Bobcat hunting tips

[AmericanFreeBird]

I have a bobcat that likes to come by every now and then and kill my chickens, cats etc. I believe they are considered varmints in my state which means that you can hunt them year round.

Does anyone have any tips or techniques suggestions for bagging this lil critter? I've never hunted any type of cat and I'm not sure if there are any tricks that'll make it easier to find him when I've got a rifle in hand.

Any help would be much appreciated.

AFB

 

[Al Thompson]

Take a post hole digger and dig a hole about 4 feet deep, close to your chicken house. This is where you'll shoot him, so keep down range in mind. Get some cheap canned cat food or sardines. In the evening open cans and drop down hole. Watch hole. Shoot when cat appears.

BTW, I'd use a shotgun with #4 buck if it were me.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Bobcats are very curious. When trapping, a good way to lure them in is with some raw meat inside an enclosure made from tree branches and a feather tied above it that will flutter in the wind.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

A trapper friend of mine told me that he uses an aluminum pit tin instead of the feather. Seems, being cats, they just can't help batting the thing around a bit.

 

[4v50 Gary]

NVD attached to Ruger 10/22. Lung shot. Let it go away and die elsewhere.

 

[444]

I do some night varmint hunting. I am trying to call coyotes. I have no desire to shoot a bobcat. I find that bobcats are either so curious that they have no sense or they are one of the easiest animals to call out there. I have been driving down a road (this is a dirt road 50 miles from the nearest house) and see a set of eyes. I stop the truck and blow a varmint call. A bobcat will come right in to within 10 yards, and this is with the truck running, the doors open the interior lights on and two guys standing there watching it. It seems like once they hear that call, they can't resist it.
A buddy of mine who hunts primarily for bobcats tells me that the ultimate tool for bobcat hunting is a tape of a common housecat.

Based on that, I would try calling in and around the immediate area. This may not be the way to get one particular bobcat that you are trying to get right at your house, but it might be fun to try.

 

[coldshot03/04]

Wow! I have got to try some of this stuff. I hate cats period.

 

[AmericanFreeBird]

Well, you know it's funny 'bout the recording of a house cat. My friend at work said I should just go to the Humane Soc. and get (these are his words now) ... a "Bait Cat" and put him in one of those have-a-hart traps so he yowls all night and wait.

Hmmmm.

 

[Art Eatman]

FreeBird, he already HAS chickens for bait. The problem is getting Mr. Robert Cat to show up when it's convenient for shooting, not convenient for cats.

A large HavAHart trap could probably work. Makes for an easy coup de grace, too. Set it by the chicken pen and bait it with leftover meat. Heck, a piece of rag with bacon grease on it is very good bait.

From time to time I've done the rag-bait bit. Put out two or three, just wired to a mesquite bush or a fence. I regularly see bobcat and lion tracks after their checking it out. I've just been too lazy to bother to hunt...

Art

 

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I like Al's Idea with the post hole digger...prolly work for other critters.

Ok since this thread started I gotta a know something. I 'm in the city and I'm adjacent to a very busy 4 lane street. behind my apt is a heavily wooded ravine, beyond is a subdivision. I have all kinds of critters, including 3 nice deer this past fall when the snow came. Not long ago a bear was tranquilized--Got the picture?

Does a Bobcat sound like a siamese cat on steroids when the passion hits? I heard this 'chilling' cat like sound the other evening. Is this possible?

And people wonder why I CCW...

 

[Art Eatman]

"Does a Bobcat sound like a siamese cat on steroids when the passion hits?"

Could be. The only bobcat I ever heard was all frustrated by the cactus pads a woodrat had drug up to protect its nest. A very hoarse "rowrr" sound, but quite loud.

, Art

 

[sm]

Third floor apt,after my attorney arrives--" I was in fear of my life"

" and yes officer I always keep a bucket of KFC on the back deck"
(psst attorney get that thing to a taxadermist will ya?)

new thread " 1911 for bobcats?" I can reply " worked for me"

that is some noise I swear...