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My 15 year old just turned down $450 for a nice tom he snared this winter....

Some of my pals have sold some for as high as $800 this winter.

The last cats I sold before I went to work for the outfit, went for $100-$125. Wish I had those back!

Hunted a place east of Melville years ago, the ranch hand killed some dandy stubbies, silver almost like a lynx... like to kill one someday. Ours are real orange

I suppose that there are good cats up here......but the quota for the entirety of region 6 in Montana is 50.

Region 6 is like 350 miles long and 100 miles deep. Its a big area for 50 cats.


The full timers get them all pretty quick.


Too bad about your cat Charlie.


I suppose you are not supposed to mail them or anything like that? I would buy it from you....maybe teach myself to preserve leather.

Like these?

Two different cats, both old Toms, from the same set, seven days apart. This was back in the mid eighties.

Crappy pics of pics....

Yep, Damn they're pretty

Man O Man.....those are dandy's.
The Cats in this part of ID are pretty nice but they'll never fetch the kind of money MT or Great Basin cats fetch regardless of the market.
The most I've got was $750 for a 42" XL with a pretty good belly. That was 4-5 years ago when upper end cats were fetching $1000+ on a pretty regular basis.

Ed, To many letters, and 2 cats we trapped this winter, I usually get between 40 and 60 cats every winter, we are covered up with them, they are tough on fawns, and adult deer, turkeys, and quail, most hides aren't worth fooling with.picture was taken in January, this year the most cats I have ever gotten in one day is 4 Rio7

Not this year but a good rep of our western Wa stubbies. 240 wby in my back field

Those cats you posted pics of look really nice. Cats from the south, and southeastern part of the US don't even resemble the species....;)

Nice tom I caught in a walk through set, under a big weatherproof sandrock shelf.



Another good one, caught in a flat set out in the open. They have a better nose than a lot of people think.

Very cool critters....I miss trapping them. When I retire, I'll see if I still have the touch....;)

It's like riding a bike......

Pat, you should put up the gangset pic.

Laffin', except the pedals don't go quite as fast anymore!

Pat them some pretty Cats! the ones iv seen here in northern Michigan, are a kinda dull light brown not many spots on them, but iv only seen a few while bow hunting and you cant kill them then! one day Im going to try and trap a few!

Pickings are getting slim around here but managed a couple good ones last night.

damn I'm jealous of that white stuff on the ground. Went down to southern Colo. yesterday with a good friend and we thinned the herd by 6. I used the big bore this weekend. big bore for me = 22-250
DSCN1378 by Tim Richard, on Flickr
DSCN1379 by Tim Richard, on Flickr

TR you are welcome to all you want. Just come get it. We should have another fresh 6" by morning.😫

Gorgeous cats! I would love to get one like either of those.

We have lots of cats here on the wet coast but as said, they usually don't have much for spots other than the belly and most are a brownish drab with orange underfur. It is a curiosity to me why there are so many cats in this wet world, seemingly considerably more per square unit than there are east of the mountains where it is dry and cold. More cougars as well as more bobcats.

Edited to add a caveat: Lots of bobs on the Olympic Peninsula and southern mainland BC, but I'm not so sure about the rest of the northern Pacific Coast. I went along on a one day bobcat calling foray south of here, near Centralia, WA, and didn't find a trace of bobcat sign. No snow so I could easily have missed some, but on the Olympic Peninsula or across the line into BC, an equal amount of roaming country, even without snow, would have turned up considerable bobcat sign.

Sheeeit! What in the hell is that?

I know its common to sit behind your quarry to make it look bigger.....but damn! Thats a big ole rat.


Bushy Tailed Wood Rat????? Living next to a nuclear waste dump?