Idaho Wolves ... Not for the timid to look at, but real

[USNative]

Since the Idaho Wolves Pics I posted are apparently not real , I got rid of them. Here's a Montana Wolf that Is Real and was shot at the Annual Montana Wolf Hunt. Pretty BIG Huh? Wolves here get as big as the ones in Idaho.

Here, enjoy a Real Wolf Pic!

[H-D]

Dang all we have here are coyotes and coy dog mixes but a wild half rottweiler is spooky to see in the woods

[hunter29180]

attacks by wolves that are in this good shape are so rare..what 5 documented wolf attacks in last 50 years?? and 3 of those were females protecting the den area that the hunters had approached to close....even the Indians have so very few legends or storys of wolf attacks except when starving or protecting the den or young...

[Capt Mac Turk]

Well I guess thats a good point of living where I'm at.
I Never seen nutt'in like that beast!

[cycloneman]

why do you need tags? looks like you should get a free t shirt if you turn one in.

[USNative]

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[rcairflr]

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[USNative]

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[Dennis C]

Those wolves are huge! Wouldn't want to meet them in the dark of night.

[joncutt87]

I want a wolf tag

[rcairflr]

Originally Posted by USNative

? what? LOL

I think you know ?

[USNative]

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[millwright]

Your proposition ought to be easy to answer. We're the examples dogs or bitches ? From the size, I'd suspect the latter, but I'm not familiar with wolf size/sex characteristics . >MW

[USNative]

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[Zhurh]

A teacher was killed and drug into the brush a mile from a village out in the Aleutians last year. She had just been in Ak maybe 2 months, just outta college, was out jogging; no pistol; nobody does that here in Alaska. The wolves had been making their rounds, strolling through the village (quite common, even in our community) picking off local dogs. F&G brought in the helicopter and shot 7-8 of them pretty quick; no more problems.

Most wolves I see are spooked of man, they get shot. Several years, we had yearlings, 80 lbers walk up our lane and sit down 10 yards from porch, looking at my dogteam on chains. My dogs would have killed the pup if they could have broke chains. When I walked out on porch, pup got up and wandered off into the woods. Never had seen people I figure.

I see wolf tracks on my wood lot trails some years. See wolves on river and in summer along bank, hard to shoot in a boat, crosshairs all over the wolf. We see the most wolves when caribou are around which they follow. If you know where the caribou are crossing, you set on down and you'll see wolves every couple hours. Having wolves all over the place, you'd think I'd kill more but I don't. Hunting to me has become only about fresh meat, could care less about nice racks, 65 inch bulls; sport hunting here is almost sacraligous. So I rarely shoot wolves when I'm out sitting for moose & caribou; and that's when I see most of them.

We have big wolves up here, but most the ones you see are 110-120 lbers, the dumb ones.

[fuzebox40]

Hey, it's just information.

[BlackEagle]

Originally Posted by Capt Mac Turk

Well I guess thats a good point of living where I'm at.
I Never seen nutt'in like that beast!

Alligators?

[raven818]

If the many documentaries we see about wolves are true, we wouldn't have dogs for pets w/o the wolf first approaching us.

[BlackEagle]

Nice wolves. Do people do anything with the skins these days? Thanks for the pics.

Zhurh, I agree. I always hunted to fill the freezer or for pest control.

[Brisk44]

I used to have an Arctic wolf but he lives with my oldest daughter in Alaska now. But man they don't look anything alike. My baby is snow white but only weighs 80 lbs. or so. Nothing like those monsters. Hope my girl don't meet up with one or more of them.

[hoodedmonk]

A friend of mine saw one out hiking by St. Helens and My Brother inlaw who lives in Weston OR. has seeen them in the Blue mtns. I havent heard of to many problems around WA./Or. However If Idaho has anything to teach us........

[76Highboy]

Originally Posted by hoodedmonk

A friend of mine saw one out hiking by St. Helens and My Brother inlaw who lives in Weston OR. has seeen them in the Blue mtns. I havent heard of to many problems around WA./Or. However If Idaho has anything to teach us........

Where I hunt, deer populations are wwwaaaayyyyy down. The deear used to herd around the canyons just above and below the forest line where I hunt. Now, the deer sign is low. Back in October of 2010, I saw a hunter loading his horse into a trailer by about 10:30am one day while hunting,,, and it has always been a primo area. He just shook his head and said, "There's nothing here,,, nothing". He said that he'd been hunting there for about 15 years (I am 46 and have been hunting there since I was 8 ) and that the past several years it's been bad. But he said that day in 2010, that he'd been out for about 4 hours and saw nothing (I saw a fawn and that was it). However, up in the forest line, the wolf tracks were everywhere and the wolves were slaughtering the Elk. He said that the Elk were only partially eaten by the wolves. When a horseman can't find the deer, youn know that's bad. But the good news,,, the government has reassured us,,, the deer and elk populations are fine,,, and the wolves aren't thinning the herds. I guess a hunter like a horseman doesn't know a thing about those mountains.

[Zhurh]

We have a couple locals who every winter trap a dozen wolves, couple wolverine, few lynx, and a bunch of marten. They tan everything but the marten (which they sell to fur buyer). They sell the tanned hides to the tourists who want to take a wolf hide home with them, ect. No joke, the tourists go crazy for those hides and pay anywhere from 300-500 for a nice wolf hide. A couple locals make hats & caribou parkas with beadwork & fur ruffs. I use beaver hats in winter, just so warm. A couple locals have wolverine hats that go clear down their back; rich looking as all heck.

Friends & relatives from lower 48 come up hunting for caribou & moose and we always shoot a couple wolves for them to take back, but like I said before; I see wolves often when I'm out waiting on moose and don't even consider shooting them and ruin my night of hunting and maybe getting a moose which is way more important. I'm allowed 2 grizz every year, have sent relatives boiled out claws, they make necklaces. Nowadays, they got all kinds of laws concerning transfer of animal parts & hides, just not worth dealing with all the bull & paperwork so I don't get involved with it, only with relatives.

Here in Alaska, each wolf and we have 25,000 of them eats 6 moose/year. Bear take 85% of calf production every June. So when you see they harvest 250,000 moose in Sweden and not 1/4 that many moose in Alaska; it's because in Sweden they have like 6 wolves and keep it that way. So you guys in lower 48 take heed, the predators are going to quickly change hunting as you know it; probably have seen it already too.

Any of your friends talk about going hunting in Alaska, tell them to always plan on shooting some wolves while moose & caribou hunting; they are everywhere once you get out in the sticks.

[Albtraum]

Wow! Never thought they could get that big.