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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: sebek556 on January 10, 2014, 09:12:27 PM

Title: Woohoo bobcat down
Post by: sebek556 on January 10, 2014, 09:12:27 PM: Well today was a first. Headed out with a friend to scout some new ground and look for horns while we were at it. Didn't find any horns, but came accos fresh bobcat tracks. So we followed them to see where it went, and see if we could find a bedding area. The cat walked around a tree then looked like it jumped into a tree. Look up and sure enough, she is sitting on a limb 20ft up. Break out the 22, and dropped her out of the tree.
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Post by: deaner on January 10, 2014, 09:14:31 PM: excellent! if i wasnt sick id be out following kitty tracks myself. glad to see it can work, im not completely out of my mind.
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on January 10, 2014, 09:15:52 PM: Nice Kitty!!!! :tup:
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Post by: jrebel on January 10, 2014, 09:17:11 PM: Beautiful cat.....can't wait till I get one of my own. Congrats :tup:
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Post by: sebek556 on January 10, 2014, 09:47:00 PM: Quote from: deaner on January 10, 2014, 09:14:31 PM
excellent! if i wasnt sick id be out following kitty tracks myself. glad to see it can work, im not completely out of my mind.
Honestly I never expected it to work out the way it did. But looking back it could be a effective way to find cats, just talk with you hunting partner and scare them up a tree to hide,keep your eyes open. :tup:
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Post by: deaner on January 10, 2014, 09:53:11 PM: Quote from: sebek556 on January 10, 2014, 09:47:00 PM
Quote from: deaner on January 10, 2014, 09:14:31 PM
excellent! if i wasnt sick id be out following kitty tracks myself. glad to see it can work, im not completely out of my mind.
Honestly I never expected it to work out the way it did. But looking back it could be a effective way to find cats, just talk with you hunting partner and scare them up a tree to hide,keep your eyes open. :tup:

this was the first year i decided to try it this way. ive only been able to give it one attempt, due to an unusual lack of snow, then work, and now being sick. the one attempt i did make here in november, during the late whitetail rifle season, to track a cougar, wasnt successful. but thats one try. if it was that easy, wed all know it by now. i tracked a fair to middlin sized coug for a few hours, then lost it as it walked along a logging road over truck tracks. i was able to see the cat tracks over the truck tracks, but just barely, and fresh snow was coming down obscuring the already faint cat tracks. after about a quarter mile i couldnt see them at all any more and headed back. but the fact that i could see them for a while, on top of tire tracks, in a tiny amount of fresh falling snow, means i was close. was tempted to follow a fresh set of bob tracks day after that, but it was going through THICK stuff, i would have had to literally crawl a couple hundred yards uphill. when i got back above on the next logging road up, its tracks appeared. missed it by maybe 15 minutes. next year.... i WILL track down a cat.
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on January 21, 2014, 09:18:04 PM: Geeze Frank. I missed this one on here. Nice looking, I mean very nice looking colored cat. These eastern wa cats seem to be really light colored and BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: denali on January 21, 2014, 09:25:26 PM: cool cool :tup:
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Post by: Lincoln4 on January 21, 2014, 09:46:36 PM: Sweet!
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Post by: Hawgdawg on January 21, 2014, 10:14:08 PM: Nice job. Will trade you a shed for that fur!!!
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Post by: sebek556 on January 22, 2014, 07:27:24 AM: Quote from: Hawgdawg on January 21, 2014, 10:14:08 PM
Nice job. Will trade you a shed for that fur!!!
That's a hell of a offer, but gonna pass.
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Post by: Heredoggydoggy on January 22, 2014, 07:44:04 AM: You got snow there...lucky you. No snow here...poor me! :chuckle: Nice kitty! :tup:
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Post by: Blacklab on January 22, 2014, 09:07:21 AM: That's great! Rug it or mount it?
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Post by: redi on January 22, 2014, 10:33:14 AM: Sweet cat. Congrats.
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Post by: jason stevens on January 22, 2014, 10:38:02 AM: That will make a nice mount congrats.
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Post by: bear hunter on January 22, 2014, 10:45:42 AM: Sweat Congrats nice kitty
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on January 22, 2014, 02:48:46 PM: Quote from: Heredoggydoggy on January 22, 2014, 07:44:04 AM
You got snow there...lucky you. No snow here...poor me! :chuckle: Nice kitty! :tup:

Ya gotsta get outta your comfort zone Heredoggydoggy .......
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Post by: Heredoggydoggy on January 22, 2014, 06:08:27 PM: Quote from: CAMPMEAT on January 22, 2014, 02:48:46 PM
Quote from: Heredoggydoggy on January 22, 2014, 07:44:04 AM
You got snow there...lucky you. No snow here...poor me! :chuckle: Nice kitty! :tup:

Ya gotsta get outta your comfort zone Heredoggydoggy .......

At my age, comfort is everything! :chuckle:
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on January 22, 2014, 06:32:22 PM: Good job ! :tup: