I Had To Shoot The Bobcat..

[jeff ward]

Know that i have the proper paper work i can tell what happened.
i was set up calling turkey when i heard a light foot step over my left shoulder( i was siting on a down hill slop) so i slowly turned my head around to see what i thought was a turkey sneaking in but to my suprise i was looking into the face of a bobcat at just inches away, so i then spun around and pointed my gun at it and hollerd GET OUT OF HERE but it just took a step back crouched and faced me again and i have no doubt that it was going to jump on me it was at the end of my gun barrell now so i knew i needed to shoot..
i actually hated to do it but i know i didnt have any other option, or time to try anything else.

it was a female that i weighed at 20 pounds.

[Mepperson]

Proper paperwork?

[jeff ward]

yes.. i had to talk with the g.w. and explain the situation and let him verify my story. and then he gave me the o.k. and a card proveing that i could keep the animal.

[gwhilikerz]

I had to do the same thing many years ago with a red fox that turned out to be rabid. Game wardens asked me what happened, took the fox for testing, and cleared everything. ( I had just enough time to swing my shotgun and fire as the fox ran into the barrel).

[deadaim]

had a coyote run right at me last late muzzeloader season while I was sitting in the woods. It came in with another ,when I shot at one it ran off and the other one ran right at me with fangs and its hair raised up. I dont think I ever reloaded a muzzeloader that fast in my life LOL shot him at ten yards. I think it had something wrong with it because it had no fear of me whatsoever...

[wingtipsdown]

You mean there was actually something left.
Turkey loads at "it was at the end of my gun barrell"?

[jeff ward]

there is a 2 inch hole straight threw the neck and out its back. i would like to have it mounted but i dont know if a hole that big can be fixed.
the shot didnt have time to expand at point blank range.
i have pics if i can fiqure out how to post them i will, or if someone would give me there email i could send them and they could post for me..

[arshooter]

thats an odd story bobcats realize when they run across a human and will turn and run..as will a yote if it spots you and my sucspicions say cat is a lil more weary than a yote..doubt very seriously the lil cat was gonna pounce you ...heck aint no bobcat gonna try to take a grown man...been there seen em, seen yotes come in to calls and run also..but yote are a lil more easy..good story to tell a co to kill a cat though give ya that..

[jeff ward]

it just amazes me how some people know everything, even if they wernt there or know the person telling what happened !!!
the last thing i wanted to do was shoot the cat...

[Valley Station]

Jeff,
Taxidermist shouldn't have no problem with a 2" hole. Just a matter of sewing it up.Might want to take into consideration location of entry hole relative to "show side" of mount. I assume she had shed her winter coat. Will not be as nice with summer coat , but, will be better than going to waste.

[jeff ward]

the hole is in the front (neck)..
her coat isnt as pretty as most ive seen but with what happened i have to have something done with her..

[WBBP]

Good Lord, I don't know Jeff, but he deserves the benefit of the doubt. It is arrogant to question someone based on a total lack of information.

[cobbhunts]

Good Lord, I don't know Jeff, but he deserves the benefit of the doubt. It is arrogant to question someone based on a total lack of information.

I'm with you. If you weren't there, who are you to question it. I personally have never seen an aggresive bobcat, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't happen. If the GW/CO verified it then go with it. I would get it mounted, a good taxi can fix it up nice for ya.

[skin_dog1]

I'm with you. If you weren't there, who are you to question it. I personally have never seen an aggresive bobcat, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't happen. If the GW/CO verified it then go with it. I would get it mounted, a good taxi can fix it up nice for ya.Don't you guy know you can't post anything here without someone questioning your integrity. I hope Jesus isn't a member, no telling who'd be the first to call him a liar!

[gwhilikerz]

Some people just have to make an ars out of themselves

[arshooter]

okie guys someone else come up with a story that 20 pound bobcat was gonna attack you nope wasnt tryin to be an ass but what the heck i will be now how easy would be to kill a 20 pound cat and tell a co that it was gonna kill me !!!good grief predator hunt alil and you will figure it out..when its legal of course...now thats a smartass..

[gwhilikerz]

Bobcat Attacks Hiker

From Yahoo News 15 th July 2002

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A bobcat attacked a hiker at a state nature reserve, charged a park ranger's truck and lunged at another ranger before it was killed, authorities said. They suspect the cat was rabid.

A wildlife officer fatally shot the cat Sunday as it hung from a ranger's arm, officials said.

"This is extremely unusual behavior. They usually flee at the sight of a person," said wildlife commission Lt. Jeff Gier. He said bobcats hunt at night and are rarely seen during the day.

Todd Long, 37, was hiking at Rock Springs Run State Reserve when he said he heard "a shrill meow" and saw a bobcat poised to attack. Long said he put up his arms to deflect the cat, but instead caught the 35-pound animal.

"Here I am holding this thing and shaking it, and finally realizing that it's not doing any good," Long said, "so I threw it in the bushes."

The cat, as big as a medium-sized dog, pounced again minutes later and Long said he hit him about a dozen times with a stick, breaking the stick into pieces.

He walked a couple of miles to find a ranger, and the pair returned in a truck. The cat then attacked the vehicle and tried to get in the cab, clawing the grill and rear bumper.

Lt. Laura DeWald, of the Department of Environmental Protection, and Officer John Giles of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, arrived with a pistol and a 12-gauge shotgun.

The cat jumped on DeWald after she fired three or four shots. Giles then killed the animal as it hung from her arm.

Long and DeWald were taken to Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford for treatment and testing.
© Yahoo News, 15 th July 2002

also :
Report from Chris Smith
Bobcat Attack of Human May be First in Minnesota

Cass County woman not seriously hurt

By Chris Niskanen, Outdoors Editor in the (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020715/ap_on_re_us/bobcat_attack_1)Pioneer Plant (http://www.pioneerplanet.com/) 21 th July 2000 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020715/ap_on_re_us/bobcat_attack_1)

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[arshooter]

exactly my point extremely odd behavior...

[cobbhunts]

exactly my point extremely odd behavior...

.............................................But it has happened.