Thread: New Zealand Panthers

Some food for thought to You blokes out there.. the Feral Cat is obviously NZs largest predator and You guys have quite a few iconic Birds out in the bush...
worth the watch for the hunter conservationists

Shooting Cats - National Conversation Piece - Sporting Shooter

Video is down the bottom of the page-

Cheers

Cats are my favourite NZ big game species (I think I’ve said this before...) 😀

Cougers

got big ones in Penrith Sydney.
apparently

Remember a article written by an Aussie hunter about the "panther" he sited while hunting in the Kaimanawa's. Think it was when you could get Bundaberg rum cheap on the flight over.

Must've been the same guy that saw the ones in the Penrith area

I was hunting way out in North Canterbury on a particular occasion sleeping under a fly sheet, You know when you get that strange feeling you are being watched? I was glassing a clearing from my camp, turned to look out the end of the fly, and there about 15m away standing in the scrub staring at me is a giant feral cat, brownish-tan colour. It was massive, I could clearly see it was obviously a normal feral cat, I'm not going to try and pretend it was anything other. But it was easily twice the size of an average house cat. Once it realised I had seen it, it turned and took off.

Yes I enjoyed it when there were regular sightings of the Panther in the Canterbury backcountry. I extended the panther's range by recording his sighting in various hut books in the Lewis Pass area.