Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire It's bobcat season!

People are pretty quick to call someone they don't know a liar. Nice shooting Leonten. Glad some of them are getting mounted, couple had great spots.

For a moment I thought I was on some kind of anti hunting site. Talk about some pussies.

A very common trait of people is that of thinking if they havent seen or done it, it hasnt been seen or done.

Unfortunately, truthful folks are often quite gullible and are often easily taken advantage of.
OTOH, a trait of the untruthful is they often feel others share their shortcoming and perceive others as untruthful, often to the point of destroying relationships and thus suffering by thus ultimately paying for their own failing.

For certain there are many rare and unusual occurrences that many never report to others to prevent ridicule from peers.

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them. Proverbs 26:27

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these days folks are so dependent on trail cameras that they
believe that if it hasn't shown up on camera that it's not
there. some were doubting that there were'nt any
mt. lions/pumas/panthers in east Texas until they'd seen
them or lost pets to them. i've seen 3 on my place, and
one of the neighbors had some dogs dragged off screaming.
most all the neighbors on the f.m. have seen one.

Very interesting, Ranger. Yes, for years many sightings near Corrigan had been denied. About 15 years ago an aquaintance shot and bloodied one on a place i hunt. Coondogs would not take up the trail. This past season a woman gut shot one and ovarys were found in the blood trail. Neither cat was ever found.

The first cat was shot by a really good woodsman who was hunting squirrels in Piney Creek bottom with a 22.

He snuck up on a bunch of hogs he had heard and saw a ml stalking them. Lord only knows why he head shot it. I would have gone for the bulls eye-right behind the shoulder.

Where are you located iima.

the newest neighbor didn't believe there were any there
until he got one on his trail cam. he couldn't figure
where all the deer had gone. i told him when the pigs
show up, the cats follow and the deer haul butt to where
they feel safe. after the pigs and cats go elsewhere the
deer filter back in. SE Anderson cty adjacent to the
Neches bottoms. the TPWD won't say it, but they're there.

LOL< I've yet to loose a fawn to a cat... we harvest a few now and then if there get to be to many... and the hides are saleable. Damn sure never would loose a flipping calf to a cat... just ain't gonna happen here... 100 pound calf and mean momma won't let a 30 pound max cat win....

Coyotes too, I can't tell for certain after last years major flooding events if i lost a few fawns to water or yotes but before that, we had not lost a fawn to a yote in a LONG time that I can recall.

Other areas YMMV.

Love to watch both cats and yotes hunt. They are fun to watch.

Shooting animals for a reason is not a bad thing though. Shooting em to shoot em is. IMHO.

One day I'll learn to keep my mouth shut...

But here goes...

These bobcats are fruits of liberal game management in California. Or, non-management, I should say.

Populations get out of control and animals in suburban areas get conditioned to humans. That is obviously what these cats are.

Someone noticed cats in the neighborhood and went and got tags and cam home and shot them.

They were not called in a hunting stand scenario. They were shot in the back yard as they were seen numerous times. A female and her 3 kittens. They were too stupid to even run off after the first one was shot.

The following day the male bobcat was shot under the same circumstances. No hunting. No calling. Just shot in the yard as the live photo shows by the OP.

They were not depredating when shot. They were just shot.

So, forgive me if I don't hand out medals of honor for shooting human conditioned bobcats in an urban environment.

They probably needed to be shot to control the populace of cats within that human conditioned environment... And probably killing a few things they wouldn't be otherwise.

But, lets call it what it is.

You just move to Kalifornia?

And some people like to put words in others' mouths.
Never once did I use the word "liar". What I said was "I'm highly skeptical. I'm skeptical of 90% of what I read on the internet. Anyone with even half a brain is.



Cats (and Coyotes) don't do a tenth of the chit they get blamed for but as far as Cats killing Deer.....It's about as rare as killing four Bobcats at one time but it can happen. I'm "skeptical" when I hear about that too though.

May get a little dizzy watching.... opps, j-tx beat me to it.

How is shooting a mess of bobcats that are being a menace any different than shooting a sow and some piglets off a corn feeder, or popping off a bucket full of newly emerged ground-squirrel pups?

I'm surprised at some folks.

I guess it's because bobcats are cute and cuddly and they've watched too much Disney.

BOYCOTT BOBCATS!

Never had a 100 pound calf. Mean momas yes. 100 pound calf no.

100 pound calves ain't common, but we don't have cats big enough down here, to tackle any calf basically.

YMMV depends on where you are at and relative size of things I guess.

Coyotes around here are only about 30 pounds. Females 20ish range. Biggest male I've ever seen AND shot was 51 pounds. That one was HUGE. Still not big enough to damage stuff. Wild dogs are MUCH worse on animals. MUCH MUCH MUCH worse.

Geezus, with all the unsporting, non-hunting shyt you Texicans do to kill deer and hogs and still call it "hunting" you've got some nerve putting someone else down for shooting anything, for any reason, any way they can. You and rost495 are some pathetic, full of shyt pieces of work, that's for sure.

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