12-21 SS Bobcat
How do you hunt a bobcat? Maybe a simple question but there is an interesting answer.
I recently had a conversation with Les Woolsey who runs the guiding service at a huge ranch in Texas, just outside of Lubbock, called the Matador Ranch. Les was telling me that they hunted Whitetail, doves, Rio Grande turkeys, huge wild boars, that incidentally are becoming a big problem throughout the South because they are so prolific, and bobcats. The Matador is Texas big… if you are willing to call 36,000 acres a large spread. The country has a lot of mesquite cover and plenty of room for bobcat habitat. So I asked less about hunting these wily little animals. A bobcat, they are an elusive creature. My preferences either a mouth call or electronic but 1st of all you have to find the terrain, the topography that they hang around in is off close to water which they like, some heavy cover, and then usually some good food sources for them and if you have most of that he’ll be good. Get the wind right, get the weather right, sit down and be very patient and call them in. Call them in just like turkeys. Yes are to some degree. It is kind of like a wood pecker call or if you use a mouth call I use a cotton tail or a jackrabbit distress call. That is normally what I do to call them in.
