First Bobcat.

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I am a rabbit hunter. I have rabbits , quail and whippoorwills on my property . I am going to try predator hunting on my property . I killed a gray fox while deer hunting and I let someone predator hunt a couple weeks ago at night and they got a bobcat after just 30 minutes of calling . Yes it was bigger than the one in this thread , but I don’t care if , how should I say it , they are that size .
 
red rick said:
I am a rabbit hunter. I have rabbits , quail and whippoorwills on my property . I am going to try predator hunting on my property . I killed a gray fox while deer hunting and I let someone predator hunt a couple weeks ago at night and they got a bobcat after just 30 minutes of calling . Yes it was bigger than the one in this thread , but I don’t care if , how should I say it , they are that size .
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You should. It’s fun and makes you a better hunter. But be sure you know what you’re shooting. And make sure, before you post pictures.
 
I have seen little ones and I can’t see much detail in the photograph but when they are that small they are generally still hanging out with mom.

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Highland Lofts said:
Here is a semi local cougar that will not kill another deer.
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That one surprises me. Anything short of a bullet train shouldn't sneak up on a healthy cat. I would have guessed they were smarter. Deer and cattle.....not so much


Ole Joe Clark said:
Looks like a feral cat
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LoonWulf said:
pretty sure a neighbor is missing their cat......
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Obturation said:
Looks like house cat to me but I'm no expert.
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I'm with y'all

tmd16556 said:
Maybe his name was Bob?
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Perhaps. It certainly wasn't "lucky"


But yeah the size is irrelevant. They are babies for a while. If someone shoots a spotted deer nobody says that's not a whitetail. Lol

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The two look nothing alike
 
Double Naught Spy said:
It may have been chasing another animal.
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I agree, pretty hard for that to happen unless it was trying to go between cars.

Something hit by the front is generally a bit more shredded. Sometimes hunks being ripped off by the spikes down both sides.

That said, you can see a hunk of the rear skin caught on a spike and almost torn from the remainder, suggesting a right to left direction of travel.

Kind of odd the hunk of meat caught on the spike from the opposite direction on the front end though.

Maybe someone grabbed the front and pulled it back to the rear for the photo.?
 
LoonWulf said:
yeah pretty sure a neighbor is missing their cat......
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Around here feral cats are a rare target. I've shot three Bobcats, and trapped two others. (in season) On the rare occasions I've had a long shot at a feral
cat, I've missed. Never got one in a trap. My guess is, it's no secret to them they're unpopular. So, he missed the breed identification, but if there was no collar, IME, he shot something far more difficult to take than a Bobcat.
 
I've shot several bobcats and feral cats but I've never seen a bobcat that small. I did trap a bobcat in my front yard that only weighed 9 lbs. but it was still bigger than a house cat.

Many years ago I read in "Wyoming Wildlife" that up to 60% of the pheasants that they released for hunting were killed by feral cats. Morris is a killer.
 
If you let your house cat roam they consistently bring dead animals or pieces of dead animals home.
With mouse/rat traps and poisonous baits out there there is no need to own a cat any more.
Eliminate a cat and you save a lot of song birds and some small game.

The cougars kill an average of a deer in less then a week.
Kill one of them and you are saving 55 to 65 deer a year and some elk as well.
That is part of the reason the average deer killed by hunters in Washington State is only 26,000 deer a year.

While the average deer killed by hunters in New York State in 220,000 deer a year and New York is smaller in square miles then Washington state.

CAT THE OTHER WHITE MEAT.
and yes they do eat cougars out here in Washington State.
The butcher shops will cut them up for you.

Me, No thank you.
Same as coyotes, I,ll pass on them to.
 
They have several post on the HuntWA forum under the cougar section of people who harvested them and took them in to get butchered.
I never ate cat or dog and never will.
If that is someones cup of tea, Have at it and you can have all of mine as well.
If by chance I ever shoot one I will give the meat away.
Waste not, want not.

I looked again on the HuntWA forum. The cougar hunting is under OTHER BIG GAME
under the WOLF Section.
There is some interesting reading, the WOLF SECTION.

Our game department lies more to us then a liberal does to a prosecuter.
 
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