With two longbeards already tagged, Kevin Walter of Manassas, Va., was having a pretty good spring — but the most exciting moments of the season were yet to come. When the gobbler he was working this morning went tightlipped, Walter, a wildlife biologist at Fort Belvoir, set up in a new area on the side of a hill.

“After sitting for a few minutes I looked downhill and spotted a bobcat making its way toward me,” he said.

As the cat approached within 10 yards behind him, Walter took out his camera phone to record the seldom-seen animal.

“When it got directly behind me, I gave a few squirrel distress calls,” he said. “That stopped it in its tracks, and it peered around a tree to look at me.”

Walter thinks the shape and black color of the phone, and what may have looked like the eyes of a meal to the bobcat (the camera lens and flash windows on the back of the phone) triggered a predatory response. The cat began to stalk the fully-camouflaged hunter, who kept the camera rolling.

“It stopped about 4 yards away with its tail flittering about. Then, just like that, it jumped right at my phone, which was next to my face. I swatted it away, and it bounced off my arm and took off like a bat outta hell through the woods.”

Walter received no injuries. That’s one lucky hunter—and one bewildered bobcat.

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• thebobchannel

  I have the exact same feeling toward and response to cell phone users.

  Dec 28, 2015, 5:48 am 0 Reply
• xenoverse

  why would you post this it’s lame as hell. desperate for content lol.

  Dec 28, 2015, 9:41 am 0 Reply
  • Anonymous

    Are you kidding? That was fracking awesome!!! Even domestic cats can be pretty freaking scary!! The cat family on this planet is absolutely spectacular. Amazing creatures.

    Dec 29, 2015, 9:07 pm 0 Reply
• Robot

  Are you sure this was a Bobcat?

  Bobcats have a “Bobbed Tail” and more stripping markings, this looks more like a immature Mountain Lion.

  If you are in the area next year the outcome may be a lot different!

  Dec 28, 2015, 1:18 pm 0 Reply
• amy2x

  Here…Kitty… Kitty… LoL

  Dec 28, 2015, 4:16 pm 0 Reply
• Geeper

  Could it have been Bigfoot, Jeffery?

  Dec 29, 2015, 3:48 am 0 Reply