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Same here. Pigs also get shot on sight. I enjoy watching fox, bobcats, and even coons.

I just don’t shoot bobcats. If you’re hide hunting or trapping there’s a reason. I don’t have a reason and love to watch them be cats. I’ve seen most of them back in Alabama. Was bow hunting a food plot once with a fallow field adjacent that had grown up in broom sage. Cold weather and frost had laid it all down so there was just a big mat. Sun was full when a cat came out. In direct sun he just glowed. Started hunting mice. Would stalk around slowly, each step slow motion, turning his head left & right listening and fine tuning the location. Then he’s bunch his feet under himself, jump about 4 feet in the air and come down front paws first. Great scene.

Don’t shoot foxes either. Again, no need. Shot a grey once as a teenager so my beagles would stop running him. Bobcats and foxes never hurt game populations where I’ve hunted in the South. They have all lived together for centuries. Coyotes on the other hand need to be nuked east of the Mississippi. There a relatively new predator showing up in the mid to late 1960s in my old areas and here in NC. They really mess with turkeys. Apparently eat all they can catch, supposedly ruin many a nest and quieten down gobblers in the spring.

Coons, on the other hand, are a scourge.

I need to do some more coon killin'. Kinda waiting for deer season to be over first.

No. When I'm deer hunting I'm deer hunting. I'm not going to alert all the deer around to my presence by touching off a shot

Yep. I usually wait till Deer Season to thin out the coon population around the Ranch.

Once watched a momma bobcat teaching her two kittens to hunt birds at one of my deer feeders. It was pretty cool.
And of course, they got a free pass that day.

I was told pretty matter of fact by a landowner that if he ever found out I let a bobcat walk that I was no longer welcome. Same for coyotes.

No, I'd pass on a bobcat, but all day, every day I'd shoot a 'yote. Some days, during deer season, I set up to coyote hunt, and might even see a deer.

I find calling in and shooting coyotes as exciting, or more, than deer hunting.

Skipper?

Regional name for????

First year deer out of spots.

Well that's a new one on me.

CT thing? Never heard that term in NW PA.

We use the term in NW PA. I first heard it as a kid in Warren Co.

I Must never have seen one when around anyone from the area.

Learn something new every day if I keep my ears open. Thanks.

Nope , I don't shoot cats .

I'd never heard it. Thanks to the asker and those who answered.

I've shot and passed on bobcats. My father and I watched a pair for several years on one place. Other's I've taken, mainly to help the quail population.

Coyotes never get a pass unless I'm expecting a specific buck (which is kinda rare). Leaving home this morning I was wishing for a rifle as I stopped to watch a coyote who'd stopped to watch me....I didn't think I could make the shot with the console Glock.

I've shot them in the past, will shoot them in the future, have let them walk at times, same goes for coyotes. Just whatever strikes my mood at a given time. I enjoy watching bobcats and coyotes as well.

Funny this post is very timely. Bobcats used to be really scarce in this area. I have never seen one in the woods while hunting. Just had one charge a pileated woodpecker that was working a log on the ground and miss it. It stalked across in front of me, (me being in a tree stand), but I never saw it until it made its sprint for the kill, and missed.
Bobcats require a special lottery permit here which I don't have. Would have been an easy shot. I watched it stalk up the hill and it spooked a couple deer that were above me and out of sight.
May have to start putting in for that permit and try calling one in.