Posted on 04/21/2026 11:06:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Carson Bender was set up at the base of a tree while hunting on private land near Nekoosa — about 100 miles north of Madison — when he turned around to find the fierce predator stalking him.
The 19-year-old hunter quickly whipped out his phone to record the encounter as the bobcat slowly inched closer to him, video posted on his Instagram page shows.
“I pan over with the phone, and the bobcat is just staring at me,” he told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “I was like, uh-oh.”
The cat locked in on Bender for a few tense moments — then, in the blink of an eye, lunged at him, grabbing the teen by the arm before the video cut to black.
Bender said he was able to quickly shake the cat off him before it ran off.
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Wildlife Fish and Game officers are typically pricks and would have nailed him if they had caught him.
>> The other is for fun.😏
Yeah, ‘til that bobcat gets ahold of it! 😆
LOL.
When I was working in California I had a patient who was turkey hunting making the call when a mountain lion pounced. He said they both looked surprised. He did put a round of birdshot in the mountain lion but got swiped with the claws…
His cousin was in the same squadron as me in bootcamp..
Unlike his cousin, he was very quiet, not that we had much choice ;^).
Very strange.. bobcats usually avoid any human contact (and stay out of sight).
I had to laugh-that is so cat-like! You must meet his needs on his terms!
Hahahahaha...I had the same thought when I saw it!
My nephew was over in Thailand recently, and he went into a cage with a tiger and was allowed to pet it, it was apparently “tame”.
The big cat sneezed, and my nephew’s heart jumped about three feet out of his body!
I wouldn’t have expected a bobcat to attack an adult human. I was confronted by a small one once and it hissed at me. When I started walking towards it it ran off.
Ouch.😳
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