Bobcat Encounter

[AZStickman]

Here's some video of a cool encounter I had one evening on my recent Deer hunt..... Terry

 

thats cool! what kind of bow you got there?

[AZStickman]

That's a Dryad Bushwacker...... Terry

[crotch horn]

Pretty cool Terry. I had a bobcat come in about 30 yards from me while Turkey hunting last spring. Gets the blood pumping.

[chanumpa]

Beautiful photography!Good job.

[Thumper Dunker]

Thats cool stuff.

[lunchbucket]

Very nice thank's for sharing.

[ArrowAtomik]

Years back I went with a friend in Kansas on his hunt.  I didn't have a license (didn't even shoot a bow back then) and just sat in some nearby bottomland reading a book against a deadfall in the open while in street clothes.  I watched a bobcat jog right at me.  I remember thinking, should I scare it now, rather than spook him when he is on top of me?  But I decided to stay stalk still.  He never broke his trot and slowly brushed within inches of my leg like it was an extension of tree trunk.  He continued on and never had a clue that he had walked by something.  

I should have reached out and counted coup but I was just slightly on edge  

[Friend]

Wonderful encounter!

The scerenery is picturesque.

[centaur]

Bobcats are ghostly critters; I have seen several while out and about, but never got a shot at one. That would be quite a feat with a longbow.
My last encounter with one (or more) was a couple of years ago in the Bighorns. A female with 5 kittens! They just gawked at me gawking at them from about 20 yards, and then faded into the forest. Very cool.

[AZStickman]

Thanks guys..... Centaur..... That's only the second Bobcat I've seen..... They are pretty nocturnal here. I actually don't remember turning the camera on and didn't realize I had caught the shot and cat on video until later..... Terry

[akaboomer]

I missed one this evening. I killed one in 2001. They are more wired than a Texas doe. The one that I have killed was walking and intent on staying unnoticed, that preoccupation was his undoing. The one this evening was three feet away when the Magnus made it's meating with a rock in the food plot.  

The lease I am on has a strict rule about predators and nest raiders due to our declining turkey population. Members must remove them if it's legal.

Chris