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A guy needs a tag to kill a bobcat in Kali?

Not calling BS either way...but I have never heard of needing a tag to hunt a bobcat. It is Kali though, so I probably shouldn't be surprised.

My sister (lives 4 doors down the road) had 2 goats killed. She didn't know what killed them. The male jumped the neighbors fence, my neighbor raises sheep. My brother (lives 2 doors down the road) had his cat disappear. So coyotes and bobcats get shot.

I think most here know I'm pretty a good hand when it comes Bobcats and I'll just say....I'm highly skeptical...

My sister (lives 4 doors down the road) had 2 goats killed. She didn't know what killed them. The male jumped the neighbors fence, my neighbor raises sheep. My brother (lives 2 doors down the road) had his cat disappear. So coyotes and bobcats get shot.

Link to California hunting regulations:



http://www.fgc.ca.gov/regulations/current/mammalregs.aspx#460

You have to have a furbearers license to trap or shoot Bobcats in NM.

Tags in Oregon.

Never mind...I misread the regs.

yes it is free so post the photos

What is the point in killing a bobcat. They are beautiful creatures, I was just looking at one in Alabama in the woods a month ago. Beautiful.

You are a real bad ass.

Ok, I got a photobucket account, loaded some pictures, tried to load them here. But it only gives me three choices to choose from. And I don't know how to tell it Photobucket. Can anybody guide me through the process please.

go to photobucket. click on the arrow of the photos you want to share from your library. CLick on "links" at the bottom of the page. You'll see several options. Click on IMG codes. The codes will be copied.

Come back here and hit "paste". Submit your reply, and your pictures will appear

Sheesh. So are fawns, and they are more spotted too.
BTW, he told you why.

Leonten, I know a guy finally gave up raising goats on his 100 acre place because of losses due to bobcats.

Well said! Saved me a bunch of typing.

I certainly don't have a problem with you hunting what you can legally hunt.

If there is any skepticism on my part it's from seeing a user that's been here a week jump in and claim it just dawned on them that it's bobcat season, run down and spend $14 on 5 bobcat tags, get home, and immediately kill 5 bobcats. 3 of them being kittens.

I'm further skeptical about how much livestock they were killing.

Not being the only one in this thread that is skeptical, I may be the only one to point out that in many, many years of hunting predators, including some of that time as a Wildlife Specialist dealing with landowners, ranchers, and the public in general that have problems relating to predators, I can honestly say that I have actually encountered less than 3-4 cases of where bobcats were killing livestock. And only one case where they were killing deer.

So, kill them if you want to. I don't care.

But don't blow smoke up our asses about all the livestock, deer and pets they were killing....

If it DID happen, just admit that you wanted to kill a bunch of bobcats, and did so.

I doubt I'm the only one that really doesn't want to see any pics of dead bobcat kittens, so I wouldn't worry about the inability to post pictures too much.

I have a tractor

I don't know anything about California regs, but you have to have a CITES tag for each bobcat fur sold in the US. Those and otters. In Texas, you just go to your local P&W office and ask for them. But that's why I don't mess with them, even when they show up in coyote sets.

https://cites.org/

Here in Kentucky, there is a season limit on bobcats. You can take five total, and that includes hunting and trapping, but only three with a gun. You have to check them in and get a confirmation number that has to be attached to the pelt. Several years ago, I could sell one for between $50 and $100 not skinned. They aren't worth much at all anymore, as far as selling the fur. I used to kill a few cats each year, as they are probably the number one threat to turkeys here, just behind the local Mennonites. Have to admit though, it's getting harder and harder to pull the trigger on one, as they're pretty cool to look at it. But, they are a predator, and they will eat whatever they can...fawns, turkeys, chickens, rabbits, ducks, geese, and the like. A man in the county I live in just trapped the largest bobcat anyone around here ever saw, after it got into his chicken and duck pen, and killed 16 of them.

My puzzy sleeps on the tractor seat when the weather is sour. I'm trying to teach him to fetch the paper in the morning, but you know puzzies, they don't listen.

'bout 20 years ago we had a small covey of Bobwhites on our deer lease. Fool that I was, I got to throwing out birdseed in a certain spot they frequented. Only took the Bobcats a few weeks to wipe out the whole covey. I did shoot four of them after that then decided why, whats the use. No more quail here anymore.

They did get a few turkey poults at first, but over time(10years) they wiped out the Turkeys also.