Wolves

[Silver03SRT]

I had a wolf in on my stand last weekend? Whats your take on them? Shoot them or no? I hunt in Clam Lake and not only do they eat a lot of deer they are killing a lot of the elk. I am not going to shoot them but wish I could.

[UnderPSI]

I wouldn't shoot them. There is more than enough deer to go around.

[Al]

I never saw one other than at the zoo.

Can you hear them howl at night?

[theavenger333]

i'm right by you, Radisson. there are some around, more then ever according to numbers, and from what farmers in the area say. i still wouldn't shoot them, besides, isn't is still illegal to shoot wolves? coyotes you can kill for the hell of it, but i thought wolves were a nono still

[That_Guy]

the neighboring property .."not to far from you" he had shot 2 wolves.. and the dnr trapped 3 on his property. the wolves where eating all his calf's.. the guys at the bar say gut shot them..or throw bacon grease soaked spunges out for them to eat and clogg up there system.. i saw a small pack of 3 of them when i was out hiking this summer.. i let them go im not willing to lose my privileges over something that eats 2 deer month. but that doesn't im a fan of them.. id just rather have somebody else take the fall

[DirtyMax]

I have seen a wolf/wolves on our property(near Crivitz) about 3 different times since the first time in 2002. Being an avid coyote hunter, I know the difference. This is on top of the countless tracks I see in our sandhill.

I would just leave them be but a lot of the townies say they will/have shot them in the guts so they go off and die. Bragging about that isnt the brightest idea IMO though... never know who's listening.

And yes, wolves are still off-limits.

[07ROUSHSTG3]

never seen one, however have seen tracks through my yard at my place in tomahawk. my buddies saw one while sledding by hurley, actually were able to hit the thing with a snowball, LOL! the locals say to shoot them, but if you get caught, it is big trouble. they are all over the place. they are down here too beleive it or not. really sucks to hear about them affecting the elk population though, i hope they do something before the elk get wiped out.


on another note, my buddy, who lives in tomahawk, tells me there was a moose sighting a couple weeks ago!! that is cool!

[GTSLOW]

I live sort of outside of madison and hear either wolves or coyotes every night when I leave the window open. I'd love to kill one of those howling bastards.

[07ROUSHSTG3]

I live sort of outside of madison and hear either wolves or coyotes every night when I leave the window open. I'd love to kill one of those howling bastards.

if they are yotes, have at it!

[SmokinRAM114]

Gut shoot them n be on ur way.. I hunt coyote fun stuff we chase with hounds n head em off at the next road. I have some good storys

[HITMAN]

Why is it that the smartest species on the planet is so stupid as to ascribe human rationale to a dumb beast?

I'm hardly some PETA wannabe, but why in the fuck would you gut shoot a wolf? To me, anyone that would do this isn't any better than those cocksuckers that ran over and tortured those deer with their snowmobiles last year. Inhumane treatment of an animal is just as low as you can go. It ranks right in there with infant abuse, because neither one of them knows why it is being tortured.

A wolf doesn't know what a pain in the ass you think it is. Do you really think that it gets the concept of crime and punishment? It isn't malicious, it doesn't do what it does to spite the humans it hunts near, it's just a stupid animal that does what it does because that what wolves have done for hundreds of thousands of years. They are pack hunters, and they eat when they are hungry. If it looks like a meal then they hunt it. Period. No more thought goes into it than that.

I can understand getting wolves to fear men and fear getting to close to where men live, but torturing them with gut shots won't drive the lesson into their limited brains any faster. If you are a land owner or cattleman and they are eating your livestock then fine, kill it. Shoot it clean. Don't torture the dammed thing with gut shots or other bullshit, just fucking kill it if it's doing you wrong. As for what a game warden would think, the DNR sure isn't going to distinguish between a gut-shot wolf or a clean kill. They both result in the same thing, a dead wolf. As a matter of fact, if I were a warden and I came across some sportsman gut-shooting anything out of malicious intent, I would crucify you to the full extent that I could.

[wikked]

^^^

[ThatWhiteCivic]

Agreed with Hitman. Love to see a wolf in its natural habitat.

[SmokinRAM114]

as soon as they venture down in this area and actually see the havoc they really do with personal animals, either pets or a farm animal youll want them gone too. but untill you actually have encounters with them, then i guess they will continue to be a large cute fluffy dog

[That_Guy]

as soon as they venture down in this area and actually see the havoc they really do with personal animals, either pets or a farm animal youll want them gone too. but untill you actually have encounters with them, then i guess they will continue to be a large cute fluffy dog

i was talking to a friend who hunts up there.. they where bear hunting "with dogs" something i don't agree with to much but i digress. they lost 3 out of the 6 dogs last weekend to wolves.. apparently the bells they wear around there neck so the hunters know about where there dogs are act as a dinner bell.

[HITMAN]

as soon as they venture down in this area and actually see the havoc they really do with personal animals, either pets or a farm animal youll want them gone too. but untill you actually have encounters with them, then i guess they will continue to be a large cute fluffy dog

OK Jackass, where did I say it was a big fluffy dog? If you'd bothered to actually read what I wrote, you'd understand that I said shoot the damn thing if you need to, just do it clean with the same humanity you'd give a deer you were going to shoot. Or perhaps you're just one of the idiots that just likes to kill anything that moves with any old sloppy shot.

I'll say it again so you get it. A wolf is not a human. It doesn't have reasoning powers, it's not evil, it doesn't get that you don't like it and want it gone. It's a predator, and when it gets the gnawing in it's belly that says "I'm hungry!" it doesn't get to hop in it's car and head to the nearest McDonald's for a Big Mac and fries, it has to hunt and kill it's prey. Unfortunately for pet and livestock owners, it's prey just happens to be what ever it and it's pack can bring down. How does this instinctive behavior warrant a gut shot? Do you really think that the wolf is going to have an epiphany and finally understand that it's an evil beast, and that it deserves to die a slow, painful death? Or do you think it just crawls off somewhere and dies in agony without ever knowing why? I repeat, a wolf is an unreasoning beast. If it's causing problems, eliminate it, but do it with some understanding and humanity. It deserves nothing more or nothing less than a clean kill.

You want to blame somebody for the wolves and the assoiated problems with them, blame the meddlesome do-gooder bleeding heart animal activists. They pushed for the wolves to be reintroduced back into an environment they are never going to be welcomed back in. You wanna gut shoot something, go and shoot them and tell 'em why. They'll at least understand what you're saying to them...

[HITMAN]

i was talking to a friend who hunts up there.. they where bear hunting "with dogs" something i don't agree with to much but i digress. they lost 3 out of the 6 dogs last weekend to wolves.. apparently the bells they wear around there neck so the hunters know about where there dogs are act as a dinner bell.

Heh, I guess it would never occur to a bear that it could kill a dog without too much effort...

Corner a wolf and corner a bear and see which one hands you your head in about five seconds. I wouldn't want to face either one, but if left with no alternative, I'd take my chances with a wolf.

[ThatWhiteCivic]

We can pretend we live on the edge of wilderness here, but that's not the case. I'm more worried about a pack of racoons than a wolf/wolves within 300 miles of here.

[07ROUSHSTG3]

go up north to ashland county, where the wolves are pretty bad and listen to some of the stories. they are wreaking havoc up there and will soon be doing the same around here. my buddy and his 5 year old kid were checking bear baits last year when the kid wanted to go back to the cabin. they were only about 100 yards from the cabin and within sight, so the kid ran back. my buddy finished checking the last bait and started walking back. noticed that behind his kids footprints in the snow, were a set of wolf tracks that were not there before. scared the shit out of him. luckily the kid made it inside safely, but the wolf did circle the cabin. they are aggresive and i beleive that they should be controlled with before they get out of hand, which if you spend any amount of time in the northwoods, most would say they are already at that point.

[07ROUSHSTG3]

Heh, I guess it would never occur to a bear that it could kill a dog without too much effort...

Corner a wolf and corner a bear and see which one hands you your head in about five seconds. I wouldn't want to face either one, but if left with no alternative, I'd take my chances with a wolf.

you will never have an encounter with one wolf. you may only see one, but they do not hunt alone.

i would take me chance with a bear vs a pack of wolves.