Thread: Got my first cat!!!

Went out a few hours Sunday afternoon trying to harvest a whitetail and ended up with a 25ish Bobcat.

Nice one. I caught an old tomcat 20 years ago while trapping raccoons, he was about that big. Huge paws, hardly any teeth left. He wasn't happy to see me at all when I walked up to check that trap......

Originally Posted by CarlF

Nice one. I caught an old tomcat 20 years ago while trapping raccoons, he was about that big. Huge paws, hardly any teeth left. He wasn't happy to see me at all when I walked up to check that trap......

It sounds like your describing me, but I can't remember being caught in a trap.

Duck,
That is really a big kitty, congratulations.

Chuck

They are turkey killing machines and they also take new born whitetail fawns from time to time. That one should make a nice mount for your man cave.

Originally Posted by Big Dawg

They are turkey killing machines and they also take new born whitetail fawns from time to time. That one should make a nice mount for your man cave.

I hope the can mount it. Shot it in the neck with a .308 at 60yrds.

Been hunting for a long time and a lot of different states and never seen one in the wild.Thats a once in a life time hunt.congrats

We usually kill 4 or 5 in our camp each year....they like to come to the edge of the patches and look for rabbits...that's a nice size kitty for down here....

My coon hounds would put a pussy up a tree once in awhile but they would jump out as soon as they saw the lights and then the chase would be on again, damn things!!! I have never shot one. The neighbors dogs caught one on the ground once and he lost a good dog in the battle, never got the cat. We had a den of them up the valley, about a 1/2 mile, and it was one of them that got his dog. I never hunted coon up because they were up there, and they will ruin a hunt for you. Some one in Northern MN. shot a 47#er a few years back but I think they run bigger up here.

Originally Posted by flyguy

My coon hounds would put a pussy up a tree once in awhile but they would jump out as soon as they saw the lights and then the chase would be on again, damn things!!! I have never shot one. The neighbors dogs caught one on the ground once and he lost a good dog in the battle, never got the cat. We had a den of them up the valley, about a 1/2 mile, and it was one of them that got his dog. I never hunted coon up because they were up there, and they will ruin a hunt for you. Some one in Northern MN. shot a 47#er a few years back but I think they run bigger up here.

On average they do run a good bit bigger in the northern region. 15 to 20 lbs here and twice that up north, average sizes.