Big Tom Bobcat Called and Taken – Plus 6 Gray Fox and 1 Coyote on the Same Stand
Mark Healy of Wildlife Callers and Bob Bogaard of the Phoenix Varmint Callers head into Arizona’s Unit 23 and call this fine Arizona bobcat.
As a couple of Globe – Miami natives, it was fitting that Bob and I headed toward Roosevelt Lake. We only had Sunday to call and although neither one of us had been calling in this area for a few years, we both grew up hunting and fishing in it. With our previous knowledge of the roads, we’d waste little time looking for predator sign and setting up to call.
Big Front Shoulders on this Male Bobcat
We were on a “cats only hunt” and agreed to let everything but mountain lions and bobcats walk away unscathed. Our first two stands of the day were disrupted with truck traffic, cold howling wind, and people camping (I think we scared a few people out of their sleeping bags with female cougar growls). (more…)
