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Caught my first Bobcat

Congratulations!
If you hadn’t known, be very careful of the claws particularly the back claws when you’re getting close. They can rip you up but good.
Also even tho you may have dispatched the cat, just scratching yourself with a claw while handling the animal can get septic in a hurry. Cats claws carry a lot of bad stuff.
How is the belly? Snow white, wide, and sharp black spots are the goal but mostly found in western cats.
Osky

Nice!! Catching a cat is always a thrill.

Looks pretty calm in the pic. Did you pet it?
Asking for a friend..😃

That’s awesome man! For the last 6 or 8 years we’ve let a couple local guys trap on our club property and quail numbers are really coming back.

Congratulations

Don't let up. I try to take out as many
varmints as possible that kill the animals
that I like to eat

👍🏿👍🏿

Wondered if you had done any good lately.

Been seeing quite a few cat tracks up around the new house but too busy building to deal with them this year.

Every set I make is for bobcats. I catch everything but
cats and fox are my goals. Congrats! Hope you get many more.

Had 2 goals this year, catch a coyote and a bobcat. Both would be first for me. Pulled my last 2 traps tonight and calling it a season. Ended with 19 coyotes and the 1 bobcat.

Nest raiders I really didn’t keep track of but well over 20 each of coon and possum. 8 skunks and 4 armadillo.

Word got out that I was trapping and having some success and I have people calling and stopping me in town wanting me to trap their properties. I enjoy it and it’s hard work but worth the effort. It is hard to believe the amount of rabbits I’m seeing around the house and see 2 covey of quail fairly regular. All but one of the coyotes was caught within a mile of my house and still hear them nightly. 14 of the 19 were males. Two of the 14 went over 40 lbs which is quite large for our area. Most of the males hovered around the 30 lb mark.

This was the last male caught after a freezing rain and snow in a No BS extreme. These traps are absolute beast.

Headed out this am to set another farm. Already took 11 coons and 5 possums off it in mid December. It's where I turkey hunt so I'm after their azz.

Had a small possum during the wee hours
in my possum/feral cat bucket.
I tried to make myself wait to mess with
it, but I finally got a headlamp and went out
and took it off. Pretty smallish IMO, but when
I was turning it over to get the tongs on a
spring I noticed it had little varmints underneath
it. They must breed younger than i was aware

Was talking to the conservation agent to tag my bobcat and he asked if I was still trapping. I told him I had pulled traps as it was so close to end of season. He said there is an extended portion that I can continue trapping on private ground till April. Going to boil some traps and reset this weekend a couple of select spots.

Would love to catch #20

Can start on the coons in August as well.

Old video but proves how many critters are in this world.

A guy I know claimed he has caught near 60 in 1 cage at a silo since last fall. Could be true but he also claims to have gutted a deer with a car key at one time.

Varmints are for sure detrimental to huntable
tasty wildlife.
I go after varmints as often as I can, although
I wish I could do more.
I've had a state wildlife biologist at a WMA tell
me before that varmints were the biggest
detriment to reestablishing the eastern turkeys
in the areas I've hunted. ( I know that was very
hard for him to come right out and say it- must
have been a weak moment)
There's just not many people trapping varmints like
there was when fur trapping was lucrative.
I know a lot of people that run deer feeders that
get upset about legions of coons gobbling up
their corn, but just a small percentage will
actively try to trap. They'll spend a lot of money
on cages and special slingers and rig up
contraptions on the legs of their blinds and
feeders, but won't make a one time purchase
of a few traps that will be useful for many
years, and proactively work on eliminating
the problem

Got one put away this morning.
One less problem to deal with later on down the line

I've lost track of the # of Coyotes I have trapped and called in and killed this winter some where over 200 Coyotes and and at least that # of Coons butt I have only gotten 8 Skunks And 7 Badgers I always keep track of the Badger & Skunk #'s , I hang snares all summer for pigs, trapping is almost year around here, this place is a big picnic basket for predators. Rio7

3 Coyotes---2 Coons---Badger-- over night catch on the South Ranch, Some day's are better some day's not so good. Rio7

Rio, that is flat getting it done. Nice work

Large ranch in the west the guy has taken around 45 coyotes this year, most snaring. Listening at night or looking at tracks in fresh snow you’d never known any were taken.
40 plus pound coyotes are big for anywhere. After 50 plus years of knocking them down between the Mississippi and the Rockies I don’t believe the average was quite 30 lbs. you are doing very well.

Osky