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Anonymous
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This is clearly coming from someone who doesn't hunt, and probably has never shot a rifle (or shotgun) before. Yeah, the big bad human with the high-tech weapons--let me tell you something. Sure, if you actually hit the cat in the right spot with the rifle (or the squirrel with the shotgun), you're going to kill it--no doubt about that. But despite what hollwood movies you've seen, actually hitting them is a different story altogether.
First off, that looks like a Burris scope, which are cheap junk. I doubt he paid $100 for that scope, let alone five hundred. Also note the cheap injection-molded plastic stock. That rifle is far from being a precision shooting tool.
But more importantly, truly feral cats are hard to shoot even with a sub-MOA rifle. They are extremely skittish--even the slightest noise will spook them. We had one mangey old tom at our farm that was constantly getting into the chicken coop. This cat was so wary of humans that if he so much as saw a human, even from 100+ yards, he'd take off like a bat out of hell. I set up at night about 40 yards out in an old hay shed, and the little bastard could hear me turning the safety off of the rifle, despite that distance. He did this three times, before on the 4th night I kept my rifle ready, loaded and with the safety OFF.
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