Catching the Bellevue Bobcat...an officer’s tale

This was in my town,explains where all the stray cats have dissapeared to.

I had a run-in with a bobcat, a few years back. They are about but rarely seen in Southern Ontario.

I encountered it in my attached garage.

I called the OPP, who notified the conservation people.

The conservation guy was trying to arrest me for un-neccessarilly killing it. The OPP, complete with camera did a roll shot of the animal and surroundings.

The OPP guy pointed out to the government paid tree-hugger....the powder burns which proved a close encounter.....the angle of the entry exit wounds and the bullets (instinctive double tap) fragments in the wall and splatter indicated the bobcat was airbourne about 4-5 ft off the ground...........

9mm, 121 gr 3/4 jacket hollow points, Uniqued outa sight......lotsa fire and flame....loud.....

Poor kitty.........

Then the twit wanted to charge me for "hunting with a restricted weapon"....OPP threw him out......

What had happened, was I heard the semi-feral cats I feed, yowling.....assuming it was another possum into their food--I went to give them backup.....should have taken a shotgun.

We used to get lots of these in Fort Mac. I always had indoor cats.

My buddy took this one in his back yard a few years ago.

All the time in the bush here I have never seen a bobcat or lynx.I have heard them but that's it and I live right on a wildlife corridor.The cougars are another thing,we get about 9 or 10 house intrusions in the summer from cougars looking for cats or cat food.We have one guy that tree's them with his hounds about every three days so they can relocate them and we have the Karelian bear dogs pilot program here.They work against bears,big horn sheep and cats. I need some night vision cam attachments,had the russian night vision bino's and I was amazed at what critters were cruising around outside my door.Took the pinhole cover off once though and ruined it.

Ran into (~100m from) a wolverine once, while mountain biking in Fort Mac. That was a BVD filling moment, and followed by a strategic withdrawal.

Made the opening of the X-Men movie a little more surreal. (Wolverine is cage fighting in a bar in Fort McMurray . . . saw it in a theatre in Fort McMurray)



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Muhahahah!

Ziggy


Yeah the russian NV are 2nd generation---cascade tube is easily overloaded. Even pointing them at the sun is not recommended. 4th generation NV is $1200-2000 US. and are more user tolerant.