st memorable shot while cat hunting

[jcutler]

This wasn't while hound hunting, but the only bobcat I've ever killed we called in while calling coyotes. It got about 10 yards from our rabbit decoy and electronic call and just sat there and stared at it. I'm sure there's many much better, but I think 120 yards with a .223 is a decent poke for a bobcat.

[jcutler]

Also a quick question, the picture above is the only bobcat I've ever skinned. But it had a whole top part of a rabbits head in its stomach, ears and all. Is it common for bobcats to eat a rabbit like that?

[Old dog]

that's a nice cat and I bet you remember that hunt for a life time. I notice that you call yoties? next time I have a litter stop on by and I will hook you up with a kemmer for a decoy dog and bring you're shooter we will set up some targets in the back yard and get you stretched out to 300 yards with that flat shooting 223 you own.

[Varminator]

It's not uncommon for a cat to eat the "Head"off it's kill. From house cats eating a head off a mouse or a Cougar eating the head off it's Kill, like a Deer or Sheep.

Most always a Cat will bite it's victim on the back of the Head or Neck. And some start eating right there!

[scrubrunner]

David, I'll have to name them all right now and in the near future but I'm figuring on unnameing some of them one day!!!

[scrubrunner]

Bobcat got to raiding a chicken farm down the road from my house several years ago, killed 10 or 12 a night just pulled their heads off through the wire, that's all it ate was the heads. The chicken farmer and his dad sat out several nights trying to kill it but it never came in while they were there. They finally ask me and my uncle to see if we could catch it, he called a couple mornings later and said it had hit them that night. We put 4 running walkers on it and had it caught in 45 min. Big female, couldn't run long with a belly full of chicken heads.

[Varminator]

Here I am with a Cougar that was killing Sheep in Curry County Oregon.
Note: The Sheep's head is missing because the Cougar ate it off.

[Unreal_tk]

One day I was hunting with a buddy. He finds this cat track that looks like a yote dragging its feet. I had a young dog by the name of Pepper with me and my Katie dog. Katie had been ran as a pack dog behind my two good dogs as they were pups. I had never ran her on her own at this point but she had shown promise. And I figured Pepper wouldn't do anything really. Let those dogs go. Not a peep on the track, I knew Katie was this way but Pepper opened well with the other dogs when it was good. They go about a half mile. I hear Pepper bark for a second. Then dead silent. I started wondering what happened, kind of odd I thought. Dogs show treed for 10 minutes there. And I hear a bawl that's a locate from Pepper. I decide to start walking with my buddy in tow. We zipped up this draw towards the ridge they were on, I hear Pepper treeing time to time the whole way there. Once within a 100 yds of the tree, Katie locks down with him. We get there and find a cat bed with a squirrel with the head ate off there. At this point I didn't trust Pepper enough to know if he was right or not. After some searching I find a patch of hair that looks like the cat. Only a 10 inch window though. Never could see it well myself. My buddy said its huge! And I was kinda doubting it... But we decided to take it... And turned out to be a kitten. Probably one of the more memorable hunts I've had.

[jcutler]

Old dog, that sure would be fun to call coyotes with a decoy dog. But I don't do much coyote hunting now that I have hounds.

[catdog360]

Old dog, I see you live in Idaho. Was curious if you were the guy from Idaho that hunts the Oregon desert all winter with the cur dogs. My buddy from Idaho talks about this cur guy and cat hunts.

[Old dog]

catdog that's not me but would like to know who he is? them ore guys have the price jacked to high for a non resident like me to afford lol and Idaho treats non residents just as bad or worse for that matter.

[catdog360]

He's told me but I'm bad with names. I think he lives around Weiser or Ontario. He has a motor home and spends all winter with his curs in the desert.

[Old dog]

who ever he is , I want him arrested! he stole my idea of the golden years! sounds like a lucky man.