Those CZ's have great fit and finish! And having one in .17 HMR just makes it that much better~!
I know it might sound counter intuitive, but give those 15.5gr Hornady NTX .17 HMR loads a try first on the Bobcat.
.223 Rem 55gr TSX at close range (25yd) for me, was pretty gnarly in terms of hole. Not that the Taxidermist had any problem sewing it, but the shot did hit the spine by the front shoulders and took out a whole section of the spine, so the hole could have been much much smaller.
Seeing how violently those 15.5gr have completely gutted rabbits where the shot was more toward the middle of the body... I'd bet that round we be just about right for taking out a Bobcat without ripping it up so bad.
You can also try to use the Hornady 35gr NTX .223 Rem, if you believe there is good likelihood of more than 100yd shot. It's hole size depends a lot on how much bone got hit on path thru the body. It's screaming along at 4000fps! It wasn't too bad on my last coyote, but the exit wound was a little bigger than the entry wound because the exit wound clipped the tip of the coyotes elbow on it's way out, so a lil bit more diameter, just because it happened to hit some bone. Left a GREAT blood trail out of the yote though!
But yeah, if I was purposefully going out for Bobcat, it'd be 17HMR with caller about 35yds away and calling them into within 50yds or less. Try out the 15.5gr NTX's or the CCI TNT Greens in 17gr. See which one you like better.
With the 15.5gr ones, first time I tried them out of my Savage 93R17, I set up an old spent 12ga cartridge I found on the ground. Set it onto a log LRF'd at 80yds away. Was able to hit it first try off the lil Kwik Stix shooting sticks. It's capable of insane accuracy that just makes ya feel like Zeuss throwin' lightning bolts around!
But I would say that if visibility is more limited in the terrain you're in, to like 50-70yds tops in any one direction... I dunno...I just might be inclined to just use a shotgun stoked with like... some kind of Duck/Goose load. Maybe a heavier than lead option in something like one of the top-3 sizes below BB that Duck/Goose loads come in. Like #1-thru-#3 perhaps?
Important thing with Bobcats is make sure you're sit spot gives you maximum FOV of the area all around your eCaller. They are soo stealth you can begin to stand-up from your sit you've been holding for 45min straight holding the rifle towards the caller, because your sit placement was poorly chosen... and as you begin to raise to standing (in full concealment gear)... you realize there's a Bobcat 8yds to your extreme right, laying down behind a piece of rabbit-brush! And DEFINITELY remember to try to put the morning sun into the critters eyes if you can! In terms of how you place the caller in the space related to where you are gonna take your sit at in the space.
If you've got concealment gear on, you've chosen your sit spot well, and you can hold still and not move much. You'd be amazed how much you can see and how much movement you can actually get away with around coyotes. But don't you dare make a sound they can zero in on, in-between the quiet parts of the eCaller playing! They sure seem to trust their hearing, a lot! So if you do have to make a sound, it better be extremely brief, quiet, and you better get ready to hold-still for quite some time after needing to make that sound. If the eCaller is still wailing all this time, and you've got the Motion decoy going, pretty quick they'll revert their focus back over to the Decoy and eCaller.
