Topgun 30-06
Well-Known Member
When I mentioned UP I meant that literally and not north, LOL!!!
Gone BallisticI have to laugh at you wanna-be John Wayne type wolf slayers out there. You really show your lack of knowledge and boisterus personnas when you shout out that you are capable of killing wolves entering your states of residence. To me, it puts you in the same category of ignorance that people sending money into the anti's are in. You are ingnorant and inept!
It's far greater to remain silent and thought a fool than to open thy mouth and remove all doubt!
Interestingly. We never hear about this or hydatid or the rest of the secrets from RMEF, Mule Deer Foundation, NRA or any other large organizations. One has to wonder why they help keep these secrets. Any of you that are members should write them a letter.We never read or hear anything about that either.
I had an interesting wolf encounter last week here in Western Montana. It made itself seen at close range and walked like it was injured and tail between its legs....then dissapeared in the brush. This happened while I was in my truck with my dog in back. I was at the same location with my dog on foot an hour earlier.
My guess is that it was a habitual dog killer baiting one in for the kill. My dog is female and fixed so it seems doubtful that it was in heat, using that as a lure.
The intention of my comment is that none of us are going to be able to take enough wolves out to undo the damage they have caused and will continue to do. The only way they were finally brought down the first time was through massive use of 10-80 poison, which has been banned for years. They become extremely nocturnal after very little hunting pressure. Hunters will have a difficult time keeping their current numbers in check, if they can even do that. For one to state that their trusty Winchester willl take care of any and all wolves entering their state is boisterus at best. I've been against the introduction of the wolf ever since they started raising the first pack of them under chain-link containment 80 miles north of where I live. I come from a family of pioneer ranchers from eastern Idaho that had to deal with massave depredation of their livestock before they were erradicated the first time. Let me also state that we didn't have the Canadian Gray Wolf back then, but a much smaller Western Timber Wolf of which the count of approximately 80 animals remained within the Yellowstone Eco-System before the Canadians were released. I'm reasonably sure that the Canadian Wolf has now wiped them out to extinction. We never read or hear anything about that either.