Registered: Jun 2003
Location: IN
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My nephew had set some traps for coyote and when he ran them he had caught a bob cat. While there are several bobcats in southern Indiana, it's pretty rare to see one. After taking a few pictures, he took a piece of plywood and was able to release the cat pretty much unharmed. It was caught by the ball on a hind foot.

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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Pendleton, IN
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Jim

Spent the weekend in Evansville and was talking with my girl friends father who has a deer lease on the Wabash near New Harmony and he saw a bobcat come through the other morning while deer hunting. Occasionaly you will hear a report that they are this far north (central, IN), but I might have to see it to believe it.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: IN
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Wes This one was just a little west of Huntingburg. Which isn't all that far from Evansville.

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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: (Richmond IN)
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Ive seen several on our farm over the last 15 years or so.I live right outside (Richmond IN).....The DNR has been letting them loose for years with trackers on them....None that I seen had one on........

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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Indiana
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In 1979 I was fully immersed in the fur business and ran a pretty substantial fox trapline (we did not have coyotes at the time, so there were lots of fox). One snowy morning while running fox traps in about four inches of snow off a three wheeler (there were no 4 wheelers then) I cut a set of bobcat tracks in the snow.

I knew the district game biologist pretty well, and later that day I told him about it. He told me that I was mistaken, that there were no bobcat in Indiana....so I invited him to see for himself. We went back to the field where the track were, and I walked him directly to that set of tracks. It took him about 30 seconds to agree with me that the tracks were indeed those of a bobcat.

Interestingly enough, that was the same field that I had caught and released two different badgers earlier in the fall.

Two years ago while hunting in the same area, I watched a bobcat bail out of a tree while walking to my dogs that were treed nearby......they are here, but there are not a lot of them, and they are so secretive that most never see them.

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Registered: Jan 2005
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their here and I know of two places that I can find them just about any time I would want to find one would a lot rather have bobcats than those **** Yote's

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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: N.W. Indiana
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Weve treed a few on the IN, MI border. They usually bail the tree then retree.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Tennessee
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Down here in TN we have quit a few Bobs so I know what they can do at night. We have managed to shoot a few out at night(just a few). Most of the time like you all say they will bail at night.
We got after one off the Wabash River one night in Northern IN and it bailed several times(trashy hounds).
Once in Green county, IN just on the north side of Crane Naval Base my cousin and I spotted a MT Lion. We were deer hunting and the cat circled us then moved on out. No doubt in my eyes that it was a lion. I'm sure it was one of those traveling cats like we get down here in TN. Bobs and Mt Lions are beautiful creatures.

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