting stuff.

    Thanks for the reply, and it answer's my question. So I'd prefer no shouting match either.

    As for sub-sonic's. I just prefer their use thats all, nothing more nothing less.


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