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Bobcat Attacks Turkey Hunter [VIDEO]

By: Evan Jankens
@kingofthekc

Growing up, my grandfather was a big-time hunter. My father, on the other hand, never had any interest in it, so I have never been officially on a hunting trip.

Sitting outside in the cold doesn't really seem too exciting.

One hunter had the experience of a lifetime though.

Kevin Walter of Manassas, Va., had a face-to-face encounter with a bobcat who was hunting him while he was hunting turkey.

According to americanhunter.org:

"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."

It's almost as if this was the Justin Bieber of bobcats and didn't want anyone to have video of it.

What's the closest you have come to a wild animal in their natural habitat?

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