Whats a BIG Bobcat?Picts now!!

AL VT

AL VT

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Hey guys, Can any of you tell me whats Big for a Bobcat? I'm talking about weight. I think we (My son) took a big one ! It's a Male he weighed 43lbs. Whats average? I know females are smaller. I just thought this cat seemed huge ! What do you all think? and have you killed bigger ones then this? I'm in Upstate NY. There was news of a 48 lb. cat hit by a car about 5 miles from where I live and that seemed to be the talk of the town for a while. It was hit this fall around our deer season..Let me know what you all have killed for cats. I got pictures of him I just have had NO luck posting..anybody wants me to email pictures to post I would be thankful for it!...AL
 
A 43 pound bobcat is a huge cat. Average of both male and female are probably 25 pounds. We killed a 38 pound male here in TX this year and it was the biggest I have ever seen in person. The only one bigger I have seen a pic of is the one that Randy Watson killed in the same area, it was 45 pounds. You should be very pleased with your 43 pound cat. They arent around every corner, you may never kill one that big again, ever. Your cats are a little bigger than ours but a 43 pounder is a trophy for sure.

Take Care,

Todd
 
Al,
I would have to say that your bobcat is indeed a big one, a real trophy cat. I am thinking that 30-35 pounds is considered a big bobcat. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
You should be real pleased with it. Ive heard of a 55 lber one time. Key word there is heard not saw. They said it looked like a small mountain lion with spots.

Heck of a cat you got, definately mounting material.

[edit] send the pics I'll be glad to stick em up for ya.
 
I would think 15-25 average. Anything over 30 pretty dang big bobcat. 43 pounds...not gonna see a whole lot of them that big. I've taken quite a few down but nothing that big.
Love to see some pictures of that bad boy.
 
Record weight for a bobcat is 69 pounds!!! Now that my friends is a whopper and a half! I've forgotten where this cat was taken, I remember it was a northern clime. IMHO, anything over 32-35 pounds is a real nice cat. Over forty is a true biggun! I think at 43 pounds you got yourself a true biggun, congrat's! I've seen three that I think would go forty or over. I called one several years ago that came to ten yards and stood twitching it's tail for a long minute looking me over before it finally spooked off. There was a snow fall and this cat was magnificent standing in the powder looking around. It was exactly four days after bobcat season closed! I saw another while squirrel hunting in the late fall at a little creek. And I called and missed one this year as it ran across an old logging trail. Each encounter is vivedly recorded in my memory.
 
Here in IL we do have some nice cats since they are protected. We have actully seen a lot of them that would out weigh 40lb. Two weeks ago I had seen one on my farm running deer and I first thought it was a coyote until I could see it didnt have a tail. We have had them to come in while we are howling.
 
Tommy, I sent 3 pictures to your email. My son is 19 and this is his first Bobcat! I have yet to kill one myself..seems I always see them when I have my deer rifle in hand. He made a 140 yrd. shot on this cat, feeding on a deer carcass. It was at 9am! That seemed like a funny time for a cat to be feeding but I guess he was hungry! Thanks in advance for posting the pictures..feel free to post them where you feel they should be..(here or in the picture thread) We checked the cost of a mount for this Bobcat..$350 + the cost of whatever he would be mounted on..We couldn't do it so he sold the cat to a guy who WILL have it mounted.. Thanks again..AL
 


Here's an H of a big cat. Couldn't been prouder of my sweetie. Man is she lucky, that was her first time EVER calling with me. This picture was taken just a few months after we started dating. Take it easy, Joey
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Here's a photo of the cat Todd (txpred) mentioned in his post. He was a beaut. Still think that scale was reading a little light.
(I'm 6'3")

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I shot a cat a few years back that ended up weighing 42lbs, I mentioned "ended up" because it hung in my garage for 1 1/2 months before I gave it to a friend. He took it to a taxidermist that promptly dropped a load in his britches when he saw it, and then scaled it. I don't know what it would have weighed right when I killed it, but it was a monster. Most of our cats around here are lucky to break the 20lb mark.
 
Cat update, Just this evening, I looked out across my field and you would not believe the cat I seen! Our season is closed but let me tell you..I had all I could do , not to put a 55gr. Ballistic tip in his ribs! He was out at 300 yrds walking broad side and he was every bit as big as my boys cat if not bigger! He would have made for easy pickins!! I rushed for my camcorder but all I got was his south end headin north into an island of woods in the middle of the field.. AL
 
The record bobcat was probably taken in 1951 in Colorado. Gerry Blair wrote about it in his book, Calling East and West. The big cat hit the scales at 69 lbs.
 


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