Man fights off and kills lynx with bare hands

60 pound lynx is a load of crap... I trapped for many years... A female is 15-20 pounds and male is 20-25 pounds... I guess 60 pounds makes for a better story... No so impressive to say you slayed a 15 pound "wild cat" with your bare hands... Truthfully, I would be more concerned with an upset Yorkie!
 
hoytcanon said:
60 pound lynx is a load of crap... I trapped for many years... A female is 15-20 pounds and male is 20-25 pounds... I guess 60 pounds makes for a better story... No so impressive to say you slayed a 15 pound "wild cat" with your bare hands... Truthfully, I would be more concerned with an upset Yorkie!
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I agree with the weight criticism. I spent a lot of time on winter trapline, and the average large male is under 30 lbs.

However, we did weigh a particularly large Tom in the winter of 1980/81 in the BC Northern interior that went 39 lbs. Largest Lynx I've ever seen.

Still, I would not want to do hand-to-hand battle with any wild Cat.

Regards, Dave.
 
Wife had a female Blue Point Persian many years back weighed about 6 Ib, a very nasty tempered kitty. Trips to the vet wearing good leather gloves resulted in deep scratch's so wrestling a 20 Ib. Lynx would be a trip to the ER for sure. I would rather take my chances with a 110 Ib 60 yr old cougar anyday.;)
 
RT said:
We have lots of Lynx around here....every few years the rabbit population explodes and you see lots of lynx, probably 1 a week. When the rabbit population declines then I might see only 2-3 a year. I have seen a few that would be upwards of 60lbs...wouldnt surprise me at all.
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No you haven't
They're all leg and fur. Once you get the hide off of them, there is nothing to them
 
I'd like to know how he strangled the life out of it without getting his limbs and face torn to ribbons. Guess you have to be a trapper! Pesky house cats are nasty enough. LOL, if I was the guy in that last video I think I would have stomped the thing.
 
I'm no expert but Nat Geo says the average weight is between 22 to 44 lbs (10 to 20 kg) for Canada lynx. Now it doesn't mean that it's harmless either, a honey badger isn't really big but I wouldn't mess with one! lol
 
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Trapped lots of lynx in Canada and USA and only saw one free running.
As far as a 60lb lynx... no likely! 25lbs is a big one. Its hard to imagine the 'ghost of the forest' turning into the 'hunter of dogs'!!
 
60 lb lynx
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Horseshoe hares
" we never let them off a leash"
Yup its all good lmao

I got a 6 lb house cat I'd pay to see him try to pet let alone strangle. He'd come out looking like the runner up in a hatchet fight
 
We had a lynx raise a litter at our range this summer. She would sit along the treeline while we shot trap and skeet, so we had to run her off , so she didn't get hit.
 
brybenn said:
60 lb lynx
No slashes
Horseshoe hares
" we never let them off a leash"
Yup its all good lmao

I got a 6 lb house cat I'd pay to see him try to pet let alone strangle. He'd come out looking like the runner up in a hatchet fight
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Gotta wonder if the cat was sick or maybe suffering from malnutrition ?

Grizz
 
hoytcanon said:
60 pound lynx is a load of crap... I trapped for many years... A female is 15-20 pounds and male is 20-25 pounds... I guess 60 pounds makes for a better story... No so impressive to say you slayed a 15 pound "wild cat" with your bare hands... Truthfully, I would be more concerned with an upset Yorkie!
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Maybe where you live but they are considerably bigger out here. A mature female bobcat is mid 20s and male lynx will pretty easily go 35-40 pounds. I've seen a ton of them on the scale. 60 is pushing it for sure but I'd believe mid 40s. Friends of mine took a 45 pounder last year with their hounds.
 
sheephunter said:
Maybe where you live but they are considerably bigger out here. A mature female bobcat is mid 20s and male lynx will pretty easily go 35-40 pounds. I've seen a ton of them on the scale. 60 is pushing it for sure but I'd believe mid 40s. Friends of mine took a 45 pounder last year with their hounds.
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So you figure you have a beefy western sub-species? The biggest scaled lynx I have seen was 30 pouinds and that thing was a bruiser... Looked 75 pounds alive... But as is usual with lynx, you remove five pounds of hide and they loose "50 pounds" of body weight...
 
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