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Post by hoosier on Nov 27, 2007 18:35:16 GMT -5
Went coyote calling behind the house at about 4:00 today and couldn't believe my eyes at about 5:00. A bobcat stalked its way to my position!!! I spotted him about 60 yards out and watched him make a SLOW stalk to 15 yards out where he sat on a moss covered log. I thought I had seen one here a couple of years ago, but, couldn't swear it...now I CAN swear it! AWESOME sight and I feel priveleged just to have seen it. A side note is the fact that while I could easily hear a squirrel hopping over 50 yards away this evening, I could NOT hear the cat as he made his way toward me on the same dry leaves. Talk about stalking machines...they are very stealthy to say the least! Thought would share this. Hoosier.
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Post by tobias on Nov 27, 2007 18:39:25 GMT -5
Awesome........post this on the EHD forum where the guy said there are none in IN!
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Post by hoosierhuntinful on Nov 28, 2007 0:46:23 GMT -5
Awesome........post this on the EHD forum where the guy said there are none in IN! and who said this? |
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Post by Decatur on Nov 28, 2007 9:01:08 GMT -5
That is way too cool!
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Post by danf on Nov 28, 2007 11:00:53 GMT -5
Congrats on the sighting hoosier! I've got a feeling it'll be a few years before I see any around here, but I'm hopefull. I know there's some in Montgomery County near Shades, and if you've got them in Owen, I'm sandwiched in between! Awesome........post this on the EHD forum where the guy said there are none in IN! I just posted a response to you in that forum. Don't want to get off-topic here, but I don't think *anyone* that has responded to that thread has said there are none in the state. |
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Post by matahone on Nov 28, 2007 19:39:14 GMT -5
Sweet. I am waiting to call one in where I hunt. I know there are a few around 'cause I have heard their screams at night.
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Post by hoosierhuntinful on Nov 28, 2007 22:06:20 GMT -5
i seen 1 bobcat bout 10-12 years ago at night in switzerland county going along a fence row.....unlike deer it wasnt mesmerized by my headlights and was gone in the blink of an eye.......ive also seen tracks in the snow that werent yotes....could be bobcat but im no expert on track identification
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Post by jrbhunter on Nov 29, 2007 17:53:26 GMT -5
I called in my first Indiana bobcat last week. He didn't creep in... he flat boogied across 300 yards of hayfield to stand less than 40 yards from us for a few minutes. Big difference in daytime and nighttime behavior I guess.
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Post by mullis56 on Nov 29, 2007 18:36:58 GMT -5
awesome, matt! i bet that was  |
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Post by hoosiertaxidermist on Dec 1, 2007 23:22:58 GMT -5
Bbcats eeverywhere there is good woodland and swamp cover mix in the state. I am currently mntg. one for the Pigeon River FWA guys and we usualy have 1 or 2 hit by cars in this part of the state every year. DNR keeps hush-hush as they are such a desired target for poaching. I mean someone even shot an Eagle recently and it was found on Pigeon River FWA. How many idiots would try to get a 'cat if they were told that there are so many.
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Post by duff on Dec 2, 2007 6:09:43 GMT -5
You are right. One guy in SE Indiana turned himself in last year only because the cat he shot had a radio collar on it. He didn't know it wasn't working anymore.
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Post by lonniephillips on Dec 2, 2007 17:44:25 GMT -5
you got to be kidding? A guy says there are none in Indiana? lol! ;D
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Post by jrbhunter on Dec 8, 2007 23:10:05 GMT -5
You are right. One guy in SE Indiana turned himself in last year only because the cat he shot had a radio collar on it. He didn't know it wasn't working anymore. He was in the Western Hemosphere of Indiana. And my county. |
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Post by duff on Dec 9, 2007 7:36:50 GMT -5
I was thinking switzerland Co, but wasn't sure. Is that Crawford Co.? Some where along the Ohio River counties anyways. Besides down there it ain't western Indiana unless you are in Evansville!!!!
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Post by Ahawkeye on Dec 19, 2007 0:50:32 GMT -5
Do you think they'll ever have a bobcat season? I'd love to have one mounted I'm not sure how I'd have it done though? there's always the "on the hounches reaching for a quail" mount or the walking broad side with the head turned at you but I guess I'll either have to go to KY or wait for who knows how long for a season here. I've only seen one it was in south west indiana where I hunt along a swamp surrounded by a hard wood forrest. Awsome looking animal!
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Post by jwkimber45 on Dec 19, 2007 9:46:29 GMT -5
AWESOME!!!! Now I want to go cat calling & shoot one with the Canon........JRB, did you get footage of that?  ? |
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Post by jimd46902 on Dec 21, 2007 0:06:42 GMT -5
What I think is funny is that 2 years ago... the Indiana DNR said bobcats did not exist in Indiana...LOL
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Post by jrbhunter on Dec 23, 2007 0:06:06 GMT -5
Josh, no footage on the cat. Cameraman didn't go along that night... called up half a dozen fox and the cat in his absense.
JimD, the IDNR has been rehabilitating/introducing/counting and tracking bobcats in Indiana for over 10 years. They've never denied that to my knowledge.
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Post by saltydog on Dec 23, 2007 12:13:23 GMT -5
My trail camera caught this Bobcat sneaking trough in switzerland co. In. I have him on film a few times.  |
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Post by freedomhunter on Dec 23, 2007 20:27:17 GMT -5
got one cam pic, and there has been more than one spotted on the farm I hunt this year, one with littlins. More of them every year.
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