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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: bigdave on February 03, 2009, 09:56:46 AM

Title: Hungry Bobcat
Post by: bigdave on February 03, 2009, 09:56:46 AM: Here are some pics.....he looks seriously hungry.
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on February 03, 2009, 10:00:49 AM: Man, what a beautiful pelt!
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Post by: agchawk on February 03, 2009, 10:02:59 AM: WOW! I have never seen pics of a Bobbie taking a deer, big or small. Very cool!

Was this here in WA?
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Post by: saylean on February 03, 2009, 10:05:47 AM: knarly!
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Post by: jager on February 03, 2009, 10:10:50 AM: That thing looks like an ocelot! Awesome!
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Post by: bigdave on February 03, 2009, 10:35:48 AM: They were sent to me by a friend. Tag line said it was taken in Nevada.
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Post by: bowhuntin on February 03, 2009, 10:54:05 AM: Was that deer injured? It looks like the deer just gave up and died, it doesn't seem possible for a bobcat to take down a mule deer when you look at the size between the two.
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Post by: bigdave on February 03, 2009, 11:06:08 AM: I thought the same thing. It is on a road it looks like anyway. Could have been injured already. I looked at the first pic, it doesn't look like any broken legs anyway.
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Post by: agchawk on February 03, 2009, 11:32:16 AM: It's front left leg looks to be a little bloody while it's still standing. Could be that the bobbie did it...or I guess it could have been injured by a car.

of course, the deer is a youngen. The bobbie could have just wore the thing out. The first pic has the bobbie with a mouth full of throat already so who knows what happened prior to the first pic being taken.
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on February 03, 2009, 09:06:40 PM: I jumped a bobcat off a mule deer fawn it had just killed (I heard the scuffle over a rise) one September while archery hunting. I guessed the fawn was about 50lbs. The cat was just a streak.

One study in Massachusetts found that bobcats that killed deer in winter were 25lbs and larger, smaller bobcats didn't kill deer.
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Post by: 509er on February 03, 2009, 09:16:22 PM: Amazing Photos! I would have to guess that the deer was injured or sick.
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Post by: wastickslinger on February 04, 2009, 09:09:46 AM: Those are awesome pictures. Looking at the heavy snow in the background I'm guessing that deer had been tired out, or already injured. You can see its tongue haning out in the first picture. Kitty has to eat to right? :hunter:
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Post by: Machias on February 04, 2009, 10:39:09 AM: You guys are not giving those bobcats enough credit. They regularly take down young deer that are not injured. The reason that deer just gave up is his windpipe is closed off. He suffocated to death. They are pretty effeicent killers of younger deer.
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Post by: WAcoyotehunter on February 04, 2009, 10:41:01 AM: I know they will try for a calf too- a friend had one try unsucessfully. brave!!
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Post by: NW-Eric on February 04, 2009, 10:53:26 AM: awesome pics
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Post by: TeacherMan on February 04, 2009, 08:19:47 PM: That is crazy. cool set of pics
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Post by: firecrotch on February 04, 2009, 08:20:21 PM: very cool, looks like its a big bobby
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Post by: fishunt247 on February 04, 2009, 09:22:35 PM: Sweet pictures. I'd be tempted to shoot with the camera...then the .243
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Post by: firecrotch on February 04, 2009, 09:36:45 PM: Quote from: fishunt247 on February 04, 2009, 09:22:35 PM
Sweet pictures. I'd be tempted to shoot with the camera...then the .243

me too
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Post by: mulehunter on February 04, 2009, 09:39:24 PM: :yeah:
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Post by: wrangler on February 04, 2009, 09:54:46 PM: WOW! i would pee myself if i came around the corner and saw that!
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Post by: shoot-em-dead on February 05, 2009, 12:18:59 AM: I called one in that looked like that on the west side a few years ago with a doe in heat call during archery season. I thought it was a deer coming in. It came in fast and stopped about 15 ft from me then stopped and kind of stuck his front legs out and hissed at me, then turned and was gone. It happend so fast I never had a chance to pull back my bow. I figured I just sucked with the call so I tossed it but now that I see those pics I'll buy another one for next time I head down there. I knew they would eat off a dead deer but didn't know they would kill one themself. Cool pics. Now I'm all pumped up. I didn't predator hunt when I lived over there. Maybe I can talk my better half into a weekend trip cause that's where most of the family lives. Thanks :IBCOOL:
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Post by: billythekidrock on February 05, 2009, 05:57:02 AM: Quote from: Machias on February 04, 2009, 10:39:09 AM
You guys are not giving those bobcats enough credit. They regularly take down young deer that are not injured. The reason that deer just gave up is his windpipe is closed off. He suffocated to death. They are pretty effeicent killers of younger deer.

+1
There are a couple Cudde pics online that show a bobcat killing a whitetail doe.
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Post by: MeatGETTER24 on February 05, 2009, 02:12:18 PM: Wow, amazing pics, although if the deer had better jiu-jitsu skills it could have gotten the kitty in a good spot and possible gotten an arm-bar, or possibly a rear-naked choke.