JDBP Gets His Kitty

weedwalker · January 24, 2011, 01:58:01 PM

Jason (jdpb) and I planned a 1/2 day hunt for today after he dropped his kids off at school. We just went about a mile down the road from my house to a neighbors property. It has a long ridge that runs north/south. The winds were out of the south this morning, so to avoid a long walk we parked his truck at the south end, then drove my jeep back up to the north end to work our way south to hunt. It was a pretty good hike up the hill to our 1st stand. We didn't see anything there, but Jason informed me that he left his P/U keys in my jeep. So he ran back down the hill to get them. I'm just glad he noticed it on the 1st stand. We made 5 or 6 stands while moving south on the ridge with no luck. It was already lunch time and he had to leave soon to go pick up his kids. On our last stand at the very end of the ridge Jason was watching to the left thru some broomsage and scattered small pines with his shotgun. And I was watching to the right over the edge into big open hardwoods below with my rifle. I was doing some light rabbit distress on a small coaxer and in just a few minutes the female bobcat ran in just 9 steps to Jasons right side. He emptied his shotgun at her and she only ran about 15 yds and fell. At least we were at the end of our hunt and he didn't have to carry her all the way down the ridge.

Nice cat Jason.

kyfuzzyface · January 24, 2011, 02:34:39 PM

Congrats to you both !!

Carolina Coyote · January 24, 2011, 03:14:22 PM

Congratulations Jason, Good write up Weed, Thanks for sharing with us. cc

KySongDog · January 24, 2011, 03:16:05 PM

Congrats, Jason! Nice calling, Ed!

Frogman · January 24, 2011, 03:19:10 PM

Now that's what I like to see. Fur down! Nice cat, guys. WTG!!

Jim

HaMeR · January 24, 2011, 03:29:17 PM

Is Ol weedwalker turning into a cat magnet now too??!!

Congratulations Jason & Ed. I've always wanted a cat & maybe some day. Til then tho,, Congratulations.

Thanks for sharing Ed.

coyote101 · January 24, 2011, 04:00:20 PM

Congratulations Jason and Ed.

Way to go.

Pat

Hawks Feather · January 24, 2011, 04:06:46 PM

Congratulations on the cat. While I can't say for certain, I doubt if there would have been all that many complaints about carrying it a long way.

Jerry

bambam · January 24, 2011, 04:29:22 PM

Nice cat . Good job !!

linemansteve · January 24, 2011, 05:04:54 PM

Way to go Jason---

Looking good---- Nice cat !!!! Steve

Dave · January 24, 2011, 05:16:42 PM

Nice!
Congrats to you both. Good thing for Jason's kids he realized it about his keys then, and not outside his truck with 10 minutes left to pick them up! That would be me.

LBLDOG · January 24, 2011, 05:39:33 PM

Congrats WeedWalker on the calling and Congrats to Jason for the kill. Bobcat season ends next week too. Way to squeeze it in @ the last days of the Season

HuntnCarve · January 24, 2011, 05:41:49 PM

Congrats on a great hunt and story! Ol' Ed the "cat magnet"

Dave

pitw · January 24, 2011, 06:09:16 PM

How far between vehicles

. Great story and good job.

weedwalker · January 24, 2011, 06:52:42 PM

Quote from: pitw on January 24, 2011, 06:09:16 PM
How far between vehicles

About 1 mile Barry. It just saved us some walking. Our last couple stands were actually past his truck though.

pitw · January 24, 2011, 07:01:12 PM

Nice to have the option but bad to forget the keys

iahntr · January 24, 2011, 07:08:55 PM

Very nice ! Congrats !!

Hidehunter · January 24, 2011, 07:10:34 PM

Nice cat guys. Cngrats

Biscuit · January 24, 2011, 07:59:40 PM

Man that is one goodlooking cat!!! Nice calling

jdbp · January 25, 2011, 07:41:03 AM

Thanks guys! And a big thanks to Ed,

as most of you know any day in the hills with Ed is an adventure!!