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06-04-2016, 21:34 #11
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07-04-2016, 09:14 #12
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Re: what shot size for wild cats/jackal?
I once worked on a citrus farm in KZN. The locals neighboring the farm were loosing some goat kids to predation. In most cases only the insides were eaten. I was lucky to have seen all the suspected predictors, leopard, caracal, jackal and serval. One old timer suggested it was cheetah but I suspect a case of mistaken identification. In the end it was found to be an old male baboon.
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07-04-2016, 12:57 #13
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Re: what shot size for wild cats/jackal?
very interesting post Dberger
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07-04-2016, 19:02 #14
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08-04-2016, 12:20 #15
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Re: what shot size for wild cats/jackal?
In the case of the OP, caracal would be suspect number one, for me anyways. Using a shotgun could be tricky on a elusive cat. Seeing them in the area is one thing, try hunting them; different ball game altogether. Use the shot size that patterns best in your gun. Add some common sense, only you know the exact situation.
P.S. Please post some pics if at all possible. Might help somebody, (me), learn a bit more.
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25-05-2016, 15:52 #16
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Re: what shot size for wild cats/jackal?
The perpetrators have finally been dealt with after ages it turned out to be a pair of very large White Tailed mongeese, they were going for the weakest lambs at the edges of the camp.
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25-05-2016, 16:21 #17
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25-05-2016, 16:36 #18
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Re: what shot size for wild cats/jackal?
I started doing regular rounds at night as well as putting a guard in with the sheep, the guard saw the mongeese on a couple of evenings chasing them off lambs which they had killed but I had no luck catching up with them, One evening about 3 weeks ago while driving up a road next to where we kraal our flock at night I picked the pair up with a spot light as they got into the camp and approached the sheep. Some ssg and then as they say the rest is history. Unfortunately for the guard he had fallen asleep in the shed next door and awoke to what he assumed was world war 3 which had a most interesting affect on his athletic abilities as he managed to perform some fairly impressive acrobatic maneuvers over fences etc.
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25-05-2016, 16:46 #19
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14-02-2017, 14:25 #20
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Re: what shot size for wild cats/jackal?
Very nice... Had friends with the same issue.
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