Why hunt bobcats?

[PeakXV]

They're bloody hard to spot in the woods to be sure. I surprised one last autumn on a logging trail ..... first & probably last time for that. Apparently they're not nearly as scarce as they might appear (click on the link below for a good read/info on the 'wood ghost'):

The "wood ghost" has persisted because it has made a home in soggy swamplands, throughout the arid Southwest, even amid Midwestern farmland. It is, in essence, all around us -- somewhere between 700,000 and 1.5 million of them, although its reclusive nature makes a census difficult. Even naturalists who study the creature may go a lifetime without spotting one.

http://www.carnivoraforum.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=feline&thread=900&page=1#13871

 

[CROWCA]

Why hunt anything?????????????? I have seen one when I was just a lad near suable beach
dump! I would pull the pin if offered to me by the hunting Gods!!!!

 

[Until the Angels Fall]

someday if i see a momma bobcat and two kits i'll shoot them.

Would make a dandy set of toque and mitts.

if something is legal to do who cares?

hahaha!!!

 

[M1shooter]

I just don't get it.

Why hunt bobcats?

I see on a BC website some guy with a little bobcat he shot.

There aren't even that many of them, they reproduce slowly and there isn't much to eat on them.

I'm surprised there's even a season.

Who would eat a cat???

 

[PeakXV]

Not nearly as many as would eat a pussy. Badabing!

 

[horshur]

spotted cats are worth money when prime...they can be worth over 400 bucks depending how they grade and the market.

 

[stovepipe699]

Why not hunt bobcats?

 

[7mmlefty]

I just don't get it.

Why hunt bobcats?

I see on a BC website some guy with a little bobcat he shot.

There aren't even that many of them, they reproduce slowly and there isn't much to eat on them.

I'm surprised there's even a season.

Ask a northern Canadian trapper... who has limited job opportunity and has to feed his family... The cats are eaten by northern people when there is no moose.
The tender white flesh is quite tasty I hear. Their numbers also fluctuate with the rabbit cycles, so some years theres more than other years.

I think in the very vast Canadian wilderness, man takes very few. Mother nature kills much more.

 

[Pathfinder]

As mentioned...no go for us her ein ON unless you are a trapper.

IF you have a tag in your own province and if you are good enough or lucky enough to have the drop on one go ahead . Very good hunters and more likely to operate a night but I have seen a few in the day. Beautiful animal. Btw there was a Rabbit picture one minue before the Lynx came by.

 

[PeakXV]

Nice Pic, Pathfinder. I think it heard the click, by the angle of it's right ear. What kind of camera unit do yo have?

 

[Pathfinder]

That was A Moultrie D-40 Flash type camera.....I havent used it since a bear got to it

 

[PeakXV]

That looks like a good sized cat. The one I walked up on was no bigger than a house cat, maybe smaller. In fact, I thought it was a domestic cat until I saw the tail.

 

[Boomer]

I would think that hunting bobcats or lynx would be extremely challenging. Therein lies another reason to hunt them; because the difficulty of the challenge makes success very satisfying.