Pays to have backup

[Wolfer]

Alternative weapons season her in MO. I killed a 2 yr old doe Sunday with my 50 cal inline which left me with one tag. When I left the house this morning both of my cats went with me as they often do. They're mousing around in the rotten dead treetops and the little kitty catches one. She runs up the hill behind me with it.

A few minutes go by and here she comes with a bobcat on her tail. She makes it up a tree about 25 yds from me. The bobcat turns around and starts back up the hill. My muzzleloader misfired 3 snaps ( bad primer I guess ) so I grabbed the 45.
I'm glad it worked, last resort was my knife..

[Hamish]

Good deal! One less wanton killer in the woods,,,

[smoked turkey]

Double good job. Sounds like you were a good boy scout who was prepared. Very nice trophy bobcat you took. I haven't made it out yet for alternate season. Hopefully Friday.

[skeettx]

WHEW!! T'was a lot of snaps
Well done
Mike

[richhodg66]

Tell little kitty she has eight left now.

I haven't seen a bob cat here in quite a while. Seems like I used to see a few during every deer season. Never gave much thought to shooting one, though I'm sure not opposed to it. Now that I liv out in the sticks, Coyotes get shot at if I have something close at hand that shoots. Racoons are the same, guess bobcats should join that list.

[Wolfer]

Until 10/15 years ago I hadent seen more than three in my life. In the last few years Ive killed 5 and called up two more that I couldn't close the deal on. Our local turkey population is way down. I suspect the surge in cats has something to do with that.

[HollowPoint]

Nice going. Most of the predators I've put down have been with my 1911 Kimber 45; not because I'm any kind of great predator hunter, it's because during my bumbling around in the sticks I happened to spook up more predators than I've ever been able to intentionally call in.

I do like to predator hunt but I'm not very good at it. I can count all the predators I've ever attempted to call in on the fingers of both hands and still have a couple of fingers left over. I've lost count all the ones I've spooked up and shot with my .45. It's just that bringing that side arm up to the firing position was always faster than bringing my rifle into play.

HollowPoint

[Rick R]

Nice!

I saw the first one I’ve ever seen while hunting this year. A young one walked by 20 yards from my deer blind during archery season. My male cat who protects the property purrimeter is 16 pounds of Tomcat and about 30% bigger so I never even thought about shooting.

[Wolfer]

My hunting buddy mentioned a possible scenario. What if the cat had ran back and jumped in my lap? Well, I said this story would have been a lot more exciting.

[ranchman]

Nice Bob-cat, 10-4 on the "pays to have back-up" part too

I always keep a sixgun along; if trapping, scouting huntin' areas, riding pastures by the cows, even doing field-work around the farm, you just never know when you'll need something. My six-gun has come in handy more than once!

[centershot]

My hunting buddy mentioned a possible scenario. What if the cat had ran back and jumped in my lap? Well, I said this story would have been a lot more exciting.

OMG!!!

[BarkEater]

Fantastic...definitely good to have back up...Congrats on a nice cat.
Mike

[TXGunNut]

Not many kitties where I hunt but there are many other good reasons for having a backup, namely hogs. This season it's been my EDC .45ACP but I like to tote a .45 Colt Ruger when I can. Nice looking old Colt, well played!

[Wolfer]

Yesterday afternoon I was about 100 yds from where the previous incident took place. Wasn't seeing any deer so I squeaked a few times on my Burnham Bros mini-blaster. This came running in. The old smoke pole went bang this time.

[TXGunNut]

Good job, nice kitty!

[centershot]

Yup, definitely a cat problem in SW Missouri. We should all drive over and pitch in to help Wolfer out! Road trip anyone??