I was going to post a seperate thread about this but i'll just add to this one. I work for a small logging company in SE Ontario. The deer have yarded up like crazy this year where i am cutting. I see them in multiple numbers on a daily basis. This in turn has attracted a small wolf pack to the area. Yesterday morning as I was limbing the trees i fell the night before, when i shut the saw off i could hear them howling (not yipping howling). I walked over the hill in the direction i heard them from AND THEY WERE RIGHT THERE!!!!!! 200 yards at the bottom of the hill i was standing on a pack of 5. black, white, and three blondish greys were all staring up the hill at me. I hollered at them while firing up the saw and revving it to the nutz. They all took off to the SW of me. 15 min. later while limbing ( hadn't started falling trees yet), i looked up and noticed the black one creeping towards me from the west at about 100 yds, once again hollered and it took off. about 10 min after that the skidder finally was up and going and had made it back to me. I frantically told our operator about what had just happened and i knew he was kind of skeptical. as we got the chokers hooked up and he started to pull ahead with the skid, clark ranger f667 by the way very loud, keep this in mind, all i hear is " there goes one there!!!". one of the blondes was running away from me and the skidder at about 50, 60 yrds. had one more encounter after that, the whole pack was howling over the hill again so i fell a great big maple that was about 3 feet in width at the trunk, wich made a lovely CRASH when it hit the ground (took out a few on the way down to). never heard or saw from then again until close to dark then i heard more distant howls.
all I could think of all day was how awsome it would be if i could add "wolf with a chainsaw" to the moose with a wiper blade thread

my theory is that they had a deer killed close by and thought that maybe i was going to try and take it. perhaps this coyote had a puppy dog or kitty stashed away nearby and was defending it. Although the fact that it approached the officer as well means it was obviously not right. I lived in oakville 7 years ago and the coyotes were bad then, especially in bronte near the refinery.
Anyways needless to say i started taking a rifle to work again. I have a PAL, small games, and the gun is
unloaded, encased, and never out of my sight, if i move down a hill i move it and my backpack down with me so i can see it. If this is not legal please let me know so i can sharpen my machete instead. sorry but chainsaws run out of gas at some point, and the fuel is on the skidder, plus it's a long walk in and out.