Thread: New Zealands big Cats

Iv caught a tom cat so large and fat that he had to inch his way cm by cm into one of my box traps, getting him out after he had run outta life was a very tight squeeze

aparently that pan fried snapper was just a little too tempting,
and he came from the back of my 205 acre property backing onto a landcorp station.
im yet to see in person any domestic that comes close, but he was definitly from domestic bloodlines. Black typical cat looking with a normal head, Fat as and bigger than average body. very well fed on my phesants and quail me thinks

we do get a constant supply of dropoffs here tho.

also a ocelot costs close to or over a thousand dollares.
anyone with one wouldnt let it get away surely.

Oh boy feral cats are great sport for shooting. IMO any cats are... Mongrel damn things. Did a week on rabbits on a station in Otago 10 years ago and it was a huge buzz when a cat would pop up in the middle of some rocks while we were pinging rabbits. There'd be a shout of "CAT" and all the .22's would swing on to it and a hail of lead would be sent it's way. Whoever pinged it earned breakfast in bed from the other shooters in the shearers quarters next morning. Similarly, odd coloured rabbits were worth bonuses too, a black one would get you a rum and coke brought to you by the others at days end, and a ginger one earned you a brandy-dry! We shot 4 cats and 1200 rabbits in 4 days between three of us, after the virus had gone through.

Ray.

Originally Posted by Beavis

There is/was a very large feral moggy living around the Landcorp block to the south of Mt. Tauhara in Taupo.

PM sent - either I know you or I know your neighbours. Taupo raised myself. They reckon this cat was the size of a small lab

Been those sightings down South too, which sounded interesting

Got a mate in Pest Destruction who I hunt with .

He's said for years that the back country is riddled with bloody moggies ...

I didnt believe him until I saw the cat shit .. and then several cats on molesworth last year.




Tim

when I first got my firearms licence at the age of 16 I was staying on a friend of the famlies farm I shot 32 wild cats over a 3 week stay that included leaning on the boundry fence and shooting them on the place next door as well as well

Originally Posted by Bill999

also a ocelot costs close to or over a thousand dollares.
anyone with one wouldnt let it get away surely.

They were released 100? yrs ago
Ill be seeing them in a few weeks and get the full story

it really is all bullshit till someone puts a bullet in one and posts the photo.
Ocelot

it seems tho that most seen are black and large rather than the ocelot pattern

smoke one spanners. you can do it

I think its kinda cool theres been a few recent sightings

Big Cat Sightings in New Zealand

Mine was not black was more Ocelot/tan in colour

Station Keeper was in the paper in 2003 with a 7kg one he had shot

Ill find out what and when they were released

Forum Ocelot hunt

So who is going to be the first to take a full body mount puma/leopard out into central otago to really get this thread moving

Now days its the mancoon cat that is all the rage.
They grow quite big,
My wife got a half bread one.
At 9kg when he sunk claws in you new about it.
Found this pic of a mancoon, They also come in moggy colours

Originally Posted by Bill999

it really is all bullshit till someone puts a bullet in one and posts the photo. Ocelotit seems tho that most seen are black and large rather than the ocelot pattern smoke one spanners. you can do it

Not dismissing the ocelot ! But have a theory on large black cats . I used to do a lot of pig hunting , most pigs where gey in colour ,andOne out of Ten would be black . When we got multiple pigs the black pigs always appeared bigger , even too an experienced eye . When the pigs where put side by side the black pigs where no bigger just looked bigger . In open country black sticks out like dogs balls and they appear bigger . Anyone else experience this