Well I did it, I called in a bobcat.
My wife stayed home sick from work today but was feeling well enough by this afternoon to watch the kiddo, so she suggested that I should go hunting. (Yeah she rocks)! I only had a few hours until dark so I headed to where I shot my first coyote a week and half ago. I kinda wanted to see if there was anything left of the coyote since I dumped her in the blackberries. I hike in about a mile and it was still there, untouched.
To cold I guess. Well I didnt have much time left so I decided to do a stand there, it worked before so why not. I have been trying to stick with just animal distress sounds and not using coyote vocals just in case there was some cats around. I started with kitten distress for about 5 minutes. Nothing but birds.
Then went to a call sequence I put together that starts off with rodent, then woodpecker, then cottontail, then repeat. Well it went through the first cycle and I decided to up the volume. I looked down at my mp3 player (my cell phone) and was having a hard time pushing the buttons with my gloves on. I got the volume up after about 20 seconds and raised my head and looked back towards the decoy....there was a bobcat batting at it!!!! A big, dark gray bobcat playing with the Mojo Critter like a house cat. The speaker blasting right next to it! I about jumped out of my skin. Then like an idiot I move my hand towards my gun too fast and the cat busted me. He stared at me and I didnt know what to do. I could see he was going to bolt so I raised the gun and fired at the same time he started running.
miss
The cat made it to the brush and my heart sank. My first called bobcat and I missed. A clean miss (believe me I checked). I feel sick to my stomach and now I cant sleep. Im sure I will get over it but this really sucks.
Anyways thought I would share.
