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Taken while y'all were off playing at LBL. Didn't post till now so I wouldn't distract from that fun.
That is a nice looking cat!! 30lbs?? Congratulations!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Quote from: HaMeR on February 18, 2010, 12:37:21 PM
That is a nice looking cat!! 30lbs?? Congratulations!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Thanks! He was big but really lean with almost zero fat, an old tom with broken and worn down teeth. I doubt that he weighed 30 pounds though he was close and had the frame and size for that much weight.
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He sure looked big enough. He's still a nice looking cat with good spots. :yoyo: :yoyo:
nice one :yoyo: and yes you still look fat :roflmao: but not as fat as me :hahaha:
Nice Job on the cat :yoyo: :yoyo: :highclap:
Nice cat! :congrats:
I beginning to think you might be a wee bit camera shy. :laf:
nice cat wtg
beautiful cat what did you do with him. id love to have him to mount if the price is rite
Quote from: Semp on February 18, 2010, 04:02:42 PM
Nice cat! :congrats:
I beginning to think you might be a wee bit camera shy. :laf:
Thanks!
It was overcast with a real low ceiling that day as you can see. :innocentwhistle:
Yep sure does :biggrin:. Great looking cat you got there but the story is a might sketchy :eyebrownod:. Glad you got and got him seeing as you couldn't be at the LBL :innocentwhistle:.
QuoteDoes this cat make me look fat?
I don't know about fat but he does make ya look a might short, grin. Congrats on the kitty! :congrats:
Nice :congrats:
He's got some beautiful spots :yoyo:
Really looks like a nice prime pelt.
Jerry
OK, I have more time now so will post the rest of the story.
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I was hunting with a young friend named Caleb, 20 years old, brand new to hunting and super eager. He hadn’t bought a bobcat tag so when we saw one sitting by the road at dawn he was out of luck. We had ideal tracking snow for cougars and I didn’t want to take time for a bobcat so we passed.
At mid morning we came back from the end of a logging road and found fresh bobcat tracks over our tire tracks. I was ready to drive on looking for lion sign but Caleb wanted to call something so bad he was about to bust. It was fun to see. So we followed his tracks into the woods a short distance and set up to call the cat back.
We were so close behind the cat that I was concerned we had already spooked him but we set up where his tracks left a low ridge about 5 feet high in the nearly flat area. I played Minaska’s Wild Woody woodpecker distress with a few bars of Bobcat In Heat every couple of minutes.
As I hoped, the bobcat ran back close along his own trail within 3-4 minutes and stopped 16 steps from me behind a screen of twigs. Caleb was sitting beside me facing 90 degrees to my right and did not see the bobcat. Hmmm… We hadn’t made any arrangements to alert each other. The cat would be hard to point out without spooking it and I didn’t know what Caleb would do if I poked him so I did nothing.
Looking toward our stand from where the bobcat stopped. Caleb and I sat behind the white cloth screen, upper right of center, held by clothes pins.
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I raised the rifle and aimed at the bobcat to be ready when it took a step from behind the cover. It didn’t move and my arms got tired. Finally I leaned over till I could see a golf ball sized hole through to the bobcat’s shoulder and fired.
Meanwhile, Caleb was blissfully enjoying the peaceful woods, into the Zen he told me later, and unaware that I had raised the rifle. BLAM! A short barrelled .243 carbine makes a lot of muzzle blast and lit up the woods like a camera flash. He jumped way more than the bobcat did.
My view from the stand below. The bobcat's trail we followed is in red. The call was at the yellow dot. His route when he ran back to the call is in light green. He was at the blue dot when I shot.
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WTG!!!!!!! that fur is NICE!!!!!!!!....... :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:
OOOOOOOOOuuuuuuuuuu good story and with them really cool pics I was sitting on your other side right along with you :yoyo: :yoyo:. Dang I didn't see it come in either. :laf:
Good lookin cat ! :yoyo:
Congrats ! :highclap: :highclap:
:yoyo: Caleb has been initiated!! :eyebrownod: :eyebrownod: Cool story!!
Thanks for the update and additional pics. Very nice!
Very nice tabby! One of my goals is to get a bobcat and one couldn't do better than that!
And the tale ain't sketchy no more Thanks!
~HF~
Way to go! :yoyo: :yoyo: Great story and pictures. I like the camo screen.
Pat
Good story and nice cat :yoyo:
Congrats :highclap: :highclap:
I hope to get one someday
Quote from: coyote101 on February 19, 2010, 05:38:16 AM
Way to go! :yoyo: :yoyo: Great story and pictures. I like the camo screen.
Pat
Thanks for the compliments.
That white cloth screen is thin synthetic material from a Wal-Mart fabric section. Synthetic doesn't absorb water like cotton and is super compact and lightweight. Think wedding dress or opaque lingerie material! :biggrin: It is 9 feet long and 48 (60?) inches wide, and wads to the size of a softball in my daypack. I have a one like it in woodland camo made of thin ripstop nylon from the same fabric dept. I keep both in my daypack and decide which screen to use depending on the spot where I sit, snow or no snow, and sometimes drape a mix of both. It is quick if there are any bushes or trees, etc. I bought a commercial screen for hunters one time but it is way more bulky.
If I was buying again I'd get 4 linear yards rather than 3. I considered making grommet holes to tie it in place but the clothes pins have worked well. I melted the end edges with a soldering iron to keep it from fraying.
The last thing some cats and coyotes have seen is a rifle barrel poking up over the edge of that screen. Some never notice that movement. It hides hand movements , especially when using a remote, and the only thing visible above the edge is from my eyes to the top of my head.
I use much the same thing except I use burlap and paint it either white or kinda/sort camo. I thread a strong cord along one long side that I can tie off to trees or whatever to keep it tight. The string also hangs on branch's or barbwire fences to help keep it up. Like you say they don't see any movement and I've had coyotes actually come and peer over the top at me :laf: :laf:. Great way to keep movement from being spotted and has absolutely nothing to do with electronics. Another thing that has happened with it is deer[usually bucks] will see it on a fence and they must think it is another deer cause I've had them come a few hundred yards to check it out :biggrin:.
Quote from: pitw on February 19, 2010, 09:56:53 AM
I use much the same thing except I use burlap and paint it either white or kinda/sort camo. I thread a strong cord along one long side that I can tie off to trees or whatever to keep it tight. The string also hangs on branch's or barbwire fences to help keep it up. Like you say they don't see any movement and I've had coyotes actually come and peer over the top at me :laf: :laf:. Great way to keep movement from being spotted and has absolutely nothing to do with electronics. Another thing that has happened with it is deer[usually bucks] will see it on a fence and they must think it is another deer cause I've had them come a few hundred yards to check it out :biggrin:.
Great minds.... !! :yoyo:
I've used the bare ground camo one for rattling whitetails, always in timber. I need to loosen up a bit and get out in the open more!
Good story, good pictures of a nice bobcat. Thanks for sharing. Love those bobcats! :congrats: :congrats:
Quote from: golfertrout on February 18, 2010, 02:44:25 PM
:yoyo: and yes you still look fat :roflmao: but not as fat as me :hahaha:
Man, golfertrout, you just flunked Femininity 101! :nofgr: :nofgr: :nofgr:
Quote from: Okanagan on February 19, 2010, 09:42:58 AM
If I was buying again I'd get 4 linear yards rather than 3.
Are you planning on getting fatter?
:roflmao:
Great story & pix! :thumb2:
Very nice spotted cat and yeah he does make you "seem" a bit heavier :wink:
I liked the story and detailed pics!!
Thanks!
Jim
pretty lookin cat and nice country also
Thank you. It is nice country, but not a lot of game in it, especially in winter. Here's a big view picture of the same area. I think I took this photo a week after we got the bobcat in this thread. The bobcat came from the valley that crosses left to right near the bottom of the photo, about two miles to the right of this picture.
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Wow! Big country no doubt! :yoyo:
~HF~
Good Story and also graphics. Nice cat and thanks for sharing. :highclap: