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Speaking of (REAL) cats

RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
I knew there was a reason I became an American Citizen...Driving to a fishing hole 2 days ago when I saw this HUGE cat...a bobcat. Absolutely stunning creature. America truly is beautiful.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Where are you from Redleg? I've always wanted to spot one in the wild. I'm jealous.
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  • Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had a girlfriend many years ago when I lived in Texas who had a bobcat as a pet. They are a beautiful animal.
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  • RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've seen them twice in the wild now, the first time a little close for comfort.I was guiding a kayaking trip on the Salmon River in N Idaho a few years back. Well, I really had to drain the trouser trout (so to speak) so I found a convenient bush out of sight of the ladies. As I was doing my business, the bush starts shimmying and shaking and the bobcat runs out from betwixt my legs, a little soaked and a lot pissed off. I didn't see the den that I was (mistakenly) using as a rest stop. It really scared the piss out of me!!! (he, he, he...pun intended.)The second one I saw a couple days ago was near the gof course on Ft. Leonard Wood, MO.Brian
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  • BoltactionManBoltactionMan Member Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Redleg,Sounds like the first one was as much pissed on as he was pissed off.KC
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  • s.guns.gun Member Posts: 3,245
    edited November -1
    Yes; you can be pissed off without being pissed on.But it is hard to be pissed on without being pissed off.
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Redleg,Your one lucky guy. Some of the cats I've seen would have smacked around your 'trouser trout' for a stunt like that! Owwwww....Munkey
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  • Ronald J. SnowRonald J. Snow Member Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Redleg; how much do you think this cat weighed? Back in the 60's I hunted bobcats with a man who did it for years with hounds and his dog held records for the most cats taken here in Maine. The bobcat is amazing in the distances they will travel in a short time. They will tree or go to ground to avoid a dog. The only cat I got over the years was while deer hunting in 1973; it was a large female weighing 32 pounds. And they look very large in the woods.
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  • RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ron,I'd say about 35-40 pounds. It had a very "commanding" way of walking in that it exuded confidence and grace.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Redleg--Are you from the Ft. Leonard Wood area? I'll be down there for BNCOC this summer. Maybe we can meet up.
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  • legn4legn4 Member Posts: 481 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Redleg, Iam north of ya a bit .Yes those little kitties are cool to watch. But those big ones with the long tails makes me nervous.
    Work'n like a dog all nite
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    Couple of years ago I was calling coyotes and had a bobcat run right up on me. I never saw him until he came out of the brush to get the rabbit he thought was squeeling . So startled I missed the shot and he was back in the brush before I could get a 2nd. I payed my way through school busting yotes for the pelts when they were 40.00 ea. Same year a friend of mine read that they were paying 80.00 for coyote palts in Idaho so he hauled a bunch from Oklahoma to IDAHO to sell them . They looked at his and laughed because the size and difference in the fur. Asked him if he had any adult pelts
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  • dhdh Member Posts: 127 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Big ones in East Texas. Last year my buddy was standing in the road and a * panther walked across,he shot off like a rocket when he saw my friend.
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  • hunter280manhunter280man Member Posts: 705 ✭
    edited November -1
    I stalked up to a bobby last year while turkey hunting, We saw it from about 500 yards away in a tree, thinking it was a turkey after dark. We wanted to find out if the "turkey" was a tom so we got a little closer...and closer...and closer. Got right under the tree before I figured it was time to leave. Its hard to leave quietly after dark without taking your eyes off the kitty. Nice kitty, nice kitty...R-U-N! Ten foot strait up is too close!
    Though I was born to royalty, I was snatched at birth, so treat me as the noble I am!!!
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  • mcneely77mcneely77 Member Posts: 411 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A couple years ago one of the guys at our deer camp saw one from his tree stand during bow season. He said that it saw him before he saw it. He let me know that he felt pretty vulnerable with just a bow, in that tree stand. I have not been lucky enough to see one in Michigan yet.
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yea, well, wait till you have a Fla Panther in your back yard, like the guy across the street from me did. And I don't mean out in the suburbs, I mean in town,(Jax,Fl). Sitting on a tree limb of a large oak, snarling at the 2 dogs in the backyard below.Cat had been tagged 80 miles away in the national forest. Game wardens shot it with a dart and it fell on the fence and broke it's back. Shame..
    Have Gun, will travel
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