Live2Hunt just because you haven't seen them does't mean thier not there or not there in good numbers. you don't see cats very often.They're sneeky.....I've been calling and happen to spot one(bobcats) just sitting a few few away....just watching me....when I thought a field mouse couldn't have slipped by me.This morning in the mud by my fourwheeler(15 feet from my door)was some bobcat tracks.The kitty took a dump on my door step a year ago.Point is that I have never seen a bobcat on our place(outside of a trap) ever......but they're here in good numbers.I find sign all over the place and catch them in steel traps.Never seen a mountain lion on this place either but I have found tracks and heard it scream one night.It's like hogs people will tell you that they don't have hogs on their place......after a little scouting ....you just found a area rich in hogs.Hogs and cats move the most at night so you don't really get many chances to see them in the day.Well the hogs on my place move at night because of hunting pressure.Anyway.......sounds like you guys hunt this area alot.....and are familar with it. I've never hunted public land.....I don't envy you guys.It's got to be hard.I did hunt on Fort Bliss in El Paso for a few years.You could drive for hours and not see anyone.....or anything but coyotes and rabbits.
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Hey Live2Hunt,
Did you read LeeChul's last post? The description of the scene and the trail pretty much nails it. Pretty sharp of Heathen to spot the lobes in the track... I was fixated on the claws. My lab makes a track very similar to that one, but no matter how many times I got her to step in the mud yesterday (yes, I did test the hypothesis), I couldn't get a track like the one in the picture.
Anyway, I see bobcats almost everytime I hunt that area... especially in the spring. They're in there... not as thick as the 'yotes, but thick. Besides, I have the same keys as Lee, and looking at them compared to the track... that would be one HEALTHY coyote. As it is, it's either a really big tom bobcat, or a pretty small lion.
I have pretty fair confidence in my tracking ability, but I'll be the first to admit I'm fallible.
Did you read LeeChul's last post? The description of the scene and the trail pretty much nails it. Pretty sharp of Heathen to spot the lobes in the track... I was fixated on the claws. My lab makes a track very similar to that one, but no matter how many times I got her to step in the mud yesterday (yes, I did test the hypothesis), I couldn't get a track like the one in the picture.
Anyway, I see bobcats almost everytime I hunt that area... especially in the spring. They're in there... not as thick as the 'yotes, but thick. Besides, I have the same keys as Lee, and looking at them compared to the track... that would be one HEALTHY coyote. As it is, it's either a really big tom bobcat, or a pretty small lion.
I have pretty fair confidence in my tracking ability, but I'll be the first to admit I'm fallible.
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That was just incredibly informative!
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I know I my guess maybe wrong. But what I'm saying is that, "if I had to take a guess out of the blue, I would say coyote." From my experience at Laguna Mtn., too many coyotes in the area. And without doing any specific research on the print, the chance of a coyote making prints on Laguna Mtn. soil is like 95% and 5% cat.
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