Sorry, wrong thread.
Posted on 11/14/2021 9:07:13 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
For deer hunters this time of year, checking trail camera photos can either be a frustratingly tedious chore or as exciting as Christmas Eve. If your SD card is filled with does and dink bucks, you groan.
But then, every once in a while, your cameras capture unique, once-in-a-lifetime images. New England bowhunter Dave Morel recently got some of those. No, they weren’t photos of the next world-record whitetail, but rather of a big bobcat which let curiosity get the best of him.
The bobcat leapt and climbed to impressive heights. But ultimately, the scent dripper survived the encounter.
(Excerpt) Read more at outdoorlife.com ...
Only once I had a glimpse of just the back end of a bobcat as it spooked in front of me in Colorado...
I’ve seen plenty of tracks, and heard them, but never saw one while hunting. I’ve seen Fischer, fox, coyote, bear, etc,, but never a bobcat while hunting. Nor a lynx
“...dink bucks...”
Ain’t no such thing...You can’t eat antlers...
If it’s a legal deer, you put it in the freezer....
I read through the article several times, and saw no mention of where these pictures were taken, other than an implicit indication that it was somewhere in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
So I guess I’ll have to avoid the whole state, which I normally am able to do with little trouble.
—”Ain’t no such thing...”
A spike horn under 3 inches?
I’ve spotted bobcats twice in the hills and mountains around the San Francisco Bay. Both were short glimpse, but saw the full cat. My wife once spotted a mountain lion on a trail and fortunately he took off in the other direction.
I still don’t know what a scent dripper looks like, but by the way the term is being used, I’m guessing it is some kind of lure meant to attract animals being hunted.
I’ve heard of Honeydrippers, but we’re not talking about
Robert Plant.
Sorry, wrong thread.
—”So I guess I’ll have to avoid the whole state”
You might be surprised what turns up on local trail cams.
A relative worked for DuPage County and they send a biologist out if you have creditable information.
A while back they had an elk sighting!
They found tracks and scat! and called Elk Grove Village to see if any are missing from their park, all present and accounted for.
A young male looking for love in the wrong places and tend to follow the railroad tracks.
They had thermal imaging of a large cougar in a tree, friends that lived in the area said they had been seeing “something” at night.
—”Sorry, wrong thread.”
Close, but no cigar.
Button buck???
Legal and still good eating...
I like to run in a local state park after work. Lately this means that I’ve been running in the dark.
There are bears in other state parks in the nearby Adirondacks, so I sometimes feel a little queasy when I’m off the main roads.
One time, in the deep dusk, I saw something lighter than the background, motionless in a tree about 20 feet above me. It was about the size of a human child, just a light grey form. I watched it for thirty seconds or so, trying to figure out what it might be.
Suddenly, it flew off the tree and away through the (fairly dense) forest, in perfect silence. It was amazing. I lost sight of it almost immediately. Through between the branches and leaves with no problem.
I think the writer was referring to any small deer with small antlers as “dinky”...
I have hunted since 1960 and have 53 deer to my credit...My biggest was a 6 point...Like I said, you can’t eat antlers and I taught my son that the first legal deer you see goes in the freezer...
We have actually went several years without buying hardly any hamburger cause we had a lot of deer ground up in our freezer...
—”Legal and still good eating...”
Going out one morning a car in front of us hit a spike horn and didn’t want it, called DNR and they tagged it, yes good
Around here it changes from year to year depending on the size of the herd.
They now have an antlerless season.
I have not gone out since CWD.
CWD isn’t too bad in Tennessee... Very little in East Tennessee...
I saw a red fox this morning in a Charleston, SC subdivision.
I saw a bobcat one time - he was in the back yard of this house. One of our cats had gotten outside and I was anxious about her because she was sick. I was looking out the window toward the back (the property is about 3 acres and heavily treed) and saw what I thought was our cat tiptoeing in a sort of gingerly, slow way through the shadows under some pines. Then I realized the cat was WAY bigger than our cat and its face had a ruff of fur around it. I’m pretty sure it was a bobcat, though it could’ve been a small mountain lion. (Our cat was subsequently found on the side porch and she was very eager to get into the house, so she was likely reacting to the other one’s presence.)
Rather, “Close, but no cougar.”
Robt ducks, looks for cover.
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