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I was out in rural Cass County about 30 miles southwest of Omaha this morning looking at some grain handling augers. On the way home via NE-66 the biggest bobcat that I've ever seen ran across the road just ahead of me. I guess that I'll have to see about asking for permission to trespass and hunt for it next winter.
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I like calling a truly big cat. Most I've called were 25-30 lbs. But I shot one that was a toad at 43 pounds. Was a tad worried after I got up to it that it may be a lynx... But it was pure bobcat, thank goodness. Go get him!
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Biggest bobcat I've killed here weighed 24 pounds. For years the local game and fish club has given out awards for the biggest or highest scoring animals and fish taken that year. I've never seen a winning bobcat go over 25 pounds. I've seen a cat or two that I thought was larger than that, but as of now have yet to take one.
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I like calling a truly big cat. Most I've called were 25-30 lbs. But I shot one that was a toad at 43 pounds. Was a tad worried after I got up to it that it may be a lynx... But it was pure bobcat, thank goodness. Go get him! I thought Lynx were purely a USA/Canada border and North affair. Do they wander that far S or do you have a resident population?
I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.
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I like calling a truly big cat. Most I've called were 25-30 lbs. But I shot one that was a toad at 43 pounds. Was a tad worried after I got up to it that it may be a lynx... But it was pure bobcat, thank goodness. Go get him! I thought Lynx were purely a USA/Canada border and North affair. Do they wander that far S or do you have a resident population? Was in NM at the time. They are protected there. http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/hunting/information-by-animal/furbearers/
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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this one jumped right out of his skin when he saw me.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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I had one do that also, sometime back around the late '80's.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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I seen one while riding offroad on my motorcycle this weekend. It ran down the trail for a while and then it ran in the woods beside the trail. I seen it a second time crossing a road several miles away.
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"Maybe we're all happy."
"Go to the sporting goods store. From the files, obtain form 4473. These will contain descriptions of weapons and lists of private ownership."
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My wife called a nice one in while we were having sex in a tent. Not sure how that works for hunting, but the cat obviously thought something that screeched like that was in trouble...
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Saw a gray fox yesterday that was almost all coal black. It was sitting on a trail, and at first, black fur made me think bear cub because we were in premium bear woods. Really stunning phase. My lab like the scent.
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Saw a gray fox yesterday that was almost all coal black. It was sitting on a trail, and at first, black fur made me think bear cub because we were in premium bear woods. Really stunning phase. My lab like the scent. saw one earlier on a dining room table.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Thanks! Sure miss that old codger!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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"Maybe we're all happy."
"Go to the sporting goods store. From the files, obtain form 4473. These will contain descriptions of weapons and lists of private ownership."
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I like calling a truly big cat. Most I've called were 25-30 lbs. But I shot one that was a toad at 43 pounds. Was a tad worried after I got up to it that it may be a lynx... But it was pure bobcat, thank goodness. Go get him! In 1971 I shot the biggest bobcat I had ever seen near Pearsall one morning that weighed 45 lbs. It was so big I was sure it had to be a new record for Texas bobcats but if I remember right the record at the time was 68 lbs.
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The biggest 'cat that I've shot was 34 lbs and this one looked a lot bigger. It was so big that it took a moment to register what it was when I saw it.
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I like calling a truly big cat. Most I've called were 25-30 lbs. But I shot one that was a toad at 43 pounds. Was a tad worried after I got up to it that it may be a lynx... But it was pure bobcat, thank goodness. Go get him! I thought Lynx were purely a USA/Canada border and North affair. Do they wander that far S or do you have a resident population? Was in NM at the time. They are protected there. http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/hunting/information-by-animal/furbearers/I heard Jerry Clower talk about a Lynx in a tree in MIssissippi in one of his skits but I figured it was to get extra laughs, not that they actually lived that far south.
I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.
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Canadian Lynx look way bigger than American Bobcats—but they aren’t. Lynx have much larger feet—are much longer in the back legs and the hair is also much longer. I see houndsmen in Wisconsin and Minnesota with pictures of Bobcats over 40 lbs pretty regular. I was with some boys who weighed one in Cornocopia, Wisconsin that hit 43lbs. Locally we don’t have many bobcat but lynx are numerous. I skinned one last winter I thought was the biggest I’ve handled. It stretched 51 inches from nose to tail on the board.—It weighed 27lbs and I’ve never seen one go over 30.
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I like calling a truly big cat. Most I've called were 25-30 lbs. But I shot one that was a toad at 43 pounds. Was a tad worried after I got up to it that it may be a lynx... But it was pure bobcat, thank goodness. Go get him! In 1971 I shot the biggest bobcat I had ever seen near Pearsall one morning that weighed 45 lbs. It was so big I was sure it had to be a new record for Texas bobcats but if I remember right the record at the time was 68 lbs. WOW....a 40+/- lb bobcat is BIG.....68 lbs is one someone kept in a box and gave it all it could eat! That's crazy!
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On my lease five or six years ago, had my nephew and his boy out there for the weekend. Saturday morning, and those two are sitting on the tailgate of a pickup parked in camp, flapping their gums while I was sitting in the shade of my camper with my laptop checking out the pics off my trail camera. The biggest bobcat I ever saw came sauntering through camp like he owned the place. It took me several seconds to believe my eyes and set the laptop down and unholster my 1911. By then he was moving with purpose and all four or five of my shots missed. I don't expect anything like that to ever happen again.
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America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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