Any bobcat trappers out there?
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Wow, that didnt take long. Mainly because they have helped demolish the pheasant population.
Wow... I had no idea Bobcats were demolishing the pheasant population. I always thought it had more to do with farming more ground, climate issues..etc..
Sarcasm
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Bobcats demolishing pheasant populations is a myth, studies have shown (mainly from stomach contents from roadkill dissections) that bobcats in a big way prefer to eat rabbits. Search for bobcats in Iowa on the internet to find the research. How is the rabbit population in that area?
Notice, I said "helped demolish", I realize there are other factors as well. I am not wanting to get into this argument. I just want tips on trapping one.
Another reason this makes no sense is bobcats live in timber and heavily wooded areas, just like your picture shows. I doubt you see many or hunt pheasants in that timber habitat anyway. Not a lot of overlap between bobcat and pheasant habitat as pheasants prefer grasslands, idle fields, wetlands, croplands, haylands, and shrublands and bobcats aren't present in these areas.
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Some people just want to kill things, there's no rhyme or reason to it.
You should probably contact some of the hunters/trappers in the area because you are only suppose to be able to trap or hunt one bobcat a season with a fur harvestor's license. Notice I said hunt so you don't need to go through the trouble of trapping if you like
I have no info about bobcats, but I can tell you a lot about Cougars..............Hiyo!!
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Disclaimer: I am a pheasant hunter
Bobcats haven't "helped demolish" the pheasant population in Iowa. That is an absolute joke and shows your ignorance.
Check out some research being done at our own Iowa State University on this very topic instead of listening to tall tails from your drinkin' buddies:
We examined the stomach contents of over 150 bobcat carcasses. We found remains of cottontail rabbits (image to right shows rabbit ears) in 60% of the stomachs, mice and voles in about 20%, and fox squirrels in about 15% of stomachs. Juvenile bobcats ate proportionally more mice and voles than adults. Male and female bobcats generally ate the same prey. We found remains of deer in 12 stomachs, primarily those of adult male bobcats, although the small volume of deer remains suggests that much of it was consumed as carrion. About 2% of the stomachs contained birds (turkey, pheasant, hawk, crow and flicker). We also found a few stomachs with remains of muskrat, beaver, and shrew. Although some sportsmen have been worried that bobcats are affecting turkey and pheasant populations in Iowa the very low number of these prey in the stomachs of bobcats does not support that view.
Bobcat Project - William R. Clark
