Wolf Defence... coyotes for the easterners

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So I was looking at possible career change options, and started looking at mines in northern Sask, and came across Kenton Carnegie, and the awful story of his death.
https ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kenton_Joel_Carnegie

That of course led to the 3AM rabbit hole, which led to wiki....
https ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America

I know CGN enjoys old paranoid men worrying about a grizzly that they need a LAW rocket to stop,

but in honesty the multiple predators involved in some of the attacks mentioned seem insane when people have been attacked by packs. It got me thinking about what is best if you think you are in wolf/maybe bear country?
Does anyone know, if you go after the first wolf to come at you is that the Alpha? Will it stop/deter the others?
I have seen some big wolves in the north of BC and AB, but they always seemed eager to get away from you, so never thought about needing to shoot one, or more than one.
anyone here ever actually have anything close to a run in with a pack?

Shotgun with #4 buck? Lever 357/44mag? 30/30 Trapper?
 
Wolves will come back to search out missing pack members (if you shot one) and they will come back quickly if it is wounded and making distress noises still. But if you start shooting they usually will disperse. 45ACP on here has told a story about an aggressive wolf pack.

Wolves can be pretty tough to put down but I wouldn't feel bad carrying a 9mm PCC with a red dot for this sort of thing, as long as the bullets were proper construction.

Getting attacked by a pack of wolves would not be fun. I would rather a grizzly than a determined pack of wolves. Fortunately most of the time wolves are not aggressive towards humans. Most of the time....
 
I carried my Ruger PC9 9mm this winter for wolf defense during a night time extraction of a couple pack members. I made my 6yr old son carry the flashlight
 
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Being investigated by a curious pack of big wolves becomes interesting nerving experience when you are carrying a .50 Hawken.
 
Bears are 100 times less dangerous than falling branches and wolves are 100 times less dangerous than bears.
Do you always have a helmet when you go in the woods?
 
Sir Plus said:
Bears are 100 times less dangerous than falling branches and wolves are 100 times less dangerous than bears.
Do you always have a helmet when you go in the woods?
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Close friend of mine runs a slasher. He has a wilderness carry permit, specifically for wolves.
He sent a picture of wolf tracks over top his footprints when he walked from his bush trailer to his slasher, along with his application. Ontario CFO had no option but to grant his permit.
Where we are, there are timber wolves.
 
Gatehouse said:
Wolves will come back to search out missing pack members (if you shot one) and they will come back quickly if it is wounded and making distress noises still. But if you start shooting they usually will disperse. 45ACP on here has told a story about an aggressive wolf pack.

Wolves can be pretty tough to put down but I wouldn't feel bad carrying a 9mm PCC with a red dot for this sort of thing, as long as the bullets were proper construction.

Getting attacked by a pack of wolves would not be fun. I would rather a grizzly than a determined pack of wolves. Fortunately most of the time wolves are not aggressive towards humans. Most of the time....
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I remember walking out at dusk with my first wolf, with his buddies howling to their missing pack member. Definitely eerie and a little scary. :redface:

Grizz
 
gunrunner100 said:
Close friend of mine runs a slasher. He has a wilderness carry permit, specifically for wolves.
He sent a picture of wolf tracks over top his footprints when he walked from his bush trailer to his slasher, along with his application. Ontario CFO had no option but to grant his permit.
Where we are, there are timber wolves.
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so tracks are all that's needed to get ATC? I can walk out of my house on any given day and find bear tracks, I'd probably have to go 5-10 miles to find wolves
 
Donny Fenn1 said:
so tracks are all that's needed to get ATC? I can walk out of my house on any given day and find bear tracks, I'd probably have to go 5-10 miles to find wolves
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The picture, along with his explanation, was enough to convince the officer doing his interview. Each application is decided on it's own merit.
 
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