Wolves

I see the total so far with 30 minutes left to register, that 30 wolves got shot today… anyone here on ido lucky enough to pull the trigger on one today?

first weekend for me 0. never heard one or seen a fresh track in our area. go figure. next weekend things can change.
Wallster ><((((>

I wish I was still living up in Ely, I would definately be hunting them.. Maybe next weekend one will run across your path.

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I wish I was still living up in Ely, I would definately be hunting them.. Maybe next weekend one will run across your path.

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The NE zone isn’t going to see many kills. Not by hunters anyhow. A grand total of 22 were taken in the NE zone this weekend. I saw one while scouting for deer. Tough weekend overall. Saw 2 does, 1 grouse and a young wolf.

On the radio this AM they said that 50 kills were registered for the first 2 days.

But from there, the DNR anticipates that kills will fall sharply as more than half of all deer hunters hunt less than 3 days per season.

Also, I’ll bet there’s some number of wolves out there who have suddenly realized via the crack of a bullet zipping past them that game has changed and they are no longer the untouchables on top of the food chain.

Speaking to the ranch manager this weekend where we hunt and for this year they have had 4 DNR confirmed wolf kills of cattle which includes 2 stock cows and 2 calves.

They also have 9 other “lost” calves that simply disappeared. The cow dropped the calf somewhere at sometime, but no sign of it was ever seen. He freely admits that calves die of all kinds of causes and in a normal year they will 3-5 of these cases with their stock cows. 9, however, is a very high number historically for them on a spread that runs 1000 head and they strongly suspect that several of these may also be wolf kills.

Bottom line is that the number of trapped and shot wolves will need to be vastly increased in order to bring the population back into control. As I predicted, success rates are so far very, very low.

Grouse

My friend shot this one a few weeks ago. I guess it was a male that weighed 117 lbs. He is still up deer hunting in the middle of nowhere, so I’m not sure of any other details.

cool, is he really staying in a teepee????

Yeah, they are pretty hardcore. They canoe into their hunting spot, so they leave the posts in the same spot every year and then pack the canvas in and out. I guess he saw 3 wolves and this one gave him the best shot.

Very cool!