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Offline FourBee

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Seen In a Dead Run
« on: April 05, 2009, 12:56:16 AM »
Wow !  Wish you could have seen this Bobcat "on the heels of a deer" leaping  over a bobwire fence as easily as did the deer ahead of him.   These critters are not just a nice pretty fur~piece wandering around in the wild.    They are, Sure Nuff, a deadly Predator.   :o :o :o
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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2009, 02:07:23 AM »
The bobcats I've seen around here are killing machines. I've seen no deer chases, but I have heard the rabbit cries and the absence of rabbits in the morning mist. Dont think they like chicken,  ;D  we have not had a bobcat attack a chicken yet. Did see some scratch marks on a coup a while back!

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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2009, 05:46:40 AM »
"Dont think they like chicken...  ;D "    :o, glad you added the  ;D

Last ADC Bobcat I hunted down and killed for a rancher was because it had killed 200 of his fryer chickens over a few night period.

Huge female taken at 2 AM by moon light, shot back of the head at about 75 yards going away through the sagebrush with my Bullberry 17HMR carbine (CCI TNT's).

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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2009, 06:45:11 AM »
Great shot!

yea, I was attempting humor there!

I forgot,

So bobcats are like housecats(feral) in that they will just kill for the fun of it! 200 chickens in a few nights!!
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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2009, 05:06:47 PM »
Ladobe; that's a nice looking cat.   Good shootin'.    "2a.m"., now that'll make an old man out of ya.  ;D
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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2009, 09:55:16 PM »
OS - This one obviously was on a killing rampage and didn't eat very many of the chickens.   It also killed a couple of the family dogs that run the ranch BTW.   Rancher and his two sons had tried for it a couple of nights at the coop but never scored.   Took about 6 hours to find the right one in the dark (gave 3 a free pass before seeing it).    She was running flat out so I didn't have time to switch guns from the Hummer I was shooting jacks with when I saw her.   It did the job because of its extreme accuracy, but it's not my "go to" for medium to large predators.  She was a big girl, as heavy as most of the male coyotes in that same area.

FB - I did all of the ADC for this ranch at night, usually starting about 8 PM and running to day break when ranch activity started.   Picked night hunting there because I was after the thousands of jack rabbits that destroyed about 1/3 of his crops every year (I could usually shoot about 200 a night - only 1/10th that many during the daytime); that was a more productive time to call in the predators with no activity on the property, so I could get a bunch closer to them without spooking them to be sure I was taking the exact ones the rancher wanted culled, etc; plus I just love to be out in the wilds at night alone.   I wasn't alone this night though - had another hunter with me.   Unless Donny called me with an emergency, I usually picked nights with clear skies lit by a half to full moon to shoot his place.   That was plenty of light to shoot to about 125 yards with good optics.   Since here it is legal to spotlight at night for non game animals I also had both truck scope mounted spots and a portable scope mounted spot for the night walks in his fields.   

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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2009, 03:33:08 AM »
Been thinking of getting a scopelight like those! What kind of distance will they reach for shooting and do you use the red filter? Can you reccomend a brand and model ?
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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2009, 07:06:55 AM »
These happen to be Optronics Night Blasters bought many years ago.   They can still be bought on-line several places and now they have many newer models.   The one on the carbine in the pictures is a self contained narrow beam 100 yard model with a battery pack you wear on your belt, on the XP-100 is a 350 yard model and I also have a 250 yard model that also plugs into the truck same as the 350.   The 100's battery can be recharged both on 120VAC and off the vehicles 12 VDC.   Makes it real handy to just plug it in while traveling between jump off places for night stalks to keep it "topped off".   Longer reange models are now available with these batterey packs too.   All three have forestock velro mounted switches to turn them on/off with your off hand.   I like the 350 the best because it has an adjustable blue light beam that can be instantly tailored to fit every situation.   It will pick up eye flash way, way past 350 yards and literally turn night into day.   The best for identifying species with anarrow beam a long ways away, but can be turned to wide angle in a flash for a pred on the run.   The red lenses are personal choice and would depend on the situation/preds where hunting.   I never had any problems by not using them most of the time, but they would be great for preds that are real spooky.   There are other more expensive scope spotlights out there... a pard uses a Lightforce Striker.    Nice light (although big and bulky), but at $250+ the Optronics at $50 or less are a steal and do the job just fine.   My main use when I bought these was to do night time jack and badger ADC for ranchers/farmers, not mainly for predators.   I had always just spotlighted predators with hand held spots that plug into the truck.  These do work better for preds though as it frees up both hands (important when you only call them with mouth calls like I do) and keeps the firearm on target as you follow it in.

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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2009, 07:36:15 AM »
Great information, Thanks! I have some coyotes behind my place that I cant get a shot at during the day! They do a lot of howling and yapping at night. Thinking the light may be the way to go.
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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2009, 04:47:40 AM »
Ladobe...you would be #1 and do my heart glad 8)

Back to those Bobcats though...I have an old book (Varmint and Crow hunters bible by Bert Popowski) and he dedicated quite a chapter to the Bobcat. They are a very efficient predator even on deer size game.

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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2009, 07:44:00 PM »
Not too many of us old P & V hunters still around that haven't owned and read that book.   I got mine in the mid 60's when in high school.   It turned up again roughly 15 years ago at my folks house and they sent it to me, so I read it again and then passed it on.   Yes the kitties are excellent predators, are especially hard on all species of game birds but they do also take some deer.   I've seen them jump much higher than my head to catch flushing pheasants.

This spring I had a beautiful big male living in my back yard for a couple of months at the house I just moved out of yesterday.   He got so used to me that he would walk right up to me almost close enough to kick in the early mornings if I went out, give me a disinterested long stare and then go about his business.   He was after all the cottontails, quail and doves that lived on my place year round because I feed them.   
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Re: Seen In a Dead Run
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2009, 10:29:06 AM »
Excellent shooting, great story and my personal favorite carbine. My next custom job is probably going to have to be a HMR for my sons TC.