bobcat question?

bigc

bigc

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Now don't laugh!!! Is there an easy, or easier way to release a bobcat from a leg hold trap?

In Utah we have a limit of 6 bobcat tags. But after that, you have to let them go(?)..and since traps are pretty indiscriminate, one might still catch a bobcat or two. Is there a preferred method of release?

Thanks.

C
 
Haha I can't think of anything except for letting someone else try while you film it for us! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif That's gotta suck
 
Send your wife in???? Or maybe get a tranquilizer gun? Who knows I would be interested to see if anyone here has a good idea.
 
Throw a rope on 'em, stretch 'em out tight, tie off to something stationary and step on the spring. The cat will get out of the loop (hopefully) on it's own.
 
I do a lot of ADC work and turn alot of cat lose the best way for me is to use a 6 gal. bucket put it over the cat and pull the traped foot out and take it off make D... sure to keep some weight on the bucket.Have used a choke pole .But do not use the pole without some help.those claws can cut your leg to peaces.
 
Try a piece of plywood with a "v" notch cut out of one end. Slip the "V" over the leg so all you can get to is the trap and one foot.Works good here in the east.Tom
 
Use a catch pole. Just put the snare around the cats neck and tighten it down to hold it (but not choke it, they die pretty quick if you cut off their air completely)and then push the cats head away from you until the cats head is well away and its leg is fully extended towards you due to its paw being in the trap and all of the trap chain slack being taken out. Then hold the catch pole firmly under your arm (keeping the cats head pinned down and away from you) and depress the springs with both hands and then you can grab the catch pole and release the cat a.s.a.p. Like I said, you have to do it all fairly quick, or you'll have a dead cat.

Take it easy and have fun /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif ,

Rusty
 
Good advice from Rusty. I've killed a few with a catch pole. However, we did manage to keep two alive in one day, killed one the same day, using a homemade catch pole. Had a guy buying them from us in 1983 and paying $350 for them alive, which was much better than $200 dead. Put them in heavy wool sacks ( like a gunny sack only much thicker). Once cat had worked a hole through the sack by morning and had his entire paw outside. I think he was about to make a jail break.

I prefer to release them with a .22 short anymore. Had enough of that catch and release stuff. That's for TV fishermen.
 


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