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[Stan Hillis]

Thirty-five pounds is a huge GA bobcat. Unless it was actually weighed most people overestimate the weight of 'cats. They probably grow much larger up "nawth". I used to trap them for the fur when prices were high, back in the late '70s and early '80s. I saw many, many 'cats caught, and never weighed one over 28 pounds. A good friend who still traps coyotes caught a 31 pound 'cat last week. He'll be mounted.

Best, SRH

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

Thirty-five pounds is a huge GA bobcat. Unless it was actually weighed most people overestimate the weight of 'cats. They probably grow much larger up "nawth". I used to trap them for the fur when prices were high, back in the late '70s and early '80s. I saw many, many 'cats caught, and never weighed one over 28 pounds. A good friend who still traps coyotes caught a 31 pound 'cat last week. He'll be mounted.

Best, SRH

Yeah im not sure how he weighed it I just seen the picture of it , it is pretty large for a bobcat . I read 40lbs is about the max in extreme cases . We do have some large critters locally I always figured it was because not many people actively shoot predators like out in the midwest . Or it could be from all the chemicals the farmers dump in the local water supply .

Now I havnt ever seen any large coyotes personally here , I have seen some large foxes but no large yotes . I would love to take one however with the Parker 10 gauge .