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Going to the West Ranch this morning about daylight, this big tom ran in front of me about 30 yards, I just kept going for about 1/4 mile then parked the jeep in the brush, walked back about 100 yrds down the road with my rifle and sticks sat down leaning on the fence, he came in to about 60 yards and sat down, Bang! Rio7

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1) cats are visual... they don’t care about smell so much

2) Sneak, Sneaky, sneaky buggers. You may not see them come in
Best thing to do is study each row of stuff you are going to be looking at when you start calling, and then look for change. The little suckers will sit in a fence row and blend right in, and you’ll not notice them because they come in and sit down and watch. So make sure you look at it hard before you start calling..

3) They like bird sounds, and movement - even a feather on a fishing line works, but I use something high (in a tree) and smothing under it - like a fur decoy with movement.

That and what ingwe said.

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Don't have many fox here except on the south ranch and very few down there. Rio7

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55 gr.nbt out of my ar-15 .223, not very furr friendly, would be much worse from a 6 mm. Rio7

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Shot a bunch of coyotes with 55 and 53 grain Vmax. It was actually fur friendlier than I would have guessed.


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Dennis, Think you find bobcats are softer than coyotes, hence more damage. Rio7

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That was not there when i passed 1 hour ago?

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Cat tracks in my tracks?

Maybe I need to sit down some where close to here and toot on my peewee!


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OrangeCrush, turned this cat around! Rio7

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Got a P.M. that said there ain't no blood on the cat's you kill, i don't think i need to post graphic pictures to prove i shot them with a .243 A.I.

This morning with Orange Crush. Rio7

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Orange Crush is a 243AI as well??


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I'm headed to Sonora Tuesday, I will see how the 95 grain TMK does!


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Dennnis, Yep. used to be a old .308 rem 700, rebarrel and different stock, We are covered up with cats this year i' have killed 11 bobcats in the last 12 day's. good luck in Sonora. Blue

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Blue is that a Zeiss on there? I do like the color of that rifle. Did you paint it? miles


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Miles That's an old Burris, I've had it for years I'd bet it's been on 1/2 dozen rifles, real good glass and the reticile is very easy to see and matchs this rifle to 500 Yrds perfect, I got that stock out of the bargin barrel at Danny's Pawn Shop, short action Rem. 700 stock, Ed, bedded it for me at shoots great. painted it Orange because that's the only color of paint I could find in my gun room, I don't think it looks to bad.

first thing I shot with it was a coyote that came in while I was deer hunting with a disabled vet, and he said you really crushed that coyote, that's where the name Orange Crush, came from. Blue

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Cool stories. I wish we were covered up with cats this year. I can't buy one!


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Here's a couple more from yesterday. 1 picture is a tom 2nd picture is a female. Blue

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Dennis, How's this for crazy? Shot this female this morning, she was walking down a sand road with her breakfast in her mouth about 150 yrds. Blue

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That is very cool, would make a great mount.

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Unbelievable!!


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Blue, I killed one long ago that had a rabbit. It was crossing a log spanning a small creek, and dropped the rabbit. It jumped in, got the rabbit and swam back to the log, then tried to crawl back up. When its head cleared the log, I shot it between the eyes with my 30-30. Why it did not go to the bank instead of trying to crawl back on the log has had me wondering for a long time. I was back in the same area the next day and heard what sounded like a baby cat mewling, but I could never find it. I was deer hunting at the time. miles


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