Re: High Country Bobcat
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: LOBO</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Good looking cat! Did you shoot it with a Taurus? </div></div>
Good eye Lobo. What you see on the crossdraw is actually a S&W model 60 3". I put the boot grip off a Taurus on it to keep the grip out of the way. The primary on that rig is a custom BFR framed .500 JRH for bear.
I had just come out of busting-brush trying to flush a monster buck for my partner on the ridge.
I saw this cat chasing a bird 220 yards away. I snapshot it with my Remington 700 / .300 RSAUM with a 180 grain Nosler Ballistic @3010 fps. The side you see is NOT the exit side, that's for sure. A perfect heart/lung shot field dressed it on the spot amongst a spray of mist. I have about a 2" tear in the exit side of the hide to sew up. I'm not mounting it, just soft-tanning the hide for our Sportsman's Club wall. The eyes look funny because I was holding the head up by the skin of the neck.
If anyone is interested I can post a couple of pic's of the underbelly. Beautiful markings!
It was a female about 2 years old, but no indications of kittens.
I saw a charcoal gray-coated bobcat in the same area this last year but I couldn't get on it fast enough. It was the most unusual colored bobcat I have ever seen.