Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Predators and Varmints Jumped a bobcat off a deer it had killed

Bobcats kill a lot of deer in this area, way more than we used to think. This is the second time in a few years that we have come on a fresh kill in the road with the bobcat still on it. They are persistent and come back soon after a man leaves. We've found several other kills that were almost certainly bobcats, all in winter, and the two fresh kills were both YOY button bucks.

Bobcats are not hunted much in this area of the NW. I haven't killed nearly as many as other campfire members but have three that weighed over 30 pounds. Maybe with little hunting, more of them grow into mature old toms more likely to kill deer. My biggest one weighed 34 lbs., below.



The photos of the bobcat killing a deer are definitely a bobby, not a lynx. Lynx have HUGE legs way different from a bobcat, plus they have a shorter tail and longer ear tufts though when I have called them I would not shoot based on ear tufts alone but wanted to see legs before shooting. lynx pic below.