bladeracer wrote:BangWhizzClack wrote:bladeracer wrote:One of the properties I'm hunting picked this up on the trail camera last Thursday at 10am, the day we hit 34C.
The Tasmanian panther has made it to Victoria!
Yep, and he needs to go
The property is a tricky one as it is the top of a hill, finding almost any shot with a backstop is difficult. I'll have to try to bait it into a specific "beaten zone" and call in an artillery strike
Sit where the trail cam is...if its regular on the property you'll most likely find it will follow the same trails...to be sure scatter a small handful of dry cat food over that area.
Using the 204 should be fine...even if you miss a 20 cal 32gr BT wont hold together once it hits something, even a miss at a shallow angle to the ground there will be nothing left of the bullet to probably even make a sound on a metal clad shed 20 yds behind...
Even the angle the pic is taken on would be fine-(although i say that tentatively as i dont know the area or have a good/actual perspective)-if you missed & hit the ground where the cat is with a full loaded 32 Zmax for example i highly doubt any fragments would even make it a metre or so through the grass immediately behind the cat...(and no im not willing to stand there for you to test it...
)...although at that range hold high & be prepared for a serious mess...
Ive done a good bit of experimenting over the last 5 or more years with small cal fast flat shooters pinging frangible bullets as compared to the same bullets slowed down from 222/223, & the ricochet frequency even at very shallow angles with 204 & 22-250 is next to none as they fragment either biting in to sand or return to the earth from whence they came-- as compared with a scary high number of ricochet's from 223.
Having said all that, im obviously not suggesting to not worry about the backround...just stating realities of the vast difference that extra velocity can actually make to safety... anyway...you know what youre doing...
Now show me the cat skin...