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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2026, 09:17:20 PM »
Grab a predator call and a lawn-chair and a rifle
If you were closer I’d help ya find out
Exciting when they come in for you
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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2026, 09:18:41 PM »
Grab a predator call and a lawn-chair and a rifle
If you were closer I’d help ya find out
Exciting when they come in for you

Im trying calling and glassing travel areas.

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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2026, 09:19:24 PM »
Those last pics I can't tell anything to compare characteristics... Amazing how they see the infared...
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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2026, 09:22:08 PM »
Those last pics I can't tell anything to compare characteristics... Amazing how they see the infared...

Half my cameras are on video mode they will look at camera and just walk on.

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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2026, 09:22:57 PM »
Grab a predator call and a lawn-chair and a rifle
If you were closer I’d help ya find out
Exciting when they come in for you



Im trying calling and glassing travel areas.

Excellent best of luck
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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2026, 09:43:46 PM »
Those last pics I can't tell anything to compare characteristics... Amazing how they see the infared...

Half my cameras are on video mode they will look at camera and just walk on.

They don't seem cam shy from my pics either... I don't think they're afraid of much... Just extremely smart... I shot one and my dad shot one that I called in with a Lohman bleat... Called in several more but no shot...
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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2026, 03:48:54 AM »
Thanks for posting,kinda fun looking at trail cams pics and guessing.
Only way to be 100 percent is to have both cats in the same pic.
Learned the face trick on different bucks with the same antlers,to look for face markings or throat patch.
Some cats will have like up to 6in of black on tail tip.other barely have a black tip.
Ya they roam a lot ,5mile is like nothing for the same cat to be on both cams.

Still fun trying to guess,👍👍👍


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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #22 on: January 12, 2026, 05:22:44 AM »
The 2nd pic and most recent pic you posted are of a adolescent cat ( banding on the legs ) First pic looks to be an adult cat. Could be mom, and her young one (s) still hanging around

I think at least 2 different cats on your cams

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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2026, 05:30:27 AM »
Thanks for posting,kinda fun looking at trail cams pics and guessing.
Only way to be 100 percent is to have both cats in the same pic.
Learned the face trick on different bucks with the same antlers,to look for face markings or throat patch.
Some cats will have like up to 6in of black on tail tip.other barely have a black tip.
Ya they roam a lot ,5mile is like nothing for the same cat to be on both cams.

Still fun trying to guess,👍👍👍

This is my hobbie I set out last spring to get bobcat pictures as many as i could. I walked alot on old roads and researched on onx set cameras
and I check them a coulple times a week.I was suprised when I got the first lion picture. Many deer, elk and coyote pictures to find the cats. Now I keep moving cameras around to find travel ways now that breeding season is kicking off it should be fun. Sure is fun to guess where I will get the next pictures.

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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #24 on: January 12, 2026, 05:39:00 AM »
The 2nd pic and most recent pic you posted are of a adolescent cat ( banding on the legs ) First pic looks to be an adult cat. Could be mom, and her young one (s) still hanging around

I think at least 2 different cats on your cams

I noticed The black band on a video I have it was very close and walking around smelling bobcat lure I put out.
So the black band means young lion?

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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #25 on: January 12, 2026, 09:39:52 AM »
The 2nd pic and most recent pic you posted are of a adolescent cat ( banding on the legs ) First pic looks to be an adult cat. Could be mom, and her young one (s) still hanging around

I think at least 2 different cats on your cams

I noticed The black band on a video I have it was very close and walking around smelling bobcat lure I put out.
So the black band means young lion?

Yes. Leg banding is mostly faded at a year. Adolescent cats will hang with mom for about a year and a half.

These 3 were following mom. Notice the banding especially on the last cat In this video


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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #26 on: January 12, 2026, 01:39:16 PM »
todays pic

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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #27 on: January 12, 2026, 04:56:10 PM »
That's a big kitty!
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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #28 on: January 12, 2026, 05:20:15 PM »
I think this is the same lion as first picture. Big old shoulders on him.

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Re: Are these the same cats
« Reply #29 on: January 12, 2026, 05:48:37 PM »
I would agree... From what I understand big tom's won't tolerate other males in their territory and will kill them if given the chance... I'd be surprised to see another male cat around there that isn't with it's mother...
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