OK I am looking to this board again for some education!! Hopefully some of you folks can point me in the right direction.
For starters this has been a crazy year, I got laid off from my job of 8 years on July 5th, but that was nothing compared to what was coming later...July 28th my mother passed away, one day before her 72nd Birthday. Then August 28th or 29th (exact time has never been clarified), my wifes 2 Brothers, 1 Sister, 2 Nieces, and 2 Nephews were murdered in Brunswick, Georgia, I am sure some of you may have seen it on the news... They tagged it as the Brunswick Massacre. So, needless to say, I have not had much time for hunting. I did finally get out for a little while on November 12th and finally scored my first ever called in Coyote, I actually called in 2, but only got a shot at 1. He was a yearling male, he made the mistake of showing himself front on, about 65 yards away from me, and about 20 feet from my whirling Woodpecker, a 60g Vmax from my r-15 droppped him right in his tracks. I am happy to say, my r-15 and I both scored our first at the same time
OK now that all the background is out there, I will get to the Bobcat question.
I Live in North Peoria, and have been hunting in an area south of Lake Pleasant, that is heavily populated with Coyotes, but I have never seen anything that I would think is a Bobcat track (Hard to tell, it is real sandy where I hunt).
My question is, what would lead you to think an area has Bobcats in it, other than just calling one in? Are there any indicators besides tracks that would make you think an area is more likely to hold a Bobcat?
Thanks in advance for any guidance, now that I have finally gotten a coyote, I am getting greedy, it has always been one of my goals to get a Bobcat, and I would like to concentrate on areas where one is more likely to be, to increase my chances of getting one.
Since I am currently unemployed, and after the last couple months things will probably never be "normal" again...but things are getting a little better, I am able to travel reasonable distances to hunt, but would like to feel like I at least have a snowballs chance of getting a cat
Disclaimer: I am not E-Scouting or looking for areas that hold cats, just trying to get hints on how a person would identify one area as being more "catty" than another.
Thanks
Mark
For starters this has been a crazy year, I got laid off from my job of 8 years on July 5th, but that was nothing compared to what was coming later...July 28th my mother passed away, one day before her 72nd Birthday. Then August 28th or 29th (exact time has never been clarified), my wifes 2 Brothers, 1 Sister, 2 Nieces, and 2 Nephews were murdered in Brunswick, Georgia, I am sure some of you may have seen it on the news... They tagged it as the Brunswick Massacre. So, needless to say, I have not had much time for hunting. I did finally get out for a little while on November 12th and finally scored my first ever called in Coyote, I actually called in 2, but only got a shot at 1. He was a yearling male, he made the mistake of showing himself front on, about 65 yards away from me, and about 20 feet from my whirling Woodpecker, a 60g Vmax from my r-15 droppped him right in his tracks. I am happy to say, my r-15 and I both scored our first at the same time
OK now that all the background is out there, I will get to the Bobcat question.
I Live in North Peoria, and have been hunting in an area south of Lake Pleasant, that is heavily populated with Coyotes, but I have never seen anything that I would think is a Bobcat track (Hard to tell, it is real sandy where I hunt).
My question is, what would lead you to think an area has Bobcats in it, other than just calling one in? Are there any indicators besides tracks that would make you think an area is more likely to hold a Bobcat?
Thanks in advance for any guidance, now that I have finally gotten a coyote, I am getting greedy, it has always been one of my goals to get a Bobcat, and I would like to concentrate on areas where one is more likely to be, to increase my chances of getting one.
Since I am currently unemployed, and after the last couple months things will probably never be "normal" again...but things are getting a little better, I am able to travel reasonable distances to hunt, but would like to feel like I at least have a snowballs chance of getting a cat
Disclaimer: I am not E-Scouting or looking for areas that hold cats, just trying to get hints on how a person would identify one area as being more "catty" than another.
Thanks
Mark