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Suhweeeeeeeet big Bobcat ND..


Congrats................


Ingwe

I shined it with a spotlight, stalked it, jumped on it & wrung it's neck.



Or maybe that was a jack rabbit... I get my critters mixed up....


Come to think of it this critter was quite toothy & died about 80 yds from me.

Now that's a good size cat Dave. According to my SIL there have been cougar sightings near his camp just off of Hyw 8 near Catawba, WI.

We hear about big cat sightings in our area too, I've never seen one around here but I do believe they are around.

There was a big one hit by a car down in bemidji which is only a couple hours from us.

that's "Bermiji" to the locals.

Hey nice kitty Dave! Did you call him in, or just see him sneaking through the woods?

10-4 on the cougar Bill. I heard that from no less than 50 people last week. Every time a guy got out of a truck...."hey ju hear bout dat cat?"

he was slinking through.

way to go on the cat dave!
we might need to get together and do some calling setups this winter!
I'm already planning a predator hunt in CO/NM over spring break

We should do something in dec.

I think bobcat closes in Jan?

there's lots of coyotes around too though.

I'd like to get into that vermit stuff. We have lots of coyotes around here. Cats too, but it takes an act of God, and 5 years of application to get a permit for ONE. Friggin' WI DNR.

We have a lot of bobcats.

And they eat my timber chickens.

Actually they eat rabbits mostly.

A rabbit bit the dust right behind the cabin this fall on the trail. Rabbit fur everywhere, probably a bobcat got him.

I've heard rabbits squeeling when I've been hunting out there too, could be hawks, owls, coyote, bobcat.. dang, rabbits have it rough!!

That rabbit on the trail....the one I thougt was a grouse fur. Pretty sure a swamp squid nailed that sucker. Way to much hair spread around for a bobcat.

As much as I know they eat the timber chickens, I'd like to get a cat mounted, swatting or carrying a grouse.

yeah that would be cool.

or maybe one like this...

BANG!!!!!! the fur really flies off the smaller varieties

Dave I still have not recieved an email on the design for the Chickenbuck hats yet. I will go in there today to find out what is taking so long.

I will also find out prices on the other items.

.264WM that sucker.

Speaking of cats...last year during muzzle loader season near my home town in west Georgia a guy hunting on a management area shot and killed a cougar.There were pictures of him with it.The Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife did all kind of tests on it and the official story was that it was either a Florida one a long way from home or an unregistered(illegal)one that had either escaped or had been set free.
There was all kinds of hullabaloo over it with some people saying he should have let it walk and others siding with his having shot it.I never heard the final outcome but it seems the authorities were debating over filing charges against him.
If I had been sitting up in a tree and a cougar walked under me I would have shot it also.I'll try to find the post on that forum and put it in here.
O>K> here's the thread.There's a picture down a couple of posts.
http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=265172&highlight=cougar+killed+georgia
In most all of the Southern states there have been undocumented sightings of both black panthers and cougars.The DNR in each state denies the existence.

Stan in SC

Alright, it has been a busy few weeks and I havent had a chance to post my brother's buck and story. Without further adeiu....

Brian hunted hard all season, dawn to dark on more than one day. He passed on half a dozen small bucks hoping for a shot at a nice one. We saw a dandy in the lights of the four wheelers one morning by our stands and I think that gave him hope.

the last day of the season and we arranged for a little drive. i had him go sit on the point of a 50 acre woods and Dad and I went to walk a willow lined creek that holds deer usually....but I have never seen a big buck there. We get into some cattails while walking and deer explode out everywhere...but no buck. Then another deer takes off. Another doe. We decide someone had to go into the knee deep water and see if there is anything else in there. So in I go. Another deer busts out.....but it too is a doe. I am now wet up to my knees and my waterproof boots are holding the water IN. Dad and I continue along and about 400 yards from Brian, a doe and a buck break out of the willows. A big buck. I hotfoot it out of the willows and I could have shot him at 80 yards, but it was in the general direction of where Brian was sitting, so I let it go. OH NO, it is turning the wrong way! I take off across the CRP yelling at the deer to turn back toward Brian. I like to say that I outran the buck with my waterlogged boots, but Dad seems to think it was the yelling that turned him. The buck runs over a small rise out of site, heading for Brian. Then silence (well, if you disregard the wheezing and huffing I am making anyway). About the time I am convinced it didnt work. THA-WUMPF.....THA-WUMPF. The buck ran right down the fenceline that Brian was sitting on. His first shot was about 12 yards coming pretty much right at him. The second was at 7 yards. Two great shots and the deer went 20 more yards. 18 inch inside spread, 9 points and one pretty excited 14-year old boy!

Great buck! Congrats to the lad.