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Author Topic: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...  (Read 1006 times)

Offline BowHunterGA

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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2012, 02:06:00 PM »
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Not great but pretty good one handed and with urine down one leg.
That's funny!

Reminds me of a joke I once heard about 2 hunters being stalked by a mountain lion. The  one hunter tells the other "I am going to get away and he will get you....because I will be ahead of you running on dry ground while you will be running in mud behind me."

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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2012, 02:08:00 PM »
Great story. I've seen a lot of them out here but only the rear end running away. I can imagine your vocabulary got a work out, all right.
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2012, 02:40:00 PM »
Great story well written.
To be honest I am surprised you had the presence of mind to take photos! I think I would have been in too much shock to think of it. Well done!

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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #23 on: January 05, 2012, 03:35:00 PM »
that would be kin to haveing a weedeater loose in your fruit of the looms...TKS for the story and pic's

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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #24 on: January 05, 2012, 03:52:00 PM »
Wow what a hunt. Great story
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2012, 04:37:00 PM »
Very cool.  Around here they run like a scalede cat if you blink when they look your way, but kits would make all the difference!!

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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2012, 04:44:00 PM »
Great story and pics! Thanks for sharing. Clorox will take care of the drawers
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #27 on: January 05, 2012, 07:43:00 PM »
Hey Mike,

Enjoyed the story! Had a similar deal in turkey season last year, in the dark.

Lots of growling and snarling at about 15 yds.  :help:   Flashlite in backpack, talked to it not so quietly with sailor words to no avail, so just walked on.

Finally heard little ones (I think), scurry up tree. Had an arra nocked while listening to it, figured I'd never see the critter, but it might run into my arra....  :laughing:
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2012, 07:50:00 PM »
With your luck this year Mike, you ought to be carrying a rabbits foot, buckeye, or an assortment of good luck charms! I have seen lots of bobcats in Texas and a few in Colorado but never one here in Illinois. Never even got any pics on a trail cam. Glad you are hunting with no bad effects from your fall. Sorry but I will miss you at the banquet as we will still be in Texas.
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #29 on: January 05, 2012, 08:00:00 PM »
that story made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
 WOW!!!!! i woiuld have liked to seen that

i saw my first one ever in il on new years day this year, no story like that, it just slipped past me at 20 yards. I watched in awe thru my bino's

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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2012, 08:20:00 PM »
What a cool experience! Thanks for sharing, and I'm glad only your drawers took a beating!    :laughing:
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #31 on: January 05, 2012, 08:27:00 PM »
Pretty cool story. I've never seen a bobcat in the wild.
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #32 on: January 05, 2012, 08:35:00 PM »
VERY cool...you say you encounter them often.

In all my life in the woods, I only ever saw 2 and it was the same day...here in Central PA and they were sooty grey...looked like they crawled through a dirty stove pipe!

Female first...then a long-legged male came by... amazing to see for this ole hoss! No personal encounter of your ilk though...just never saw any that were sooty grey like that!
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #33 on: January 05, 2012, 09:42:00 PM »
Here in our part of IL the population is growing rapidily. The DNR thinks there are at least 2300 bobcats in our part of the state. Deer hunting here you either hunt the field edge cover, funnels which include waterways and mini-thickets, or the little swampy areas between giant crop fields. These areas IMO are where the cats thrive: lots of escape cover and plenty of food nearby. I have seen maybe 20 in 20 years of bowhunting KY, TN, and here, but I bet I have seen 15 of those here in IL the last 10 years. Pretty neat animals so long as they are not offering to unzip your femoral artery for messin' with her youngins'   :)
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #34 on: January 05, 2012, 10:12:00 PM »
Awesome pics
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #35 on: January 06, 2012, 06:39:00 PM »
:eek:  Wow just saw this thread Awesome!   :thumbsup:   Thanks for sharing!   :clapper:

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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #36 on: January 07, 2012, 03:09:00 AM »
Real cool stuff. Cool pictures.  :thumbsup:
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #37 on: January 07, 2012, 07:32:00 AM »
Both fascinating and suspenceful encounter.

Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #38 on: January 07, 2012, 07:38:00 AM »
I've seen a couple in the last few years. They are really cool to watch. I think coming up the tree after me might be too close.
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Re: Itty bitty kitty wanted to eat me...
« Reply #39 on: January 07, 2012, 08:24:00 AM »
AWESOME!!!!!!!Never seen one myself, thanks for the story.
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