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Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on January 07, 2017, 01:25 PM:
No one has posted in this room for a while so I thought I'd post an old picture of a big ol' bobcat I got back in the good old days.
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd162/pk1_04/17368_107055102639772_3629662_n_zps57kcljcd.jpg
[ January 07, 2017, 01:28 PM: Message edited by: Moe ]
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 07, 2017, 03:50 PM:
Yes, thanks for posting, the good days.
I've probably killed around a hundred bobcat, many just like in the photo. I probably took a picture of less than a dozen, if that? Just never took the time, maybe didn't have a camera, also wasn't such a big deal. The big ones, I regret not snapping, even the little ones.
One time, it was at night and we called a cat, I could see him clearly, but until I walked out, I couldn't tell what a little kitten it was. I'm not kidding, jackrabbit size, if that?
Other times, and it's only happened twice to me, EVER, a triple on cats! Now that should have been an occasion for snapping a photo. However, in one case, we were lost in a juniper forest with no landmarks and it was raining, the ground on that butte was hardpan and we couldn't even retrace our footprints. Damned near panic set until we hit a barbed wire fence and followed it to the road, winding up within sight of the truck, about a half a mile away. I can remember the relief like it was yesterday, but as usual, no time for pictures.
Now is the time, for regrets, I have a few.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: now, imagine two guys with a spotlight and an automotive battery and a rifle and dragging three bobcats, middle of the night, and it's raining, totally lost sense of direction, very dark, no moon nothing to orientate us. To this day, I don't know why we turned right at the fence instead of left? Near Reserve, New Mexico.
edit: this is one occasion where I have always advised people that when they won't come in....go get them! It's amazing how many cats you can walk up on. Maybe we shouldn't tell, I don't know?
[ January 07, 2017, 04:02 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on January 07, 2017, 08:43 PM:
I made a triple on bobcats one night near the Colorado River. We set up to call a wash filled with Joshua trees with a steep hill behind us. We were watching the wash but I swept the light across the hill and picked up eyes. I killed the cat and kept calling. Within a minute or two another cat came in sight and I killed that one too. Then another one. They were all laying less then 10 yards apart. All were adults. We also killed 5 coyotes that night. I can drive to that spot with no trouble after all these years.
Back in those days cats were worth 15 points and coyotes were 7 points. 1 bobcat beat 2 coyotes. Then they changed it to 8 points for a coyote. Hard to argue that one.
These days cats are likely to get a pass by me.
Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on January 07, 2017, 08:50 PM:
Here's another old picture. These cats were taken in an area closed to hunting now. I've always liked this pic.
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd162/pk1_04/17368_107055092639773_100000058482787_186160_1429378_n.jpg
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on January 08, 2017, 06:56 AM:
Ok..............What is that THING in the photo between the fly-fisher-gal and the flounder / halibut ????
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 08, 2017, 09:15 AM:
Don't know about that, but damn! that was a hell of a nice snake!
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on January 08, 2017, 09:31 AM:
Koko....That "thing" is what makes calling so exciting. You never know what you may call in.
I don't know what it is about this site but you guys aren't supposed to have access to my entire library. But since I took the porn out I guess it's okay......
Posted by UTcaller (Member # 8) on January 08, 2017, 10:24 AM:
Yeah nice cat moe . I don't see many bobcats here in Utah. I have called in a few and trapped a few but not many. But hunting in Nevada is another story. We have called quite a few and have had to just watch them come in and slink away.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 08, 2017, 01:20 PM:
And yet, Chad. Utah is the place where I actually called in more cats that anywhere. I had five in front of me, and they were on a slight uphill, should have been easy pickings, but only managed one of the bunch. Must have been (who knows) mom and adult kits, one female and a bunch of males chasing her? Who knows? They sure scattered, never really figured out how they all got away so fast? Not like a cat, usually.
Good hunting. El Bee
PS Moe, if it makes you feel better, I stopped scrolling after those naked shots of that lady with the fish. lol
(just kidding)
Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on January 08, 2017, 09:50 PM:
Like Leonard I've called in a bunch of bobcats in Utah. I'll admit it was a long time ago back when no one else was calling there.
I'd like to know when Nevada put bobcats off limits for non residents. Seems like back in the early to mid sixties they were legal there. Of course at that time you didn't need a hunting license for coyotes, bobcats and cougars in California either.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 09, 2017, 08:05 AM:
Nevada might have changed to resident only for bobcat in 198? Whenever it was, it has pissed me off ever since. A chickenshit regulation. It only benefited about three locals that trap 400 cats every year.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by UTcaller (Member # 8) on January 09, 2017, 08:55 AM:
Wow 4 duplicate posts. You really must be missed about that Nevada law.lol
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 09, 2017, 09:36 AM:
Don't know how that happened except I was in the control panel at the time, doing cleanup stuff. That's the thanks I get! But, I can take care of it. No harm done.
Let's blame Danny. For making me get off my butt and do some housekeeping. No?
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: see? all gone!
[ January 09, 2017, 09:37 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on January 09, 2017, 09:44 AM:
I looked it up and Utah started regulating bobcats somewhere in the early 70's. I hunted there in the 60's and calling was highly productive especially for bobcats.
I also called a lot of bobcats in Nevada in places that are closed to hunting nowdays. I was living and working in Las Vegas and would go calling in whatever spare time I had. There were a lot of bobcats down near the river. I had a room I rented by the week about a block away from the old Golden Nugget. That place is long gone as is the old Golden Nugget. Rather than go drinking after work I'd go calling. Easy pickings.
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on January 09, 2017, 09:49 AM:
Moe I really enjoyed your album my favorite is you with two coyotes on the ground above them a cat on the rock great photo ! Thanks
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 09, 2017, 11:07 AM:
I had a photo of a bobcat and he was laying across a two track, both sides, easily. Huge cat! Right on the border, between Columbus and El Paso.
I had that photo in the glove box of my old '69 Avacado Datsun. Great little truck! I never cleaned out the glove box when I traded it in, in 1975. Anybody would be impressed, to this day, the biggest cat, other than a lion that I have ever killed. I was still using my 270, back then, it was in the pic.
That's all I have is memories now, very little photographic memorabilia.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on January 10, 2017, 09:56 PM:
Paul....thanks. Everyone who has hunted California knows about where that spot is. Made for a great picture.
Tawnoper likes to tease me about my Buddy Holly glasses. I had lived in Taiwan and got those glasses there. Switched to wire frames not long after that.
Leonard.....Yeah,I kept a stack of hunting pictures in the glove box of my old '62 Ranchero, my old hunting rig. I really didn't have anything to steal and unless there was a rifle in the truck I didn't even bother to lock it and then never let it out of my sight. One night someone opened up the glove box and stole every picture I had. All critter pictures taken with my Kodak Instamatic. Damn.....
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on January 11, 2017, 05:04 AM:
Moe, very cool pics!
BTW, if you go to your Photobucket library, you should be able to set it to "private". That will allow us to only see the one photo you linked from it...
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on January 11, 2017, 07:10 AM:
Awwwww...........Why'd ya go and tell him that ????
Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on January 11, 2017, 08:30 PM:
Well, hell. Now everyone has seen what I have in photobucket. But I have a lot more pics in my laptop.
I'll do the privacy thing but this is the only site were that has happened.
I really don't post a lot of pictures any more. A coyote is a coyote and a bobcat is a bobcat. You guys have seen as many and maybe more than I have.
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