MGS, just curious, where do you call bobcats and coyotes? Place near Royse City? I know there are some bobcats around here as well as a lot of coyotes but I've never tried anything with them. I would love to get a bobcat though.

This is a hunting forum not a nature watching forum. Shoot it and post it on here and you will have instant rock star status. Then get a full body mount done. Good luck hope you get him.

If it is a mt. lion, check creek bottoms and of course watering locations look for tracks that look like this:


Mt. lions don't usually eat on thing that are already dead (not to say that it never happens, it's just not what they preffer). Where you do find tracks, try to find where they're headead, more than likely it will be a route with the most cover. Also be on the look out for "scrapes", they look like you put mittens on your hands and pilled up dirt, leaves, gravel, etc. with your hands side by side and only from one side of the pile. What ever side the scrape marks are on, that's the direction he was headed.
Sometimes there will be scat in these, most of the time just a little squirt of urine.
What these scrapes are is the male marking his territory. They lead females to them and chalange other males to stay away. If you find scrapes you're deffinetly in his backyard. Very rarly will they attack you because they've seen you coming for a good ways off and have left the area. If you wound it or corner it though, make sure you have plenty of lead flying towards it.
Calling them or ambushing them on a travel route work fairly good, but it's one of those right time right place things. They do travel far, but if he has picked a home and feels pretty safe there sighting will become more frequent. Best time of the day is just after dark till just after sunup. Durring daylight hours they're usually sleeping.
Good luck and be safe.

Not trying to be disrespectful at all but buddy those are bobcat tracks unless you have a real small hand. Last weekend down near uvalde we saw a track every bit the size of your hand. It was bigger than a baseball and deep. The bobcat Rocky killed had paws that big. It was big for a bobcat but he wasn't no mt lion.

Just crossed over from the fishing forum, saw this and to join in.

My buddy has around 300 acres here in Grayson County, and has a mtn lion that passes through occasionally. During the drought it dropped a few calves. We tried, and tried, and despite several sightings (accounting for even supposed and false) we could not get on this cat. We did figure it to have about a 6-8 week rotation pending on season. We also are certain it follows a creek that has heavy brush along it that cuts through the property. What we haven't found yet is a place for it to bed down when passing through, which would have increased the odds of getting the drop on it.

Best of luck on getting that cat.

-Eric