wtnhunt Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Set a deer carcass out with a camera on it yesterday afternoon and was hoping to catch some yotes this weekend, had gone out yesterday afternoon and this morning with the .223. Took the .270 with me this afternoon instead thinking I may just pop a doe for the freezer and this kitty came in and was around 170 yards out when I shot. Not the biggest cat I have ever seen out here, but a pretty decent sized one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prairiepredator Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Awesome cat! That is my dream predator to shoot or trap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandonBowling21 Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 congrats wtnhunt congrats!!! Nice kitty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Nice trophy, you can have them. Have only seen one here and it was already perfectly dead.:fish: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 way to ring in the new year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruttinbuc Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 Nice cat William! Would like to get a chance to shoot one of them one time. Only one I ever saw was in Kentucky on a bow hunt. Freaked me out at first...:ninja: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muleyman Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 Congrats! that is awesome. I would love to egt one sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 Nice cat there William, congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcwa Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 Congrats Willam, thats a nice cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubledrop Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 nice cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 Beautiful cat William. That's awesome, and is going to look nice in your new "Man Room" :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyohunter Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 beeeeeeeeeeeauty i need to get out and find that cat i passed on durring deer season.....congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Very nice William. Good shooting on such a small target;). What did it weigh? Are you going to clean up the skull also? Bobcat skulls are pretty with all them teeth. Congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted January 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Very nice William. Good shooting on such a small target;). What did it weigh? Are you going to clean up the skull also? Bobcat skulls are pretty with all them teeth. Congrats. Really not sure how much it weighed, never did weigh it. If I had to guess, would guess around 23-25 lbs, felt a lot heavier than that by the time I got back to the house. Thought about the skull and forgot to say anything to the taxidermist when I dropped it off. Glad you posted, I just called him and asked him to save it for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Yeah, that skull will make a nice desk ornament Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 That is a HUGE Bobcat at that weight! We get them up here in the 10-20lb range. That will make a great mount a cat that size. Again...congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Archer 01 Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Congrats on the bobcat. That is cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted January 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Thanks everyone. I had shot a smaller one in our first rifle season we never found, we think that cat managed somehow to climb up a hollowed out tree. That is a HUGE Bobcat at that weight! We get them up here in the 10-20lb range. That will make a great mount a cat that size. Again...congrats. Taxidermist said he thought it would take the one of the larger forms. Wish I had taken pics of the front feet inside my palms with the claws out. I have seen some pretty big cats here outside of our season on them, got what I thought was a big one on video a few years ago during our youth hunt and the wife saw a monster cat under our box blind that same year in our ml season. There have been some rather large bobcats killed in this area, heard of one this year that got killed just across the highway by a kid that supposedly went close to 50 lbs, that according to the kid and his father who is a coach at my daughters school. Supposedly the game warden said it was the biggest bobcat he had ever seen. I have never seen one that I thought would go much more than 30 lbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 So much for thinking the northern states have the larger animals due to the cold weather. Can't wait to see your mount when it is done . This one William, was taken on our land about 2 years ago by my neighbor. It weighed 14 1/2lbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PotashRLS Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 That is a nice cat. We have to apply for a tag and may draw only every 3-5 years. One would think we have a large enough population to hunt them more. How does your license work there??? Seems sometimes licenses and tags are a lot about the $$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted January 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 That is a nice cat. We have to apply for a tag and may draw only every 3-5 years. One would think we have a large enough population to hunt them more. How does your license work there??? Seems sometimes licenses and tags are a lot about the $$ Small game, no draw. Season on cats opens around the deer rifle season and runs into February. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA_Spike_King Posted January 17, 2010 Report Share Posted January 17, 2010 That is a nice cat. We have to apply for a tag and may draw only every 3-5 years. One would think we have a large enough population to hunt them more. How does your license work there??? Seems sometimes licenses and tags are a lot about the $$ That is a great cat there William, and we have to go through the same thing here in PA as potash said. That and I have only seen 2 cats while hunting so I guess I'll just keep looking at all the dead cats here. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 That's pretty cool William. No season on them in Ohio, they are totally protected here. Not many of them around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted January 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 That is a great cat there William, and we have to go through the same thing here in PA as potash said. That and I have only seen 2 cats while hunting so I guess I'll just keep looking at all the dead cats here. LOL That's pretty cool William. No season on them in Ohio, they are totally protected here. Not many of them around. I usually see a couple here every year, but usually before the season on them opens up. I actually have had a few in bow range and had to let them walk past. Saw 2 this year while the season for them was open. Cat season here is still open, runs into February. Plan to try to get out and call some the next few weekends if I can. Videos below were both shot before the season for cats here opened up. Would guess this cat to be in the 20 lb range, that is a rabbit in its mouth. Clip from the 2008 youth hunt with a pretty good sized cat near the beginning of the clip, figured this cat was over 25 lbs, probably just a little bigger than the one I killed a couple weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA_Spike_King Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 William, how many cats do you see in a year if I may ask? Reason I ask is I have been hunting the same ground for going on 29 years and there's just not many around here. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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