Friday night, I thought I'd go out and feed before the coldfront came in.

I called for about 10 minutes, waited about 5 minutes and this beauty came out.
I have been hunting for almost 50 years, and this is the biggest and prettiest I have ever seen.
I've only killed three because they are so handsome, but this one had real long hair. with a big body. Its always harder to tell in the pictures how big they are. My taxidermist said it was one of the biggest he would ever mount. We guessed it at about 33-35 lbs

Tikka T3 243 Win insured that the new fawns will be safer.

As I post this, temperature has dropped 20 degrees from last night.

Great job! Wonder if it was the same one that tried to jump on me???

Nice cat, Tom! :D

Did you check it for a grazing scar on the chest? :p

Great job! Wonder if it was the same one that tried to jump on me???I think that cat awaits your return! You made him mad.
ON our place, you might call up 50 coyotes to every one cat.
I was excited.

Congrats Tom, that is a pretty kitty! What was the cat's reaction at the shot? Drop right there, or jump 20' in the air?!!

Congrats Tom, that is a pretty kitty! What was the cat's reaction at the shot? Drop right there, or jump 20' in the air?!!
Shawn,
He was only 50 yards away. He dropped straight down. 95 grain partition didn't do as much damage as you would think. That was good, since I'm having it mounted.
Our cats are usually short haired and skinnier. He was real purdy!
We had a front blow through and another one coming in later in the week. How is it up there in the cool air?

Tom,
It's 11F at the moment, still getting into single digits at night, but it was nice and warm today, mid-30's I think. Didn't enjoy it as much as I should have - honey-do's and all, and some work, and not the fun kind (the kind you get paid for :p).

One of my older brothers got a bobcat when I was too young to really remember it, and had it mounted, with arched back, snarling. Taxidermy wasn't the best back then, but still neat. I recall that it too was a rather large one, around 35 lbs, like yours. I've only seen one other, which was dispatched on a whitetail hunt by one of my hunting partners about 8 years ago and the 30-06 really buggered it up.

Sounds like that 243 really did the trick on it! I hope you post a pic when you get the mount back!

Nice cat Tom!

Congratulations! That will make a beautiful mount.

Friday night, I thought I'd go out and feed before the coldfront came in.

I called for about 10 minutes, waited about 5 minutes and this beauty came out.
I have been hunting for almost 50 years, and this is the biggest and prettiest I have ever seen.
I've only killed three because they are so handsome, but this one had real long hair. with a big body. Its always harder to tell in the pictures how big they are. My taxidermist said it was one of the biggest he would ever mount. We guessed it at about 33-35 lbs

Tikka T3 243 Win insured that the new fawns will be safer.

As I post this, temperature has dropped 20 degrees from last night.

That is a nice shot. While most of my hunting was either in North or West Texas, one of the larges Bobcats I have ever seen was inside the Houston, Texas city limits. It was crossing Highway 6 about a mile north of I-10 at night going east into the Federal Reservoir and Bear Creek Park area.

That was about 15 years ago but the area remains somewhat wild despite the extreme development there. The area is managed by the Army Corps of Engineers and Harris County.

I wonder how many soccer moms do not know about that?

That is a nice shot. While most of my hunting was either in North or West Texas, one of the larges Bobcats I have ever seen was inside the Houston, Texas city limits. It was crossing Highway 6 about a mile north of I-10 at night going east into the Federal Reservoir and Bear Creek Park area.

That was about 15 years ago but the area remains somewhat wild despite the extreme development there. The area is managed by the Army Corps of Engineers and Harris County.

I wonder how many soccer moms do not know about that?
I've often wondered if there are more of them in East Texas or West Texas, North or South Texas?

They are so pretty and reclusive that I still get excited when I see one. That will be the last one I ever shoot. There are so many coyotes to kill, I don't need another cat for the wall and I just hate to kill them for nothing.
Good Luck

Good looking kitty cat!