In my experience, momma cats nursing kittens are the most aggressive hunters. That said, I also had a fixed male cat that was always hunting and who would bring me the caught animals to show me, before he ate them.
We had poor luck ever keeping intact tomcats. When they got about half or two thirds grown, they would go out and fight with other tomcats. Some never came home, but a few came back horribly injured, so I had to put them down. If I had tomcats fixed when they were kittens, a couple of times they lived to be more than about 3 years old, but most disappeared or got run over or something.
We have had several female cats that lived to be 10 years old or more. One had been spayed, but all the others were not. But with unspayed cats you end up with kittens, sometimes as many as 4 litters a year, so you have to do something with the excess kittens. If the kittens are found very early in their lives, they usually can be tamed and possibly given away. If barn cats hide their kittens until they can no longer feed them, I have had no luck at all trying to tame the kittens. They end up needing to be destroyed--a very distasteful job for me.
Although other cats I have had have been good mousers, I think the momma cats are far and away the best hunters. But you have to deal with the kitten population. Good luck!
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