Wolf Hunting... which state is BEST???

[WYO300RUM]

Wuh those wolves are huge. Good job taking them out.

I'm betting the black one is 150+ . That hunter is a friend of a friend's son. He said he's 6'2" tall. The one in first photo may go 120+. Middle photo don't know. They are standing behind the wolf. Like stretching your arms out with a buck to make look bigger. I know the fur will make them look bigger but I know my Chesapeake weighs 92 pds. All 3 have something in common. Snow (snow on kid's tennis shoes not on man's moccasins? ) And pretty sure all are males, not real sure on middle photo.

 

[bigngreen]

Unlimited food in Yellowstone allowed them to have massive litters of pups. Wolf pack are family groups. The whole alpha thing was a lie. Large families equal large packs. You get packs of 50 running around, they are going to kill a lot of animal.

Your not tracking, Im asking why the wolf packs that were here in SW Montana prior to the Canadian wolves being introduced didn't explode into super packs given the same opportunities to if their the exact same wolf?

 

[VLD Pilot]

I'm betting the black one is 150+ . That hunter is a friend of a friend's son. He said he's 6'2" tall. The one in first photo may go 120+. Middle photo don't know. They are standing behind the wolf. Like stretching your arms out with a buck to make look bigger. All 3 have something in common. Snow (snow on kid's tennis shoes not on man's moccasins? ) And pretty sure all are males, not real sure on middle photo.

That middle picture looks like Remmy Warren.

 

[WYO300RUM]

I hunted in region r for mule deer and unit45 for elk and was told by fish and game to shoot every wolf i saw and they would give me a tag for it.

What state ?

 

[WYO300RUM]

That middle picture looks like Remmy Warren.

It kinda does with lighter hair.

 

[Werley2262]

Wyoming

What st

 

[daniel brothers]

Idaho will give you a $2000.00 bounty in some counties.

 

[Marky_mark]

Your not tracking, Im asking why the wolf packs that were here in SW Montana prior to the Canadian wolves being introduced didn't explode into super packs given the same opportunities to if their the exact same wolf?

They were probably near equilibrium with their prey
If they were larger, they may have struggled to keep the entire pack healthy and fed
Theres a million variables
But when they were released in yellowstone and able to grow exponentionally, it changed the entire dynamic
Huge pack sizes enabled the largest groups to establish the biggest and best areas. They learned that the larger the pack, the more dominant they would be.
We dont get the huge packs here. The small ones are bad enough. If it was up to me I would poison them all

 

[WYO300RUM]

Wyoming

If a game warden said that here he's pushing his luck and full of crp. He may feel that way but he has no legal authority to issue any tags let alone a single wolf tag. Good thing you didn't... If you were in no quota zones on BLM, Don't need tags. I'm not familiar with your zones but if you were you didn't need tags.

 

[gunner1stclass]

They are the same wolves plain and simple.
They kill your animals just as easily as they kill ours
If you dont think we have the same problem as you, your greatly mistaken
Most people overestimate the size of them too, the average canadian wolf is roughly 110 lbs. Big ones are 140. 200lb wolves are imaginary

Sorry but i personally have seen 2 in WY that went 165 and 1 at 183#. the one at183 was on a scale and he was nearly as big as me.

 

[calling4life]

You do realize that seeing a wolf or two that has gone... whatever pounds, isn't disproving anything, right?

Out of the how many thousands of wolves you guys claim are everywhere, you guys are giving accounts of a few wolves...

You do know how averages work, yes?
Just like how black bears up to 1100lbs have been found doesn't mean black bears are 900+ lbs.

Our DNR talks about live trapping 800lb black bears, you know the average size black bear shot here? It's about 140lbs.

So one off wolves that are 160, 180, etc pounds doesn't mean anything other than they can get that big, and that's a far cry from them being that big in general.

And it doesn't make an average of, say 110lbs any less true. And for what it's worth, Idaho fish and game says 70-110 for males and 60-80 for females. So, 90lbs for males to hit the middle, 70 for female, and to combine them, that'd be an 80lb average... or thereabouts(depending upon sex numbers). MNs International wolf center notes the average male wolf in MN to be about 70-85lbs.

Anyways now in MN they are claiming our average wolf pack is about 3.6 wolves. I'm really beginning to wonder what they're doing with this stuff, isn't 3 a minimum size possible to even be considered a pack?

Doesn't even sound plausible that it's that low, does it sound better to say we have 1,000 packs at 3.6 wolves/pack vs 500 packs at 7.2... or are our wolves starting to become more individualistic?

They noted pack size from 2-7 but is 2 a pack? I mean wouldn't you have to have 3 at least to be a pack, 2 is a pair. Are they getting more funding if pack size is small or what's going on

Maybe the wolves are shacking up with coyotes because they're better company... who knows I guess.

Anyways, it's amusing to see the number of wolves killed by the USDA here, but hey, we can't have a hunting season, I'd hate to bring money in when we could instead pay for a Gov't agent to "manage" them.

 

[WYO300RUM]

Sorry but i personally have seen 2 in WY that went 165 and 1 at 183#. the one at183 was on a scale and he was nearly as big as me.

Gunner. If I see an Elkasaurus in the woods here I'm buying a tag.

 

[Werley2262]

If a game warden said that here he's pushing his luck and full of crp. He may feel that way but he has no legal authority to issue any tag let alone a single wolf tag. Good thing you didn't... If you were in no quota zones on BLM, Don't need tags. I'm not familiar with your zones but if you were you didn't need tags.

I was hunting blm land in the western slopes of the bighorn mountains I'm just telling you what was said to myself and my hunting party.

 

[bob812]

Yes sir they did, I was working for a biologist in Idaho when decided to do it and he as livid, he predicted what has happened right on the nose. Every local biologist recommendation was round filed!

Right on the nose 100%. I worked with a wolf study here in Western Canada for a bit and ask biologist the same question. If they didn't think they were going to start a s**** show and most who said yes pretty much ended up on the blacklist up here.