Saw this on Facebook...

YOU THINK A BOBCAT CANT KILL A DEER!
Something I’ve never seen, and been hunting all my life.
It happened while deer hunting yesterday.
This Bobcat shot out on Green field, jumped on this little Deer and road it down in about 3 seconds and grabbed it by the throat.
I was able to get a shot on cat and killed him but he was still clinched on the deers throat. I shot the deer for a mercy killing.
When I got down and went to them the cat was still attached to the throat.
Dragged them across the field and still attached.
Had to pry the jaws of the cat off the deer 2 hours later and the deers throat was slashed.

Awesome experience!

They sure can.

Thanks for sharing!

Appears so.

wildcat lynch told of it many many yrs ago. Thanks for the pics

While living in Virgina I shot a bobcat that was on top of a deer.

Stories in MI of bobcats jumping on the heads of deer and how brutal the attack was.

Watched the whole thing.Bobcat leaped of a rock ledge onto the deer and was bringing it down when I shot the bobcat.

A trapper and Game Warden here in Coke County, R.L. Flanagan told me once, "If you are seeing cats in the daylight, you have a cat problem." The young cats will move during the daylight to avoid the mature toms at night...

Wow...thats pretty Awesome account! Predators & Prey!

Yup

Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!

Yep, I've heard they can and believe it, especially after this. Nature is awesome.

Thanks for sharing the story and pictures. Old Lynch and Arnold both wrote that they had seen sign or witnessed several time that bobcats take deer.
thanks
Mac

I got that cat. It was a friend of my who shot it while sitting in a green field. Once in a life time movie there he saw. Thing about it the cat had a cripple front foot and wouldn't a fully grown tom either. I trap a pile of cats and coyotes on that land. Were getting the deer and turkeys back in there but still got a lot of work to do. That our company FB page you saw that on.

That kitty must have been hungry to do that !!!
Dennis

Just think of how many turkeys and quail they can take. Doubt deer are an every day/week kill unless the right opportunity comes along.

i bet bobcats, just like lions, bear, coyotes and even big boar coons dont pass up an opportunity to kill a fawn that just lays there like they do. would not surprise me if possums kill them. i bet this bobcat, caught a couple weeks ago was a deer killer. certainly a killer of yearlings.

Interesting Bullet. When I run my winter bait locations here in the northern bush using roadkill deer, my primary source, I do not recall ever a cat at night on my cameras. I would say the big toms are later morning, others cats early morning and mid afternoon. Same result from deer trail location cameras as well on travelers thruout the year.
My sept-oct bear baits usually have incidental fisher in the morning, and cats early evening. Both hunting the mice, chipmunks, and rabbits around those baits. Neither of those do I get at night.
The only consistent night visitor on cameras to either type of bait other than canines is.....marten.

Osky

Bobcats do that alot here in Maine come winter time.