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Huge Bobcat - bigger picture - maybe!

New to this picture thing, hopefully this will be a bigger picture.

AWESOME!

Even I can see this picture....LOL... I was sturggling with the other...
That thing is a MONSTER! I'm only 4'11" and about 105 lbs. so I'd have to turn and run if that Bobcat hissed at me! Fantastic job and I LOVE the older looking hound on the right!

HappyHunting! Heather

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very nice bob!

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what's the weight?

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Very nice bobcat. What state was he taken in? Somewhere cold I see.

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Thats a nice cat Guy have you guys filled out again this year or is that the first one so far any way keep getting after them.

did the dogs tree that cat , or did you shoot him out in front of them? he is a dandy. what did he weigh?

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Jay, nice hearing from you. It's been awhile. This cat weighed 50 lbs. The big cats sometimes won't tree and this one didn't. Rooster caught it on the ground. Old dog can't hear very good and Rooster just gets ahead of him and he falls out of the race. Rooster holds the cat until I get there with the old dog and then the fun begins. Usually the cat will hear me coming or see me and tries to get away a couple of times but the two dogs keep catching him, sometimes right under a tree. The just won't go up. I think it's funner than coon hunting.

i would really like to go some time . have had some success in the past with cats , but it has been a long time. wow 50 lbs that has to be some kind of record.

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i would half to see it weight to belive it weight 50 pounds

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I killed one in front of the dogs a few years ago that weighed 41lbs. and that one definitly looks bigger.

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this is one of my 2008 bobcats i will post some 2007 pictures later

nice cat congrates to bad your season is all over good luck larry

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i have a question,, not to sound stupid or anything really not much big game around my parts,,, but is that how ya'll keep the bob cats in tree is hunt them during day? cause when my dogs tree them here at night they always jump.. over and over.. have to just end up catching the dogs..

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There is a lady in WI. that was suposed to have trapped a 61# tom quite some years ago. There was a 55# cat taken in Northwestern WI., again it was quite some time ago. A guy just caught a 52# cat right in my favorite hunting area. Never did cut that track. Worked on a old track from the biggest cat track I've ever seen but never got it jumped. Came back the next day and still didn't get it jumped. Worked that track for about 4 miles as the crow flies through some tight cedars and a number of alder swamps. Went down a power line for a couple af hundred yards but that's the only break I got working on that track. Sure would have like to have seen that one. It walked funny like it was stifflegged or something. Very big!!!

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cats jumping out

i think this is a old wise tail not to make anyone mad but not many bobcats jump ive only seen 2 and were in very small trees with dogs trying to jump and grab them it just don't make sence they would only jump at night . i also nite hunt my dogs i hunt them on coon and bobcat they are very broke i freecast them on both coon and cats. i have been in hunts were people say must be a bobcat keeps jumping out and my good cat dog hasn't even opened the truth is its some kind of junk the dog has caught but can't kill and gets a rest tell you get there. more then likely some thing that don't climb if you never catch it.

yes sir, that may be true! i'm not sure but how ever i am sure of one thing! i have seen em' jump, and i aslo had one jump, and chase a pup of mine,, i was just to slow to get the shot, soon as my light came on.. that sucker was gone.... i dont know, but thanks a bunch for the reply.. ya'll know more about it than i do.. and hope i didnt bother anyone by asking.. thanks fellow hunters may GOD bless you and your family

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why don't you hunt them in the day time ?

Re: cats jumping out

[QUOTE]Originally posted by glucking
i think this is a old wise tail not to make anyone mad but not many bobcats jump ive only seen 2 and were in very small trees with dogs trying to jump and grab them it just don't make sence they would only jump at night . i also nite hunt my dogs i hunt them on coon and bobcat they are very broke i freecast them on both coon and cats. i have been in hunts were people say must be a bobcat keeps jumping out and my good cat dog hasn't even opened the truth is its some kind of junk the dog has caught but can't kill and gets a rest tell you get there. more then likely some don't climb if you never catch it. [thing that /QUOTE] I Have heard this too , but how do you explain them treeing , and hard , then off and running , same never ending race all night ?

I started a nice tom bobcat a few years back with three of my best hounds. It was around noon and those dogs all treed up high on a bare south slope, so I walked in with my video camera and .22 rifle.

I came into the tree from below and stopped about fifteen yards away trying to decide whether to just shoot the cat or get the camera out first. That tom was in a pinyon tree and only about four or five feet above the dogs. I laid down the rifle and pulled out the video camera, flipped on switch and that's about when the bobcat jumped--not one photo and the bobcat was gone.

The bober went up the canyon, turned and came back past me at a short distance and ran out from under those dogs. That was around 2:30 PM and the dogs never got treed again before dark. In fact they hit the road around 8:00 PM that evening and I had never heard another tree or had the tree switches indicate they had him.

Over the years I've decided that either the dogs hunt, the area I hunt or the climate I hunt in prevents the dogs from running down a jumped bobcat on open ground unless the bobcat goes and hides somewhere. I have dogs will run a bear from tree to tree until they give out or I come, and have often heard people say the bear decides whether it trees or not. I don't buy that on bear but do on western bobcats.

If any of you people can come out in my back yard and show me I'm wrong then I'd like to jump in and ride along..........

ike

By the way, nice cat and congrats on the catch.....I also like the looks of those red dogs you have!

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Just my two cents,Im not trying to tell anybody what thier dogs are doing but when my dogs are bayed up they sound just like thier treed.Thier treeing switches go off to,just not Quite as much as when thier treed.

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I don't know about in the big timber but cats aboslutely will jump here. If they bay they will be dead before I get to them but we don't have those big cats. A 20 lb tom is typical and maybe 16 lb sow. I go to south TX quite often in the brush country with a lot of mesquites and they jump a lot there. I'm sure it has a lot to do with the type of country your in. Also, I would bet that with the wide range of sizes in bobcats in different parts of the country it's ALMOST like running two different types of game.
A lot of game will jump tree. I had a bear climb down with me and another guy yelling and throwing sticks at it trying to keep it up, jumped over the dogs and took off. Only three dogs at the tree at the time and the bear was watching more people walking toward him. If they feel like they can get away they will jump.

As far as hunting in the day vs night. We seldom get to hunt during the day. There is no public land and our deer season lasts forever. Every decent size piece of land is leased to deer hunters for a lot of money so we have to stay out when the season is on. By the time the deer season is over it's not long until it's too hot to hunt in the day time. It's a constant battle trying to find places that will allow you to hunt with dogs here. That's why there are not more hound guys in parts of TX. Think about having a good set of dogs and the weather is perfect to hunt and you want to go bad but no place to turn loose. You don't just hunt when you want to around here. I'm not whining but some guys that have grown up around public land have never thought about it much.
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i am not a cat hunter, but i have turned my dogs on cats. treed a 40 lb tom in mn. it stayed treed. treed another little cat that same day it bailed as soon as we could see it. re treed and same thing bailed out as soon as we got close they run him in a brush pile and we gathered the dogs.
...we were hunting down by the badlands in south dakota. no snow 70 deg. day in feb. several years ago. we new there were cats in this creek bottom . we seen several sets of old tracks froze in what ice was left in shaded areas on the creek. people sayed they had seen a big tom through there at times.one sayed he thought it might be a lynx. not suppose to be lynx in that country....we free cast two dogs in there about noon. they struck shortly after we cut them . at this point we didn't know what they were running. they could have been running a coon for all we knew. well i falowed them with a atv about 2 miles. stoping and listening . thought for a wile they were running junk, but both dogs were streight at night coon hunting . then i was rest assured when they fell treed. drove in there and up in a scrub oak was a huge cat. soon jim showed up with the truck. and gun . to make a long story shortwile investigating this cat we noticed he had fur on the bottom of his feet couldn't see pads. like i say he was huge and didn't have the coloring of a bob. anyway wile we were looking the cat bailed and man did he run . those dogs were out of shape from being layed up all winter. we even cut fresh dogs in and they run that bugger hard for over 8 miles heading for that rough country in the bad lands. he tapped a couple of trees,and run through a little town along the creek . we were able to catch up with them and gather them up as they started playing out. fat out of shape hounds on a 70 deg day after a hard running cat was more than they could handle. i figgured they only way he treed to begin with is that he wanted to. i feel this cat was a lynx....

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sounds like fun to me i love those races. them little cats can run. i would love to tree a mountain lion some day but from what ive been told it wound be like treeing a coon. the bob cats are such a challange. i have got 2 really big ones these cats have been ran buy me and other hound guys many times im sure they have walked buy many traps and deer hunters. rooster and kane II rane them down and held them till i got there . you have seen how big these dogs are jay these 2 cats were just as big as the dogs. the 2007 cat was just flat mean i can still see his tail going round and round then he would take acouple leaps and grab one of the dogs and they would roll it took me 20 minuts to shoot this cat because of all the fighting they never got a good hold of that cat and i wasn't geting to close after what i saw. this all took place under a big oak tree i just think this cat wasn't afraid of me or the dogs . jay how big of an oak was it and how high up was the cat when it jumped ? the cats i have treed have never jumped once settled up high in a big tree we always let ever body get there to see the cat and get pictures and video.