Pound for pound the bobcats is an awesome killer. As I have told before I have found numerous deer killed by bobcats and not just fawns. I caught a monster tom cat several years ago where he had killed a nice fat 2 year old mule deer buck. Skiff snow and no trouble the deer never made it to it's feet. Good thing that old cat ate a big dose that morning so my old slow lion dogs could catch it. LOL! Actually I had two bobcat hunters from Michigan with mne and they had some fast bobcat dogs but when Booger, Kate and Blue left on that track they looked like a bunch of "
Goodmans and Julys sight chasing a red fox. I figured that old cat was letting some powerful venison farts. LOL!
GHOST IN THE DARKNESS
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Mike Leonard
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MIKE LEONARD
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Venison farts! LOL! oh man mike that is good. Real good. 
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which brings up something i allways wondered about. was it only the hungry indians the calvary couldn't find? if you've ever been in camp,truck or a hundred yards of someone who's been in the venison stew you KNOW where they're at!
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Well, here is another example of this type of behavior:
My brother lives in Pinedale Wyoming. On a scouting mission for a good coyote calling area, he discovered a deep overhang above a seasonal stream over by the Rock Springs area. This area is very open. Inside the overhang was a huge collection of skulls and bones of deer and antelope.
The part about lions preying on big bucks at a certain time of year is right on. When I was leasing a very large ranch over by Trinidad, I picked up a full truck load of big muledeer skull plates. I later discovered why. After the rut, the older age class breeder bucks would go to an area with some rock outcrops to seek the heat of the sun and put their backs to the rock. In the snow I saw where a lion had come in and jumped down on the deer from above. I was in a position to backtrack the lion, and I found where it had laid and watched the deer from the other side of the canyon, then after the deer had bedded down, made his stalk. For a lion kill, it can't get much easier than that. I suspect the lions look forward to that time of year and the easy pickings that come with it.
My brother lives in Pinedale Wyoming. On a scouting mission for a good coyote calling area, he discovered a deep overhang above a seasonal stream over by the Rock Springs area. This area is very open. Inside the overhang was a huge collection of skulls and bones of deer and antelope.
The part about lions preying on big bucks at a certain time of year is right on. When I was leasing a very large ranch over by Trinidad, I picked up a full truck load of big muledeer skull plates. I later discovered why. After the rut, the older age class breeder bucks would go to an area with some rock outcrops to seek the heat of the sun and put their backs to the rock. In the snow I saw where a lion had come in and jumped down on the deer from above. I was in a position to backtrack the lion, and I found where it had laid and watched the deer from the other side of the canyon, then after the deer had bedded down, made his stalk. For a lion kill, it can't get much easier than that. I suspect the lions look forward to that time of year and the easy pickings that come with it.