In Idaho, she shot 3 times and wolf was stopped 10 ft away.

What a honker!!!!

MAN!!!!! They are huge!!!

That's my kind of girl- good lookin' and shoots good.

buggers can get up to 130-140#s. The Libtards and their judges, say we need to have'm in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, etc.. Paid the Canadians 1.5 million per breeding pair, to get them back. The Canucks laughed ALL the way to the bank!

Doc

Wolves.... SMOKE A PACK A DAY!!!

If that doesn't get your heart pumping I dont know what will!

Man that is one stud horse of a wolf,I had no idea they got that big.

A pistol beats a stick and string every time. I don't think it was comming in to make friends. The lady throws a nice, "Welcome to the neighborhood party".

Is there a story on it somewhere? I've never heard of a charging (individual) wolf.

What a rug that sucker would make!
Wow

Yea, I've come face to face with a few, and some bigs ones, and they wanted nothing to do with me. Most will sit tight and not move until they have no choice, and then they run like hell. I nearly stepped on one that had been aware of me for a long time, as it was lying about 10 yards from the tree I had been posted in all AM. When I got down and started a still hunt I got too close and the reed grass came alive like the movie Tremors as that dog took off, and that was a big Timber.

Introducing the wolves back into the United States was a bit mistake. Now the elk hunters are suffering because of this.

nature is a puzzle. when i was young, we would limit out on pheasants, every day for the first two weeks of the month long season. On weekends we would be limited out by noon- that was four to six of us hunting behind setters and pointers. then the birds disappeared, and i know you think that it was because we were game hogs, but one of our party was the head biollogist from the DEC. He claimed that we weren't the deciding factor in the demise of the pheasant population. claimed it was due to changing agricultural practices and loss of habitat. I trapped and hunted foxes all thru high school and college, during that time I chased coon dogs all night long and never once saw or heard a coyote, in 1978 the coyotes moved into Livingston county. We killed eight that first year, and knew of maybe a dozen others that were caught or killed by the predator callers, they have been around ever since they are great sport, but we can't get rid of them. When you see what a forty pound coyote does to deer and sheep, it's not hard to imagine what kind of damage a 100+ pound canine killing machine can do. Makes me wonder what were they thinkin about when they brought them back and then thought they were going to protect them.

gotta love the govt. here in Oregon they stopped use of dog for bears and cats as well as baiting for bears. Within a couple years the writing was on the wall and now the wolves. I just read a new report stating that we have two new packs in OR. A cat will kill one elk a week or around 3 deer. We have been dessimated by predation and poor game management. In oregon we can't use deadly force on a wolf until it actually has physically attacked someone. I guess they figure people would just shoot them and say they felt threatened. Personally I figure there is a reason wolves and grizzly's were wiped out to begin with, primarily the fact that they don't play well with people or livestock. It shouldn't be too much longer before the grizzly's are here too.

For a while in the Empire state they allowed us to use dogs on bear - in the Adirondack Park and if your pack was registered with the DEC and certified clean- dogs had to be proofed by the ECO- I knew a handler that had a returning client(NYC Dr.) that brought more clients from the Big Apple to catch and release - they bought liscences and they paid trophy fees to take pictures and they were happy to follow the dogs and pay their money , but the folks in charge decided that chasing bears with dogs wasn't sporting so that ended that.

the problme we had here was they put it up to a vote and took it out of the hands of ODFW. Unfortunately just like in political elections the geographical majority of the state is controlled by lefties in Portland and they are spreading like cancer. They got p/od because fish and game instituted a new program effective next year to issue limited permits to predator control specialist that use dogs. I can tell you from talking to some ranchers that if a wolff gets after their stock and it dosn't have a collar it will dissapear. I met a guy from USDA that hunts for a living. He finds a local person with dogs and kills cougars and nuisance bears all around the state. If an area starts taking losses from cats he gets moved into that area and kills cats on ranch properties until the problem is gone, how would you like to have his job. He probably makes 6 figures with federal benefits and pension and gets to go hunting all the time on govt's dime. After I go to know him I asked him if he thought I could go along sometime and he asked if I had access to hounds which I don't so he told me he figured he had killed plenty so he would give me a call but we moved within a few weeks of that conversation.

In Nebraska they introduced mountain lions back into the ecosystem to help control the whitetail deer problem. What a pain. You can only kill a cat if you or your livestock are in danger.

As for wolves, a large male with a radio collar was killed by a group of coyote hunters in central Nebraska about 4 years ago. The wolf had migrated from upper Wisconson/Minnesota border. Man did they sock it to those guys with fines.

Why would a wolf wander that far when it has plenty of food in the forest?

Once again our wonderful game and parks is secretly trying to re-establish the prairie wolf as a means to control the whitetail deer heards.

in Illinois where the DNR put the grey wolf in our wonderful state,the hunting guide says they won't bother humans.....now that your done laughing,no wonder our country is in a mess with knuckleheads like this running things!!

You go girl! That is one huge animal. Sure would like to hear the story as it's unusual for a lone wolf to take on a human. Good shootin'!

One of the prices we pay for FREEDOM; politicions voting on things they know nothing about. If they did know something about it they would still vote along party lines.

The three "P,s" of politics;

Personal career
Party
People

In that order.

That pix was posted on another site by the son of the lady in the pix. She is a hunting guide and has seen many wolves and never before had one come at her. Tough gal and a fine cool headed marksman. Good on her. One GOOD wolf

I really wish I could agree with you on freedom. I personally don't believe we have many freedoms in this country. Yeah we have many favorable gun laws but everything else is pretty oppressed.

As for the wolves, remember they are a part of nature. We killed them off and it is our duty as hunters, conservationists, to restore them, and keep them in check. I get so angry when I hear hunters wishing for the eradication of any NATIVE species. There's what, less than 3000 wolves in the lower 48? How much damage can they really be doing? If I remember correctly there have been 5 people killed in the US from wolves in the past 100 years, with 3 of them being from pet wolves. The other 2 are questionable.

The one we had in Alaska last year where a 32 yr old teacher was killed on the edge of her village wasn't questionable at all...
While there may only be 5 deaths in the last 100 yrs (I have no clue if that's a valid #) there have been FAR more attacks
As to how much damage 3000 wolves can really do, you would be amazed. Remember, their range is fairly small. The elk herds in Montana & much of Idaho are flat being decimated.

I'm sorry, I just can't believe in reintroducing wolves back into a state that once was prairie but is now one giant corn field. Wolves have no place in the midwest.

Ask the outfitters of Montana, Idaho, and other states that have the wolf back if they aren't loosing money all in the name of conservation.

Far more attacks? There have been about 2 dozen in the last century according to this article

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35913715/ns/...e/#.TozMEpsr2so

I would be willing to be there have been that many deer attacks, or moose attacks, or black bear attacks, or hog attacks. Does that mean we should eradicate them too? Well maybe we should eradicate the hogs.

And I really don't care if an outfitter looses money because of conservation. With out the same sort of conservation efforts they would be making no money (because there would be no elk to hunt). We shouldn't only be concerned with protecting the animals that we go and kill for trophies. And please don't even pretend like any of you only hunt for sustenance, we all go after the big ones.

Don't mean to sound hostile, this is just a subject that really irks me.

As for the woman killed in Alaska the last I heard they were not sure if wolves killed her or a bear and wolves scavenged the body.

I don't think that most want eradication of wolves, but they sure don't want a new problem that they haven't had for a century or more. I know that when local wolf pop's are up, our deer herd gets hammered here in NW MN. We don't want eradication, but we want to be able to control the "problem" as we see fit.

I think you might want to look to sources other than MSNBC for this type of info. They aren't exactly hunter friendly.

As to the teacher in AK (where I live), there was never even a whisper that it might have been a bear here in any credible report (NO report that I ever saw or heard & believe me it was big news & I followed it), especially since it happened about 2 months before the bears even start thinking about coming out of their dens.
I think you need a new news source.

By the way, I am NOT in favor of killing every wolf, just sound managment. I don't think they should have spent so much time & money to bring them back to the Rockies. HUGE waste of recources, & since the ecosystem has changed since their #s were this high in the past,a waste with tragic results.

On the good side, I believe trapping & hunting season on wolves just opened in Idaho! Hope fur prices are up this year!

Sounds like someone looking for a fight --- Troll?

We can all be pretty emphatic about our opinions at times I guess... Well everyone but me

Think yer on to something. New guy, first 2 posts. Maybe a treehugger with "wolf" on the keyword speeddial.

So because I have only been a member for 4 months and this is my first post I am looking for a fight?

Hunters have put in a big effort to build up there conservationist image instead of the ever so popular brutal killers painted by many extremists. Am I a treehugger? Maybe. Am I a hunter? Yes, and I like to protect the image that hunters should have, the conservationist.

These animals were here for a long time before we got here. When humans arrived in north America there was still plenty of opportunity to hunt what ever big game animal you wanted, the wolves did not wipe out the big game populations.

I am not saying we should put our life on the line to saves the wolves, I just don't agree with killing them all. If I ever end up on a hunting trip in Alaska I would love to take one, but that is very different than killing them all.

And I am not accusing any of you of wanting to extinguish them, it's just a theme I have seen played out on the web many times that really bothers me.

I don't think anyone here suggested that we do so.

I don't subscribe to the "the only good wolf is a dead wolf" theory. I don't think most here do, but there has been TERRIBLE managment in the reintro of wolves.
I was talking to a friend today who still lives in my old Montana stomping grounds. Asked if if he got his elk (bow season starts 1st of Sept). He said he hadn't bothered. Scouting the areas we used to see tons of elk in he saw NO elk, very few elk tracks, & LOTS of wolf tracks & scat. Very common thread down there.
And don't forget than man is part of the enviromental equasion. Has been since the Garden of Eden. We DO factor in & are supposed to.

I think some folks guess "troll" because these are your 1st 2 posts. Not saying you are a troll just that it is troll like behavior.

How about an introduction?
I'd love to hear where you are live, what you hunt, what you shoot, etc!

I look at it this way, the wolves and grizzly's were wiped out for a reason in the lower 48. They don't play well with livestock and people not to mention the damage they do to the elk and deer herds. Back before the white man things balanced themselves but now that we have moved in and taken over the habitat there is no place for wolves or grizzly's in the lower 48 and the cats need to be thinned out. Unfortunately people screwed up the natural order of things so either the critters need to go or the people do. I can't imagine anyone that would defend the re establishment of these animals has ever lived in or spent time around livestock ranches. These animals besides being a general threat and nuisance can also destroy a small rancher in a hurry. You start talking about the poor wolves in cattle country and your liable to get lynched.

Claytonfaulkner sounds like a BUNNY HUGGIN Democrat; or just watches too much Disney stuff.

Joe W

Joe, glad you could express your opinion on the subject at hand (wolves) with style, grace, & good science or personal observation. A lot of people just turn to insults & name calling when they really don't have anything of value to say but just have to say something.

I will trap wolves, I will hunt wolves, etc & still think it was a HUGE mistake to go to the expence of reintroducing them, but I don't want them erradicated in any of their natural range. Without mans intervention there would have always been the ellusive few(as it should be in my opinion). I saw one in Oregon when I lived there & was logging 30 yrs ago. They were around but rare & that gave them their Mystique (sp?).

If any animal charges me . its getting something in return.
I may not hit it, but its going to get dirt, powder, flames or cut.
Not going down without a fight.
That buggers big
I would have had to change my shorts before the photo op.

Most definitely!!

When did human life become cheaper than that of an animal? Human aggressive animals should never be tolerated. If they are allowed to live, they are allowed to harm again and likely will. Problem animals should be dealt with in this manner. No one here is suggesting extinguishing the species, but I think the reintroduction of these animals has been ill thought out, and based more on emotion than science as wolves are doing lots of damage. JMHO.