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she walked onto the stage at exactly 10 ten deer on stage , all the deer looked up at her and flew out of the performance like someone set their rear ends on fire in 5 or 6 different directions !
been wondering why all the deer been ridiculous jumpy lately , for the last few weeks the videos and the actual in person observations have them about as jittery as I have ever seen , my bud who hunts with me often in there , has mentioned how the slightest thing has them out in a flash .
we have discussed it and have noted lots of coyotes this year and it is hunting season and so on and so forth, have only seen one bobcat on camera in over a year . am now wondering if there might be another close by as she paid particular close attention to one lone oak and ran her nose up and down it with her tail just a flickering.
a friend mentioned what a beautiful mount it would make , I told him how soft the fur and skin is and imagine what it does to one when you run an 06 thru it , close to cut it in half it did .....
will spare you that image for sure , pretty darn graphic ,hit one with a 308 many years ago and it was really large tom about 2 times plus her size and almost had to bring him back with one end in one hand and one in the other :yikes
they do not take lead well ,that is for sure
pretty sure my lucky crappie.com ballcap and tshirt got the job done once again btw ! :Rofl:crazy:
That's a good sized Bob Cat
deceptive creatures for sure and can take something twice their size down in a blink .Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
the southern subspecies is well known to be the baddest of the bobcat family and are known to shred hounds when cornered .
ran into a few in my travels with really bad attitudes , that one seemed to be about average size to me ....
seen several about twice that size in the past and they look pretty intimidating to me in the 40 lb and up range .
one thing for sure positive , the deer were scared of her REALLY bigtime ....
imagine hunting in your tshirt one afternoon at 76 outside with a light southerly wind ....
and waking up to 46and dropping with a 20mph and up north wind the next morning ....
man did the front roll thru that night ....:banghead
brrrrrr
Roller coaster weather for sure....brrr
Sounds like classic Tennessee weatherQuote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
When I first moved into my own place after highschool I had a Mobile home in the woods. Woke up to a crash underneath one night something running into the tie down straps making them vibrate like guitar strings. I went out to investigate. As I was looking around out of the oak tree came a bobcat. Looked a big as a full grown lab. I don't know what put that critter up that tree. But it surely had to be some kind of mean. That cat didn't give a rip if I was standing there or not. Looked at me turned and walked into the woods.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
Had a bobcat at 15 yards yesterday morning while sitting in my duck blind down at the pond.
Will the cat go to a fur buyer?
we have sent a few to their maker with high brass duck loads back when , sometimes it really looks great when you skin them .Quote:
Originally Posted by zummy
centerfire cartridges have a tendency to really ruin them .
have not sold any pelts in almost 50 years and not sure if that one would be worth spit .Quote:
Originally Posted by Central Minn
the exit hole on the off side was about the size of a grapefruit ,pretty well ruined for the most part .
keep in mind this , my wildlife tax exemption includes the removal of bobcats , coyotes , hogs , skunks , racoons and possums . they fall under the predator control program and them folks hold my feet to the fire making sure we do as it says in them papers .
the fella that checks it every year ,said straight out no matter how gruesome the image , send them all in as proof in that area of the guidelines .
Maybe use some of that fur for dubbing or tail material for handties?
daughter said lets skin it dad , i said honey you see that really big hole , maybe not this time sweety ....Quote:
Originally Posted by MCG1
Ok,being a Northerner could you explain what your wildlife tax exemption means? Township,county,state,land owner, I don't understand....Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
it is not all that well known even in Texas , it is a county tax exception that was developed by the state. so it sort of is like this , your regular taxes you pay on property you own in this state ie property tax can be exempted from the regular tax rates for a few reasons .Quote:
Originally Posted by Central Minn
one it is homesteaded and that keeps it from going up more than 10% a year .
another is agricultural exception for those that farm ie raise livestock or crops and it is around a 90% reduced tax rate !
then there is an extension of the ag version that is a wildlife ag version , it is complicated and complex and not easy to do for the most part and you must have had a previous ag version to move over to the wildlife version for at least 5 previous years .
the next part is the acreage must be a certain size min. to do it as well.
there are many forms of wildlife you can "help" though on the list and they list what you need to be doing on the property to fall under the guidelines in a long form .
in the end you pay about diddly for the property tax though and for sure it is a blessing towards the wildlife and owner of the property .
in our case we list several species of interest to help "umbrella" us so they have less of a target to shoot at ,if they want to try to tell us we are not meeting the criteria .
almost all the various wildlife categories are in need of protection to some degree from predation . so we trap them and blaze them and document the removals and so on and so forth ....
Yeah I got into a few at the beginning of the season. Their fur is really beautiful.Attachment 415488
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That is a pretty one
soft as rabbit fur for sure . it is no wonder they made so many womens coats with bobcat collars back in the day :cheers2Quote:
Originally Posted by #1Crappiekiller
I have to have a furharvester license to take one, then you have to call a game warden after the kill to get a tag for it. I need to renew my furharvester license as I plan on doing some calling. I have them on camera pretty regularly.Attachment 415926
some states regulate fur bearing animals pretty tightly , here if you want to sell it you have to have that permit as well .
but here we allow just plain ole hunters to whack whatever we want in the predator platform whenever we feel the need to do so .
not many places in the US where one can take a mountain lion without a mile of red tape and etc .
dont think any fur bearer other than jaguars and maybe otters are under the cant take them clause .
I've got these 2 on multiple cameras.
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I am pretty sure shooting one here would get you in some trouble.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
Most Texas hunters can only wish to ever see a lion , cats are particularly sneaky crittersQuote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
Last sunday I went down behind the house and flipped the ecaller on to try and call in a cat. Never saw one. Checked trail cams yesterday and I had a bobcat running to the call that went right by the camera. I shouldve been able to see him but never did.
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They come in facing the wind, with eyes open. Especially where they have been called before. Smart little hunters they are
They are fun to hunt, but if you are in tight quarters, they can be on you and you'll never know it. First one I ever called in I shot at 10 steps. He was crawling through some broom straw and never made a sound.
A good buddy of mine had a daddy that quit deer hunting because they were just to heavy to drag in the swamps in Louisiana.
He took up turkey hunting, he had a monster bobcat sneak in on him thinking he was a turkey.
That bobcat was just flat out huge ,he held it up as high as he could and the front feet were still on the ground ....
50 something lbs is what he told me it weighed
Sneaky critters they are. Heard a ruckus outside one night years ago. While out looking to see what was going on. I heard something come out of the tree and hit the ground. Biggest Bobcat I have ever seen landed and stared at me. I don't know what put it up that tree and I didn stick around to find out. It was certainly unconcerned that I was there with a flashlight
had coon dog that ran with me when i was a kid walking all over the big ranches i wandered around in . she would run and tree about anything . one fine day the rancher was on his way to feed and check his cattle some 30 miles off the pavement and while we talked she went into a got something treed hollar .
he said wonder what "Bell" has treed today , not much telling was my response , asked if I wanted to ride in his truck over that way and see what she had up the tree , said she sounded a bit different to him that day :dono
sure lets go said me , we went about a mile up a goat trail road thru the trees , to a large pasture and the second we cleared the woodline , we both saw the lion jump the tree , it left so fast it was hard to imagine with Bell of course in hot pursuit . there was no doubt about it being a lion as the tail on them things is as long as the cat , it looked to be a young one as it wasn't any larger than that big ole bluetick hot on it.
never seen it again and an hour or 2 later Bell showed back up as the norm, looking a little winded but good to keep going as always .
she was retired coonhound given to me and her ears looked like dreadlocks , she was sure enough one tough ole gal ....
It's not the dog in the fight,the fight in the dog
she was a tail wagging looking all tired and worn out big ole floppy ear dog and friendly as could be with humansQuote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
she was quite the opposite when she struck a trail on something she liked the smell of though .
sure looked all harmless and had them big ole love me and pet me eyes .
when the coon guy gave her up , he said she was one of his best ever dogs and until I seen her at work, I was like sure whatever you say sir .....:Rofl
Some of them are naturals. They just have that desire and drive to please.
seen a large last night , about got it with my truck at around 80 mph at 830 pm , it was all intent on something on the road side ,standing just off the double yellow line and then there I was just about to KABOOM it , left in a flash it did as we passed and we both said .....wow , that was a large bobcat ! :Rofl
dang things are big reason why we are seeing so few turkeys in MO anymore when we used to be one of best states to hunt them. see their tracks all the time and so few bother to go after them with calls and fewer trap them anymore.
I shoot every nest robbing coon or possom I see in woods. did see bobcat while I was in a place back when you had to wait for second weekend to shoot does and had dozen all around my deer stand. They looked at it, didn't bother them too much in fact couple of does went after it and it had to get into a thicket to get away from them. Interesting enough when a coyote came thru they did run from it, which seemed strange.
I called this kitty in twice. Two days back to back.
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When he saw me on day 2, he turned his back to me like it made him invisible.
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he was almost invisible , just saying , when they hold still in the woods they are pretty much just thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Redge
our deer being small deer fear bobcats, the state says in the summer months around 30% of a Texas bobcat's droppings are deer .Quote:
Originally Posted by hdhntr
I love to watch bobcats. Saw one last year carrying a black squirrel in its mouth. A married couple that hunts in the area saw an adult teaching 2 young ones how to catch squirrels in trees. Year's ago I lived near a swamp that had a resident pair. Pretty amazing listening to their vocalizations during mating season.