Spent 8 hours Saturday waiting on a nice ten and then again Sunday morning for about four hours and he never showed. Since my brother had been wanting a cat and we had seen a small one from the stand we decided she had denned up on the side of a rocky bluff. We went down from where we thought it had went and put out the Foxpro and decoy. Two minutes in the twirly part of the decoy flys off and I thought it would be better to go fix it than to not have it because the grass was tall. After the reset we start again and the whirly flys again, I guess Im weak and couldnt get it tight, but at this point my brother says forget this it aint happening but I knew that cat was in those rocks and told him hang tight. With no decoy running I started with snow shoe hair, after seven minutes I switched to rabbit duet, our usual cat set would be about 35 minutes or so and I knew that cat was there she just needed to hear the right sound so at the eighteen minute mark I switched to lucky bird and that did it. She came up from the bluff and sat with just her ears and half her face showing. Had the decoy been working this wouldve been a done deal but with nothing to see she hung up a little. Like they do most times she would sit and walk and sit again but never commiting over the bluff fully for a good shot. Last week I called a cat that hung up in thick brush and wouldnt budge and the sparrow sound finally got him out and to 40 yards so I told my brother stay ready this was gonna work and seconds after I hit the sparrow she got up and gave him a shot. At 110 yards it was easy work and the .204 made a rug out of her. I couldnt ever get a real good look from my spot but when he shot I could see the cat was not the small female and when we got there I was right it was a big male. Im guessing the females mate since both were denning in the same bluff.

Awesome cat, and great story! There was a lot of good information in this post, and everything you said I believe in and use when calling in cats especially when they hang up like that! It's always been fascinating to me how you can run through multiple sounds and when you hit that "special" sound whatever it may be they come in on a string! Good job guys

Congratulations, good sized cat with great color. I don't usually shoot cats, but would have shot this one due to size and color.

Back in the days of tapes I would run two totally different sounds with two callers at the same time until something worked and then I would go to just of the sounds and see how that one did, if it didnt get the responce I wanted I would switch to the other. A lot of times critters would come in with a rabbit sound and a bird sound going together. It seems to me for whatever reason that when a sound is working it works for most of the animals that day or night and not just individual animals. I firmly believe that if a critter, especially a cat, can hear the sound then something will get them moving. For this reason I'll run four or five sounds for 8-10 minutes each at a spot I know should produce.

Is that a ACU Camo Hat?

Sweet

Not sure but he didnt go there so if it is he stole it

Good sized cat.