International Bobcat Contest

[Beebout-it]

Here he is in the tree.

[david]

That is an amazing photo. You must be using a really good camera. Magazine quality.

Congratulations on a beautiful catch, and great photo of it.

[mark]

Mondo likes them pictures to be sideways lol
Beautiful cat and picture.

[Beebout-it]

My buddy has a great camera with wifi so he sends them to his phone. Thanks guys.

[mondomuttruner]

Beautiful pics...Might want to give Mark a few pointers on picture taking...

[Beebout-it]

This is the best I can do so I need lessons to.

[mark]

Now ur talkin!!!!!! Thats my kind of photography, leaves a little to the imagination! Good job lol

I could of had a contender for the big cat contest the other day. Dogs caught one on the ground but had it half ate by the time i got there and it still weighed 18 pounds. I would post a picture but the internet police would probly tear me a new one lol

[catdog360]

I had you beat by a long shot today Mark, but that's all I'm saying

[mark]

Aw cmon mic give us a story

[dhostetler]

This is one of the only cats I treed so far that I could actually take a picture. My cats mostly tree in old growth trees where you need binoculars to find. Yes my photo taking abilities are also very much to be desired.

Our kill season closed yesterday. I got my limit of four, it was kind of a bittersweet year caught my biggest one ever but that was the only one I shot that I turned on, the other 3 were the wrong cats dogs switched on me. My descion to shoot is usually made based on the track I turn on as I can hardly ever see a cat well enough in the tree to judge it. Passing up a lot of small tracks then turning on a nice tom track and shooting out a 12 lb female is disgusting especially if you can kill only 4 a year.

[dhostetler]

And I guess I'm in Mark's situation too. The picture is not sideways on my phone, so I don't know how it ends up sideways here.

[mark]

Sounds like you had tracks switched on you several times, i wonder if that ever happens on those 24 hour old cold trail and catch tracks?

[mike martell]

Treed this nice tom bobcat. It weighed 23.15 pounds and is the one in the picture above. I cut a second female track that come out of a bluffed out location, I had a difficult time finding the outbound track, it walked a snow packed road for about a mile before leaving the road, I had it up and rolling in fifteen minutes and treed within a half hour after starting it, to me the most fun is unraveling these tracks and then trailing them up to the jump and tree.

Looks like Devon's 29.80 pound bobcat will take first place unless there is a late entry? I will wait until the first of January to post result. David Peightal donated $60.00 to FRTHC. I paid David's $10.00 club membership and will use the $50.00 balance in the payout to the first place winner along with the total dollar amount paid by all contestants, this is the only fair thing to do to give the winner a modest pay out.... If you all noticed? All your checks haven't been cashed or deposited. I wanted to make sure all went well before cashing a single check. This was intended to be a fun competition that had few entries. Looks like this thread can continue as.....How the heck do we post nice bobcat pictures on BGH.

I will look at the checks sent and return any dollar amount if you happen to be the only entry paid for January and February. I haven't paid to close attention since I'm trying to hunt when possible.

Happy New Year!

Mike

[dhostetler]

Sounds like you had tracks switched on you several times, i wonder if that ever happens on those 24 hour old cold trail and catch tracks?

Since I started hound hunting in 2002 we have never had such good conditions the whole month of December. Every day was good except several days of -20. So yes scent conditions have been excellent so you can cold trail a lot of older tracks and end up with a lot of switched races. One problem may be to I run 3 to 6 dogs on a track and some of my dogs are pretty loose on a cold track and that probably causes a lot more bumping other cats.

[dhostetler]

During kill season I turn loose strictly on toms, once I get my tags filled I run anything, I prefer running females they put on a lot better race in my opinion.