BEST Feral Cat Hunt of My Life! Day and Night with a Vertebrate Pest Controller - Pig & Fox Shooting
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Never have I had a night where I've shot 9 feral cats, but I have now, and it's all on video as my BEST feral cat hunt. This shooting trip we are out hunting invasive species - feral pigs, feral cats and the odd fox. There's plenty of action packed footage in this video in both daylight and after the sun sets with the thermal gear. Things get a little wild and I'm running the bolt pretty hard on my custom 308Win rifle. If you're seeking a video with bulk shooting footage and no bullshit, this is your happy place !!!
Access into this area is with my mates Polaris XP1000 side by side buggy. This machine is purpose built for his contract shooting business and works amazingly well in the terrain type for pest control. Big thanks to him, my unnamed mate "Bucket" for the invite out seeking assistance on this control program.
Critters on the deck and not killing native animals and damaging agriculture is the aim of the game. These uncontrolled animals are an environmental and agricultural menace in Australia and are classed as invasive pest species.
We are not shooting for human consumption, it is purely pest control of invasive species in Australia. These uncontrolled animals are an environmental and agricultural menace, often carrying bacterial and diseases like brucellosis. Pigs are left where they lay as carrion, nothing generally lasts more than a week in the Aussie bush before it's just a few scattered remains.
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My 308Win rifle is a full custom, which I will review soon to share all the details properly. Action is a Defiance Machine Tenacity, Triggertech Special trigger, 18 inch Carbon Six Barrel, 1 in 10 twist, Wedgetail Industries Suppressor, all in an MDT HTN26 Carbon Fibre Chassis. I'm running Fiocchi ammunition with 150 grain Hornady SST projectiles and a sprinkling of subsonic rounds, which are reloads using 190 Sub-X projectiles. My thermal scope is a Pulsar Thermion 2 LRF XG50 and for the scanner I'm a Pulsar Merger LRF XL50 which is 1024x756 resolution !!! Daylight scope, I'm using a Japanese made Zerotech Trace Advanced 4-24x50mm.
If you are interested in a thermal or night vision device in Australia, have a chat with Ben from Hunt the Night. He generally has the best prices anyway in Oz.
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Be even better to have the new 6mm Max in ar15 platform 15 shot mag can ect look at the millions lost in sale's and ammo now if ya had that in the NT YA WOULD HAVE X10 TIMES THAT IN PANTHER KILLS LOL 😂 I FUCKEN WISH. WE ARE MISSING OUT.
Nice rigg you are using. Try Sako hammerhead 180gr. I'm using it on moose. Keep up your good work on slaying these cats and pigs.👍🏻
I know those cats were feral cats. For those people worried about you accidently shooting someone's cherished pet let me say this, any cats roaming around and hunting at night are "fair game". If you care about your pets - you don't let them roam!
Quick calculation ... If those cats lived 2 years you just saved 13,000 native animals. As a tree hugging hippy, top job.
Cheers mate
As a bird watcher all my life , on behalf of the bird keep the fur flying on the feral cats.
Thanks 👍🏻
Proving a point by the comment! Culling is not hunting!
@aleho1 your mad
@@Theforbidden45. why am I mad? Let’s here it?
@@Theforbidden45. just a quick question for you Xander; if you had mice or rats in your home and you could see them running around your kitchen floor at night, would you leave them to run around your house…. Or, would you kill them yourself, or get someone else to kill them, like a ‘pest control’ business. You obviously are intelligent enough to see where I’m going with this… so, your logical, and sensible answer (I’m guessing) is the latter. I am also taking a wild guess here, you would frame it as being humane because of the way you are dispatching the ‘pests’ and avoiding an infestation, which could lead to damage to the home as well as health risks to your family having to live with rats or mice.
As a botanist who focuses on the connects native plants have with native wildlife I just wanna say thank you for having the balls to film and post this. The crazy cat ladies love to pretend TNR works while billions of animals die a year. And like there name implies they are crazy. So they go off on people who do this. You’re extremely based
Thank you, and yes.... they get a little emotive sometimes LOL
@@EDGEoftheOUTBACKdon't they mate😂.
Wow it’s amazing to actually come across a sane person online!! The fact that they really believe TNR works is the most delusional thing ever!! It’s actually sad because the US natural ecosystems and wildlife are suffering cause the crazy cat ladies have convinced the government that cats are meant to be outside and they believe it enough to make laws protecting them. It’s terrible here man!! The amount of dead birds I see in my area everyday is actually disturbing.
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I am from India and I can say that saving the native species is the foremost rule of conservation. Thats what we did and are doing with Bengal Tiger conservation. If any farmers cattle gets taken away by tigers then government pays good compensation to the cattle owner. Hence the farmers don’t try to avenge the loss of their cattle and the tiger roams free.
Yes, but quite a distinction in most intelligentsia's eyes, from how one government cherishish and values a majestic creature like the bengal tiger, whereas Australia has a pest narrative and they are not seen in isolation as the no less majestic dignified felines they are.
and this is why i never let my cat outdoors unless i walk him on a leash, not to avoid the risk of losing him but also avoid him turning into one of these invasive freaks. some people really are just so oblivious to things cats do, i dont care if a cats natural instinct is to hunt, blame the Egyptians for not being able to domesticate them out of the instinct to kill, and like someone once said: the proper boundaries between a cute cuddly pet and a ferocious beast are the walls of your own house.
Well done mate. With just this one generation of nine cats, you have saved over 7000 natives this year.
Bloody good job.
Thanks mate, staggering figures of destruction they are capable of.
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Watching your videos helps motivate me to get out there more!
Taking out pigs and cats et al, makes Johnny a happy boy.
"A little bit too much internal pressure inside his cranium!" Had me belly laughing. Thanks for the vid.
My pleasure!
Me too.
His high pressure relief valve popped.
That pig has bulging eye syndrome! 😁
I've said it before, the quality of the videos is always outstanding. It's like David Attenborough with a .308 :)
😂 My little boy dressed up as DA for book week. Was bloody funny, wig and all.
@@EDGEoftheOUTBACK top marks, he's absolutely at the pinnacle of wildlife documentaries - fine role model :)
That's an idea for a t-shirt and bumper sticker right there! Get on it @EDGEoftheOUTBACK
@@theNikonGuy +1 for sure! Caps & t'shirts please. 😅
😂😂😂😂👍
For every cat you shoot you save scores of our beautiful native animals well done.
9 cats is crazy. Great day out
That it was
the governments of the world need to promote efforts like this
I used to live just outside cooma a few years ago. My record on cats was 72 in a year on my block. 6 in one night. All these ferals breeding up in the 10 odd ks around a town knocking off 10000s of lizards and frogs. After the 2nd and 3rd year of trapping and shooting cats on my place we had little blue tongues and a couple of shiny black shingle backs in the house yard. Also a few more nope ropes haha. Browns mostly. But all the native life started coming back.
Keep at them moggies!
Makes a massive difference eh, nice work 👌
THANK GOD FOR YOU!! to hear that some natives are recovering gives a thrill of hope.Congrats from USA
shit, here in cali, my neighbor decided to let her cats run feral. in 3 months, i had removed 40 on my own, and an extra 10 +/- with the help of my dog. finally after all this time, ive got squirrels and birds in my yard again, as well as a nice healthy dove living in my tree
Loved it! Those cats are a menace
Yes they are!
@@EDGEoftheOUTBACK legend!
Watching this video with my cat sitting on my lap laughing like a Bond villain when those cats got smoked, between them you probably saved a few hundred native animals this year alone.
Lotta cats have watched this one so it seems 😂
9 ferals on one property, that he managed to find, let alone the ones he didn't and the others on the neighbouring properties. That is some potential scary numbers.
To all those who are upset with the shooting of the cats; keep your cats inside and neutered.
That'd be a start
My cats ARE spayed and neutered and they are kept indoors to protect them from vermin that would harm them!
The problem isn't just their breeding habits it's also their eating habits specifically that's destroying our native species, if we're going to take the whole situation seriously we need to get rid of not only feral cats but also the domestic cats entirely to stop the problem at the source so then domestic cats can't have a opportunity to turn feral which is how this whole problem came about in the first place.
Good on you Richie. If everybody kept their cats inside, we would have lots more wild life. Great job.
And less cat shit in our gardens to clean up
I watched this with my cat. He won’t go outside anymore.
I love cats. I have 2 indoor cats of my own. Cats should never be let outside at night. Both owners and cats should registered and neutered. ( just the cats )
What you are doing is a good thing.
Thanks for understanding the situation
I'm a big cat lover, but crikey, in no way can I criticize your efforts at reducing feral animals. You can ignore Reality, but you cannot ignore its effects.
I'm an animal lover, so I say keep your domestic animals under control.
Too much of this great country is being ruined by ferals.
Keep up the great work, Nathan.
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Thank you 👌
I love cats, but these things aren't the cats I love. They are pests and are destroying the environment.
Fantastic video and next level marksmanship as for the cats well what a pleasure for the eyes! appreciate all your hard work thanks 👏👏👏👏
Our pleasure!
sorry but a fixed wepon .. ain´t marksmanship
any on can feel a trigger ... sorry.. but standing
up right with out anything .. shooting 5 out of 5 on the
small 1/5 person on 250m with a 5.56 no scope..
now that´s marksmanship.. .. this is point and shoot
anyon can do that... you dont even need breathing treaning
just aim pull trigger .. not impressed-.. and who the frack shoots cats
when australia has a huge mous problem.. what the fudge.
@@EDGEoftheOUTBACK nice setup .. and yes when you shoot 100 things
the rifel can get a bit heawy.. ill give you that...
but why kill cats when you hawe a mouse pleauge...
trap the cats and release on infected farms..shooting them is .. cand sadly not find a low enough word for that
but meaningless idiotic and along thoes lines.. i shoot standing with out tripod or any support then my self
Perhaps have a google search on feral cats in Australia before you make things look even more ridiculous.....
Seen the comment and brought a smile to my normally stone face thought it came from a crossbreed of Vasily Zaisev and Dr Blowfeld but ignorance is bliss just keep putting rounds in those killers
*Edge of the OUTBACK* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.
Glad you enjoyed it
UA-cam sure hates letting me leave comments this past week!
Dear fellow cat owners; your cats don’t belong outdoors! Its not their ecosystem and it is more problematic for them & everyone else than it is remotely “worth” and make sure to adopt cats if you can, shopping for pets should be avoided if you can.
I don't understand how people get upset with you for trying to help the native flora and fauna.
Great video
Ignorance and emotions seem to dampen a lot of people's brain cells 🤦♂️
They are uneducated and think there are 'better ways'. I would love to hear of these ways and how they suggest to fix the problem. I'm sure a few of them would say to leave it as it is.
They do, or we hit them with environment science and facts. It's at they stage they either vanish or get narky 🤷♂️
@@EDGEoftheOUTBACK can't fight reason with logic with them
Best way I found to prove the point about feral cats to a neighbour I use to live next door to was I shot a video of one of the ferals from a trip showing the stomach contents of it had 6 small parrots in it. The neighbour never gave me grief from that point on.
Mate, you are living the dream! So lucky to come across and take out all those cats - great fun and great for the environment.
Couldn't agree more!
super video,lots of nature saved by putting down those cats and pigs,i dont hate cats but they should not be in the wild
Me neither mate, but they have no place out there.
Hunting feral cats is extremely important to preserve native species that are killed by them and to protect people and animals against diseases transmitted by them including Rabies
Exactly 👌
THANKYOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS! As a LAFO and as someone raised round the bush, i feel soo proud every time i get to introduce someone to your channel, its 100% my favourite on the platform. ULTIMATE PROFESSIONAL!!!
A friends brother lives north of Perth a couple hundred ks (Jurien/Cervantes ) where pigs and cats are causing heaps of strife. I received a pic (and assurance of accurate measurements), of a moggy over 20kg. There's your panther!!! From all of us in youtube/internet land,
Keep up the stirling work!
Ps, I would love to share the pic, but have been asked to not share the shooters ID, ill see what i can do!
Really good to gear you enjoy the vids and well done to your friend who smashed the big cat 🍻
Great stuff as always Nathan.
You must have felt like you won the lottery with all those feral cats you blew away.
Feral pigs and cats, doesn't get any better
I agree, was a great night
Keep up the good work. If only every farm had this quality pest control
Cheers mate 👌
Feral animals are domestic species or subespecies that have become "semi-wild" and that is horrible for any embiroment, they normaly hunt and compit with the endemic or native wild species and it can cause a lot of extintions like it happend on Australia, New Zealand or Hawaii.
It seems likely that the feral cats in Australia are going to increase in size if they are not stopped.
you'd be a tub too,if all you did was murder,maybe eat,and lay up in the shade all day long
Do you harvest the pigs?
Have a squizz in the video description 👍 (save me typing that paragraph again).
Wipe out all of the feral cats you come across. You're doing your country a favor and bringing light to an issue that other countries should take note of so their native wildlife doesn't disappear or become endangered like Australia's has.
Thanks mate
So many f**ken cats! Good job Nathan!
Thanks 👍🏻
The only good cat is a dead cat, good stuff mate
"Cohen" yeah not surprised you're a POS
Those feral cats (these are non-native species, dear cat lovers, who destroy so much of the indigenous species that are unique to Australia) should and MUST be controlled. More of those please, mate. Nice hunting, good shooting. Although you do need to work a bit on your technique when it comes to running pigs. 😉 Just lead the shot a bit more, and you should be spot on.
Happy hunting and keep up the good work! 👊
Fantastic shots on the run, great work mate !
Hate UA-cam keep messing with your Chanel for doing the right thing. Good work and awesome content. Sending love from America 🤙🏼
Awesome shooting! Youve saved literally hundreds of native marsupials, reptiles and amphibians by shooting those cats. Hope you can beat that record by beaking the 10 mark!
I'm always keen to do that 💪
dude that's a big one they're evolving cuz the food is plentiful that's crazy
are any of these pigs you shot any good to eat?
Have a squizz in the video description 👍🏻
That was an astonishing number of cats on the one property!
As ever, good shooting.
Cheers mate
Cats, thank you, your a national native wildlife HERO mate. I hope people notice what great condition the cats were in. I bet there wasn't a superb fairy wren colony for 5 kilometres in any direction and that's just the start of their carnage.
Thank you very much!
In the UK there are approx 6 million domestic cats, on average each cat kills 10 songbirds a year, some way more, some none at all, but thats still 60 million birds!!
I see you know your shooting well. Ladies and Gentlemen , this is feral pest control manifest. What are the charges? Shooting someone's pet cat? Get your hands off my Thermion!
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He was just trying to shoot some tucker for a scrumptious meal.
Not sure viewers from overseas will get the reference
@@paule4204do you remember the very "take your hand off of my penis"!?
@@paule4204 *Succulent. They won't and that's half the fun of it. I can work it into any situation I come across. It's fukn hilarious.
I’m a cat lover but I’m under no false illusion as to the impact wild and domestic cats have on birds, lizards etc. They are a predator first and foremost!
As always a great video, I especially love the action on the cats, nice work and don't let the woke haters wear you down, they are only a small minority 😊
Much appreciated
Great work on the moggies, the pigs are just filler content for me. You content has me thinking I need a thermal now, must be doing something right 👍
Go for it!
Well done mate.....9 feral cats down means you've probably saved 10k of natives over the next year. Great work
Thanks 👍
Full support here mate, but there are some uninformed people in these comments😂
No problem about the wind , it sure beats listening to stupid music that some try to insert on their videos . This is really interesting and well done !
Appreciate it mate 👌
Wow those feral cats look big enough to take down a small roo. Have you noticed an increase in size over the years or have they always gotten that big.
Great shooting as always.
Feral cats can always get big, I don't see that as a new change.
They can get larger like on steroids. Back around 1984/5 on parents' farm. Heard one at night. Grabbed the 12 gauge with 4 shot. Spotlight was wife at that time torch over my shoulder. It was on the other side of the veggie patch about 12 ft away. Sitting looking at me. It took the full blast. Still alive and had to finish it with 22. Next morning got a good look at it. Fr legs were like a weight lifter and rest of it was just as solid. Very heavy when I picked it up. Shot a few over the years in my younger days and got a couple with the dogs but they were normal size.
Ok now that’s just ridiculous lol. Don’t tell me you also think these cats are bigger than bobcats and Canadian lynx. Average size cats in rural Canada
@@PumaGuy In Central QLD {Australia} a few years back, there were feral cats reported at around 40 pounds. They sure as hell can get big.
@@MickH60 I say this with all do respect but that sounds like bull crap. The most reliable source of the biggest cat was 6.8kg (14.99lbs). If cats were really that big they would be dragging away sheep like bobcats and coyotes do in North America. Cats that big sound like old fishing stories. Australia should consider its self lucky it deals with cats and not bobcats or servals. Animals that would hunt the same prey and bigger animals.
even domestic cats are a massive problem killing natives, let alone ferals
Exactly
by far the greatest predator on Earth, with over 11,000 different prey - not even Big Cats comes close
great dead cats = CHAMPION - i like other critters and NOT CATS - your doing a great job and service - thank you ! 9 cats HERO
Thanks mate 👌
Those cats have ( quite a few litters per year) so Those 9 cats would have been a lot more by years end , well done 👏
Exactly 👌
Great video, made sure my cat was in different room 😅. I like the rapid cycling - you could try a lever action like the browning blr or henry long ranger for this..
Glad you enjoyed the video 👌
cat INSIDE please.for all concerned
I have noticed almost all the quails are gone due to feral cats
I have respect for the job you do and the need for it to be done. Still, it breaks my heart that it had to come to this.
Nice shooting 🤝🏻. What caliber that rifle is?
Have a squizz in the video description 👍🏻
Love to know how many Native creatures you saved with that very successful shoot....well done!😎👍
Thanks 👍
Cheers Nathan..Always a Pleasure 😎👍Keep up the good work!
We need more of this in the US. People refuse to see the harm that feral hogs and cats do here!
Another great hunt sir! I am hoping I am going to emulate some of your pig hunting on my brothers place with my 1943 full wood .303 in NZ labour weekend (21-23 October) No scope, just irons and my 174grain hand loads :D
I reckon that'll do the trick
Jealous
Great shooting Nathan what a heap of cats 👍
Cheers
I lived 20 minutes out bush from a regional city growing up. We had cats that would be around the house yard all day, locked up at night and they were well fed. All the native birds would come including a family of emus as my mum would feed them. The birds gave her such joy. 3 boxes of dumped domestic cats (they turned feral) later and zero birds were left - you could put food out and there was simply nothing to come and eat it. Feral cats are a menace, lovely shooting.
Thanks mate. Yep, they do lots of damage indeed.
You should have cleaned that problem
Up
He thought he did the pig with an ingrown toenail a favor
by putting a bullet in his head.
Wonder what the big thought.
Does it change the outcome - No
entertaining as always Nathan love your work mate keep it up.
Thanks, will do!
What a brilliant outing Nathan, very well done dispatching so many feral cats to be truthful I’m bloody jealous!
Was a night to remember for sure
Dispatching of cats that are decimating wildlife is a nessecity, but some people in these comments are really getting a werid amount of enjoyment on the cats in particular.
@@gizzardwizard1 for me I know every feral cat removed is stopping that cat from killing 1500 times per year, it’s not just cats wild dogs, pigs, goats and deer are all destructive but there is more satisfaction knowing you just made a huge difference removing that feral cat.
@@jamesh2368 I would definitely agree with that sentiment. From my perspective, there does appear to be some kind of enjoyment that goes beyond morality and into pleasure, within the comments. I don't think there should be pleasure in it, you should respect the animal you despatched as it had no say in its existance in damaging the ecology.
That's very true, but most hunters have spent enough time in the environment to see 1st hand the impact feral cats cause. Hence often they are target #1 if sighted.
Nice job! I think the feral and stray cats are a lot worse than the pigs. Pigs do damage to the land and cats do damage to the whole ecosystem.
Combined on one property = BAD
What an amazing job. Reminded me, mate said he shot a drug addict cat. I'm like what, yeah he said, I shot it, first it was off its face then it was out of its tree. I cracked up.
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We used to have lots of rabbits out here in the country than people started dumping their unwanted cats out here n they are killing everything.
Lucky shit what a panther hunt lol brilliant gold medal 🥉 stuff😂.
Thanks Brett
9 cats, it doesn't get better than that. An interesting thing is the impact of sub-sonics, especially in the .308! A mate who was in Vietnam was using the 5.56 and had a VC coming straight at him. The VC took 3 hits through the chest and was going like he hadn't been hit. The mates offsider was using the 7.62 used one shot which dropped him instantly. I think it was a favourite with the troops.
It's a very handy round
Good job hats of to you fellow hunter im glad you are saving the lives of many birds god bless you
Thanks 👍
Love the video. Greetings from South Africa
Great work yet again young Nathan, I loved that pig with the excess head pressure, the old googly eye yet again. One of them there cats looked like it had googly eye too 😂. A good night indeed old mate. Cheers from Dan.😁
There was a fair bit of the googly eye that night 😎
Fark Nathan I’m jealous farken
Was a bloody good run eh 👌
Nice video
Thanks mate 👌
You’re very good at what you do mate, it’s good to watch
Really appreciate that 👌
You waste a lot of ammo. Your keen but keep it clean.
I don't believe I do but anyhoo.
Well if you own or shoot a gun you would know that you won't always hit something every time
I honestly don’t understand why people think this is wrong. Protecting Native species and lowering the pest population is necessary! Love the content brother. Showing love from 🇯🇲
Great video Nathan 9 feral cats outstanding mate. You’ve single Handley saved hundreds of native animals, bloody legend
Thanks 👍
Can you get a semi-auto for pest control?
Owning a semi auto in Australia is a hugely restricted thing. Even as a professional pest controller the hoops to jump through are immense.
Australian of the year! 🤣 keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching!
a good cats a dead cat i say keep it up great work
Spoken like a true piece of shit
Absolutely 👌
@@PlaySto-v4gextinction promoter
I live in the south of America. We get a lot of rain during the summer season. Sometimes the police department target practices on wild hogs that have gotten stuck in the mud.
Great shooting Mate!!👌
Cheers Josh
Such amazing shooting and aim thanks for cleaning up some pest
Cheers
Part of me wishes that some other states allowed Cat H for hunting for when pigs run up on you (or for final termination if you walk in on a bad shot).
I saw another video of a hunter being run up on by a buck and he couldn't get in the rifle quick enough to get a shot off, and was restricted by getting multiple off by the bolt.
IMO I've never had a situation where a rifle wasn't enough. But I'm not chasing what I'd class as dangerous game and it's pitch black with the thermal.
@@EDGEoftheOUTBACK yea a couple of the pig hunting ones I've seen have been mobbed by a pig. But yea they are shooting a very different style.
MEOOW... yeeehaaw!!!
Cat slayer Nathan , your the man you probably just saved 1000 native animals in one night
The numbers are staggering indeed
I’m heavily into conservation of our bush. Good job mate, keep up the good work.
Thanks, will do!
Awesome channel and content, I know you’ve run the American Predator 308, what was your preferred hand load for it? Apologies if it’s already been asked. Keep the content coming, inspirational for those of us with less time/opportunity to get amongst it. 👍
Hey mate, I always like a 150gr pill, normally 150gr Hornady SST's with some AR2208 powder. Sorry but I don't share charge loads 👌
congrats on the cats i have a 20 guage that has a good number of them under its belt from the wee jasper area
Note how the cats are reverting to their wild pattern and coloration
The little ones make better barbecue. Old pigs get gamey. Feral cats are considered the same as domestic cats in the US.
Thanks for your great work controling those invadors pls continue with that work