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Offline onecoyote

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Largest bobcat and gray fox?
« on: August 21, 2006, 08:42:46 AM »
I've seen a 12 lb gray fox, I'm sure they get a little bigger. Bobcats, I've killed them in the 30+ class but I hear the record comes from Colorado at 67 lbs I believe. Anyone with other information?
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Re: Largest bobcat and gray fox?
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2006, 05:40:41 PM »
A 12lb grey is pretty decent sized. I've killed a few that pushed 15lbs, but it's rare. I've killed reds in the 15-16lb range, with a very few that 17-18lbs.

My biggest bobcat to date was just over 39lbs, but a good friend of mine traps, and has caught a lot of bobcats over 40lbs. The biggest one I've ever personally seen he caught in a snare, and it weighed just over 53lbs.

I read an old newspaper article somewhere on the net one time that I'm thinking was printed around 1930 or so that said a 76lb bobcat was killed in PA if my memory serves me right.

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Re: Largest bobcat and gray fox?
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2006, 04:18:23 AM »
A 79lb bobcat is a short tailed mt lion lol.
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Re: Largest bobcat and gray fox?
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2006, 12:32:21 PM »

My heaviest Bob Cat weighed 52 pounds, Never bothered to weigh a fox of either species so i cant comment. The cat was cought in the Jemez Mountains, The next heaviest Bob Cat was cought in the Burro Mt.s and he weighed 49 pounds.
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Re: Largest bobcat and gray fox?
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2006, 02:41:08 PM »
never have checked the weight on the Bobs.and the foxes have never been very big.I do cary a scale with me,But never have used it.
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