IDAHO WOLF UPDATE WITH PICTURES

Tell the old-man he isn't allowed to take the 264 anymore, I remember the last time I was there and he used it....
 
An animal that size with thick winter fur would be harder to bring down than a Texas Whitetail.

Not to be a downer, but using a 70gr. hollow point on such an animal was a terrible idea, obviously. Hopefully you learned a valuable lesson about proper bullet selection for the animal your hunting.
 
If you have a gps I'd go back and look for him. You may not find sign but I've found more than a few wounded critters going back in with gps and doing grid searches. Keep going in the direction he was headed and take your time. He'll likely stay on a pretty straight path and if you guys went in 1/4mile or so he may have bedded very close to where you left off.
The gps allows you to feel pretty confident you've covered an area well and you can then move in deeper.

An example would be if he was heading due north when you left the track, go 100yds west 300yds north 200yds east 300yds south 100yds west and you've made the grid. Now go search that whole grid. Gps is really not needed just a compass but it helps. I know we don't aim to wound animals but retrieving an animal after a proper search is very rewarding.

The bad thing is coyotes and wolves will eat their own and there may not be much left but hey the skull will still make a cool trophy. Congrats on the cool experience and great write up. Ryan
 
I'm jealous you even get to pop a cap at a wolf! All I get are these skinny little yotes around here.

Cool write up and pics. Keep us up on the next one!
 
Man that sucks on the wolf!!

Displayed Name- I thought that coyotes were one of the few animals that won't cannibalize their own kind? And when they do kill eachother that it's just territorial and they leave the carcass?
 
Have you tried the Barnes 85 TSX? I use it in .243 on game. Probably would have anchored your wolf with a head-on center-chest shot and been found near his rear end.
Also, if there is any water nearby, search near it.
 
Originally Posted By: jinxed247Man that sucks on the wolf!!

Displayed Name- I thought that coyotes were one of the few animals that won't cannibalize their own kind? And when they do kill eachother that it's just territorial and they leave the carcass?

i seen a documentary on Alaskan or Canadian trapping i cant remember which country, any who A trapper caught a coyote in his trap late winter and when he went to go get her she was completely decimated. the wolves got to her and ate her alive while her foot was the only thing left on the foot trap.
 
My dad and his friend went back to the spot where we lost the sign and blood and watched for ravens and buzzards. They waited for about a half an hour and then let out a coyote challenge howl with a mouth call and immediately heard several wolves howling in the area where we lost the original wolf. They waited another 20 min and no wolves showed up. We think that the others ate the dead wolf. I am gonna shoot a buck in the first couple days and get my butt back up there and bag one...hopefully. Updates to follow. I was out of town this weekend or else I would have been out there with the old man and his friend.
 
jinxed- this photo might get taken off but this is what coyotes will do to each other. Scenario was buddy shot coyote at the last legal shooting time before dark and it made it into the woods.
He called me that night and we met up the next morning to go look for it. This is what I found and coyote is the largest predator we have in the woods. That summer/fall was literally busting with field mice so there was no shortage of food and temperatures were still warm.

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I've seen the exact same scenario with wolves right next to a fully stocked bait site. edit it was mid winter in Ontario



 
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My brother and I went out to the same spot where my dad and I had shot the wolf. We called for just under an hour when, what we thought was a wolf appeared about 100 yards away from us. The apparent wolf must of smelled us and bolted to the far east side of the unit. My brother let out a jackrabbit distress and the animal stopped at about 250 yards broadside. He fired his .270, 130 grain hornady spiral point and dropped the apparent wolf with a single shot. We celebrated of course and went down the unit to retrieve the wolf. When we got to the wolf, we realized that my brother had shot a large coyote. Upon realizing that he had not killed a wolf, he was extremely dissapointed.

So long story short, my brother made an impressive shot on a monster coyote...unfortunately we left the camera in the truck and he was so dissapointed that we didnt even check the sex of the yote. I was glad that we finally anchored an animal, but still are looking to for the elusive wolf.
 
hang that coyote in the tree. GO back and use that .264 and bag another from that pack! I can't see them going to far.

Hope that black one you shot was the alpha as well.
 
I had an exciting hunt this year looking for wolves but never got the trophy shot I was hoping for. We put up a total of 10 stands having some kind of K9 activity on all but three. I know that the wolf I shot is dead, but it still makes me sick that could not recover him.

I have talked to a lot of people in the Central Idaho area and very few of them are calling wolves. Most kills are "happen to see one" kills. Calling is definetly doable and I will be back up in Idaho next year trying to "TAG" the elusive wolf.

Thanks for all the Input and responses prior to and during my hunt.
 
great story,you weren't under gunned just the wrong bullet i think.i went on my first hunt and the deer hunt started and messed everything up i will get one though even if i have to spend a month doing it.
 
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