Cant say for sure that he is a bobcat. he is much bigger than any bobcat I have ever seen. His paw tracks are the size of a lab and he is much stockier than the usual bobcat. I wish the picture was in color so we could say for sure.
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If you can not say for sure that the picture is of a bobcat you should brush up on your animal identification skills. The short tail and spots are a dead give away.
He is a BIG cat but I trap bobcat,coyote,and fox every year and I’m 99.9% shur thats a BOBCAT:wink:
Bobcat, no question
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Originally posted by flyinghighIf you can not say for sure that the picture is of a bobcat you should brush up on your animal identification skills. The short tail and spots are a dead give away.
Your eyes must be better tahn mine because I can not positively identify these so called spots that you claim to see. As for the short tail. I agree. With the tracks at around 4’’ that is the biggest track of any bobcat that I have ever seen. The average track of a bobcat is 1.8" and they vary from 1" to 3". If he is a bobcat- consider him a trophy!
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Well upsmansc I would have to agree as that is a bobcat with out a doupt in my mind. He is one heck of a big one and if you can get the chance to take him this year he will make one heck of a mount. Besides he needs to hit the ground cause can you imagine the number of turkeys he has eaten??
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Turkeys and a Cat of that size small Deer too!!!
What are you all using as a reference to judge the size of this cat. Noone knows how close it is to the camera! It just looks like an average bobcat to me. How are you measuring these tracks? Are you talking about it being 4" across?
Why all the fuss about the LONGTAIL, dont you still have turkey tags to fill.
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This guy has pics of a BIG BLACK CAT . I’m trying to get in contact with him and get a pic and hear the story. ( 125 to 175 lbs )
Duke’s of Hazzard’s, very on “SNAKE” (Jerry Rushing)
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[quote]Originally posted by REELNAUTI2008
Well upsmansc I would have to agree as that is a bobcat with out a doupt in my mind. He is one heck of a big one and if you can get the chance to take him this year he will make one heck of a mount. Besides he needs to hit the ground cause can you imagine the number of turkeys he has eaten??
Not to mention how many small deer he may have killed. He is deffinately on the hit list. I think he would make an awesome full body mount.
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The bobcat is one of the deers few natural predators left, they are supposed to eat them.
Heard their meat’s very stringy…kinda like eagle or baby manatee.
It’s a great life, if you don’t weaken…
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Keep casting.
If one of of you would be so kind as to tell me how to upload a pic here, I will add to this contraversy graciously.Email me or post here. Thanks
http://s695.photobucket.com/albums/vv314/pantherasanteedelta/ think this might add to the topic a little. A six year veteran ocean lifeguard filmed this animal in 2002 along the N santee river. He contacted dnr, and it took them 3 years to give him an audience. When they viewed this film, they said it was 150lbs, not a bear, but if they were asked by the media, they would have to say that this was some form of wild hog. Most recently jay butfiloski of dnr said it was only a shadow. The original film will be aired in jan of next year on scetv. Till then,the pirated cell phone video can be found on youtube by searching black panther sighting. how do I know this story is true? Cause iam that lifeguard. Please email your sightings time, date, and location to us at pantherasanteedelta@yahoo.com
how long is the original video, is there more video than what is on youtube and is there movement on the original video
did you see the object move off or what happened as you approached?
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32 seconds on the original video, the frames do depict movement in the tail, and last but not least, I didnt see it till I watched the film the next day.Kinda glad I didnt get out the truck and approach in that I only weighed 145lbs at the time.
aug_fish, tells me there has been 4 sightings this year on club land close to Augusta by the river. BIG BLACK CAT!
Also found tracks on same property.
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I think the best “Panther” video on you tube is “Black Panther Stalks Buck” I think i would have staid in that stand all night!!! [:0]