I'm thinking wolves are about when I hunt rabbits

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Went to my favorite bunny spot this evening even though it's a little early in the fall season. I mostly wanted to know if this spot was still accessible as it has recently been resurveyed by the oil patch workers.
Short version I'm seated on a rock downwind of a trail crossing that has been very productive in past years.
Squirrels are scolding me and I figure my cover is blown. Some distance away I hear a wolf (of a large coyote) barking for a long time (about 20 minutes or so) in very short choppy & deep sounding barking sounds. "Woof woof woof....." is the best I can describe it, silly example yes, but that's how it sounded to me.
For various reasons I'm a bit late getting there to my sitting spot on the rock.
About ten minutes later the scolding squirrels cease all chatter right on cue.
On the trail I'm overlooking I hear a branch snap, not a twig, a branch. Looking up I'm about a second too late and just catch a breif glimpse of a rear bending leg & dark hindquarters of an animal moving downwind of me (circling) between two trees.
I've bumped into wolves here in the past and I purposely leave my hunting spot a bit earlier than usual so I might have legal light to ID it if possible.

Does anyone think this was wolf (wolves)?
The squirrels shutting up seem to point to a predator maybe?
Any ideas??
 
I have the same problem with a large coyote in my rabbit hunting area. They paw prints last winter were huge. All the usual places I went to like burrows, logs and piles the paw prints were there first poking around. They are quite sizeable so it must be a big Coyote, I dont think theres any wolves this far south. Whatever this mutant is its put a big dent in the rabbit population.
 
I like to think of what coyotes do is chatter and the wolves have a long single howl. And believe me there are a few up here in the peace country. You want to come unglued in the dark, cougars baby scream/cry sound will certainly do it for me.
 
If it's the mating season make sure you keep your back to a tree as you wouldn't want to be mistaken for anything other than a hunter.
 
I'm with the no wolf crowd.
Never heard a wolf make any sound that even remotely ressembled what the OP is describing.
 
The pattern of the lynx is right, IE-a short choppy vocalization that goes on for quite a bit of time. But certainly sounded a bit deeper than the lynx.
I think there's too many competing natural predators around here to let any feral dog last very long, but I could be wrong too.
Sounds can be distorted at distance in the forest especially. I'm guessing a bobcat or a lynx maybe right now.

Thanks for you input guys........
 
Brutus said:
The pattern of the lynx is right, IE-a short choppy vocalization that goes on for quite a bit of time. But certainly sounded a bit deeper than the lynx.
I think there's too many competing natural predators around here to let any feral dog last very long, but I could be wrong too.
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You'd be surprised how well a 150+Lb great pyranease or similar could hold its own :)
 
grab a predator call a rifle and a camera. If a legal animal shows up, shoot it, if a non legal animal shows up take pictures.
 
"You'd be surprised how well a 150+Lb great pyranease or similar could hold its own"
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Not against a wolf it couldn't hold it's own.
Wolves can crunch any bone in a moose.
 
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