At 2:35 this morning the phone rang. My daughter is on the line telling me she shot a bobcat with her Winchester 1000X while it was trying to get into one of her rabbit cages. She didn't know what it was until after she shot it as she could only see the chest area of the cat. She told me it ran out of the shed, around her garage and up the side of the hill. She told me she heard it scream a couple of times there and was afraid it may come back. I grabbed my hound and a shotgun, and when I got there the hound took the trail. Followed it out behind her garage and at the bottom of the hill there lay the bobcat. Stone dead. A 21 lb. young male but in poor condition due to two missing toes on it right front paw. The paw was still swollen and must have impeded the cats hunting ability quite a bit. The one pellet, a Beeman Silver Jet that I gave her as she was out of Crow Magnums, entered the cat's chest, clipping a rib, going thru both lungs and logging against the ribs on the far side. This is the first animal that I ever seen shot with a Silver Jet pellet. Pretty impressive penetration. The bobcat didn't travel over 65 yards after being hit. Lawdog
