Got a question from you folks from Alaska I know the wolf is superior in winding how many of you guys from up north actually ever see any and how many did you ever shoot. A few years back took a trip up to Cochrane Ontario wolf tracks everywhere if there was any more you would think they would jump out from behind a bush. Rabbits everywhere to at dusk sure that is why all the wolf tracks. Would of loved to have seen one of the critters. Asked guide if it was practical to have a hunt for them he said no just to good at winding most of the kills he had had come into bear bait in the spring by his clients. Thanks
Wolves and sightings?
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hi even though i have not ever hunted wolves. i do hunt alot.in my 33 years i have only seen 5 wolves my whole life.not because there not here. they are very shy if thats the word to use. many times when im moose hunting is when like you i have seen so mant tracks and i scratch my head wondering why i have never seen one. out of the 5 ive seen 1 was over a bait.
I live in Ontario and I was a dogger (for a couple years) for an outfitter here who has wolves down to a science
That's me with a big charcoal we got this year...(7mm rem mag) That's the boss cleaning a big tan colored one (.270 semi). We bait, call, push, chase...you name it, we do it. We get wolves! (within an hour of Cochrane). You wanna get set-up, I'll give you the outfitter's number.
I'm currently using a Tom Talker howler/ distress kit, and I've had response (but no success). I think the guide you were talking to recognized the amount of work involved...but it's not impossible. As I've said in other paragraphs: Timbers cover a lot of ground. your liklihood of being in the right place at the right time, is very low. BUT, If you bait them (and they have 50 lbs of meat in their stomach, they stay close to the pile... ;-)
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Cheers and good luck
That's me with a big charcoal we got this year...(7mm rem mag) That's the boss cleaning a big tan colored one (.270 semi). We bait, call, push, chase...you name it, we do it. We get wolves! (within an hour of Cochrane). You wanna get set-up, I'll give you the outfitter's number.
I'm currently using a Tom Talker howler/ distress kit, and I've had response (but no success). I think the guide you were talking to recognized the amount of work involved...but it's not impossible. As I've said in other paragraphs: Timbers cover a lot of ground. your liklihood of being in the right place at the right time, is very low. BUT, If you bait them (and they have 50 lbs of meat in their stomach, they stay close to the pile... ;-)
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Cheers and good luck
Alaskan Wolfer
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I moved to Alaska eight years ago and have seen wolves almost every year.
Just covering a lot of miles doesn't nesasarily mean you will see wolves. You have to look for them.
Last year was my high year for sightings, I seen wolfes at least a dozen times. Once I had four wolves standing on the river bank looking at me while I was crossing toward them to make a mink set.
I had looked right at them but didn't see them, they blended perfectly with the brush in the low light. I realized they were there when one of them sounded off with a strange bark.
A couple weeks later, my partner and I were checking mink sets about a mile up river from that other close sighting when a wolf stepped out on the ice about 30 yards up river. I told my partner to "duck" (he was between me and the wolf) the wolf bolted and I shot him in the kneck.
AW
Just covering a lot of miles doesn't nesasarily mean you will see wolves. You have to look for them.
Last year was my high year for sightings, I seen wolfes at least a dozen times. Once I had four wolves standing on the river bank looking at me while I was crossing toward them to make a mink set.
I had looked right at them but didn't see them, they blended perfectly with the brush in the low light. I realized they were there when one of them sounded off with a strange bark.
A couple weeks later, my partner and I were checking mink sets about a mile up river from that other close sighting when a wolf stepped out on the ice about 30 yards up river. I told my partner to "duck" (he was between me and the wolf) the wolf bolted and I shot him in the kneck.
AW
Chuck Buster
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Hi Alaskan Wolfer,
That sure sounds great living up there where you are. I have dreamed about hunting in Alaska ever since I was a teenager now I am in my mid sixties and will probably never get there. I do think that we have something in common though, I John 3:1.
Chuck Buster
That sure sounds great living up there where you are. I have dreamed about hunting in Alaska ever since I was a teenager now I am in my mid sixties and will probably never get there. I do think that we have something in common though, I John 3:1.
Chuck Buster