So Claude Strother gets attacked by a bobcat while turkey hunting, and it hasn’t been posted on Aldeer?
Maybe it has but I didn’t see it. Here’s the story from Fox 10 News.

Dang ! Ol boy got boogered up ! What a cool story and a tough old man.

He's got that old Southern Aristocracy accent.

Lesson learned always have your back to a good sized tree...

distant cousin of mine. Strothers own a ton of land across from Millers Ferry in Wilcox County.

Prayers for his success in the turkey woods for years to come!!

I posted it in the turkey forum last night. I guess I missed your post here. Mr Claude is a goodun. My college roommate is married to his daughter. Heck of a story.

I would love to meet him and hear the story in person.

His daughter said he's got a millions stories like this one, so when she found out it was not a surprise. LOL !!! Sounds like he's lived a full life.

I loved it when he said he doesn’t blame the cat, his yepping is just too good, sounds like a real hen! LOL!

He sounds like a fine southern gentleman. I’d love listen to his hunting stories. Damn shame that he’s battling cancer.

I think I've killed four bobcats while coyote hunting. Also like to think I'm pretty aware of what is going on around me while doing it but have yet to hear a bobcat come in. A year or two back I was set up in the edge of a blackberry thicket doing a calling sequence and hear a meow to my back left. Two bobcats were about 20 feet coming in. I turned and fired and put this one down. The other one disappeared. Without the meow I would not have heard them. I totally understand how it would be possible for one to get on you.

Road kill I was on a predator set up once in a short grass hayfield only trying to call in Coyotes. I got a toy squirrel on a stick with fishing line to shake for a visual. That tail gets to flopping and they lock on. We we sitting on a powerline pole in the middle of said hayfield fully expecting the yotes to come from the swamp so I had my buddy lined up with a rifle. I had my 12ga just incase one tried charging in from the pine thicket on my side. I caught movement and motioned for him to swing the rifle my way for a shot. That Cat was on its belly crawling in grass not even shin deep and all I could see was glimpses of the top of its ears and some grass moving. I wasnt sure what it was until it saw the decoy movement and bolted dead at us from about 30yrds. Let me tell you it was a split second and he covered 30yrds. I pushed his rifle barrel away and quick as I could threw up that 870 and hit it with a load of #1 Buckshot. I was straight instinct shooting, I dont remember aiming. Rolled the cat but it jumped up and took off and I had to hit it again 2'x's to stop it. I have killed several bobcats but that sneaky sucker reminded me to keep your head on a swivel. Scary how slick he was coming in. Had I been by myself I would have faced the swamp and never seen it coming. Great story by the old man and best of luck to him. I wished he could come by my buddy's camp in Selma and tell us some of those stories.

Road kill I was on a predator set up once in a short grass hayfield only trying to call in Coyotes. I got a toy squirrel on a stick with fishing line to shake for a visual. That tail gets to flopping and they lock on. We we sitting on a powerline pole in the middle of said hayfield fully expecting the yotes to come from the swamp so I had my buddy lined up with a rifle. I had my 12ga just incase one tried charging in from the pine thicket on my side. I caught movement and motioned for him to swing the rifle my way for a shot. That Cat was on its belly crawling in grass not even shin deep and all I could see was glimpses of the top of its ears and some grass moving. I wasnt sure what it was until it saw the decoy movement and bolted dead at us from about 30yrds. Let me tell you it was a split second and he covered 30yrds. I pushed his rifle barrel away and quick as I could threw up that 870 and hit it with a load of #1 Buckshot. I was straight instinct shooting, I dont remember aiming. Rolled the cat but it jumped up and took off and I had to hit it again 2'x's to stop it. I have killed several bobcats but that sneaky sucker reminded me to keep your head on a swivel. Scary how slick he was coming in. Had I been by myself I would have faced the swamp and never seen it coming. Great story by the old man and best of luck to him. I wished he could come by my buddy's camp in Selma and tell us some of those stories.

Several years ago I worked in a sporting goods store in Tuscaloosa while attending school. I sold an older gentleman a jacket he was going to use turkey hunting. A couple weeks later he came back in to purchase another one and he had the other one with him. It had some good torn up places on the shoulders and back. He had positioned himself against a blown down tree to call a turkey and a bobcat came over the tree from behind and got on top of him. He said it was a fight until the bobcat figured out he wasn't a turkey and the jacket had helped to keep him from getting scratched up badly.

I guess it was probably 25 years ago when I first met him. His camp house was full of old Polaroid pictures, a lot of them kids. He told me the number, and I can’t remember exactly, but I believe the number of kids who had killed their first deer with him was in the hundreds.

I think everyone in Selma gets cancer. Something in the water. He is the very definition of a Southern Gentleman. I haven't seen him in years.

Great story, the way he talks reminds me of T Henderson, they have a different accent around the Ferry

I think it happens more than many realize

Talked to a professional outside photographer back in the early 90s at a waterfowl show in Decatur. He was a retired marine turned photog in the outdoors. He had a friend at the time that was blinded by a bobcat in Arkansas. He was calling and shooting pics of some gobblers when the attack happened cat scratched his eyes out. Terrible situation

This guy wounds are close to his eyes.

He certainly is a real Southern gentleman. The Strothers are good people.

I have Stothers in my family tree but I didn’t get as good a dose of the turkey hunting prowess gene. I have had bobcats and coyotes approach when calling.