Blew it on a wolf - Season 10!
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elimsprint
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- Kelowna, BC
Great posts and now with fratri diagramming, you Ont. guys rock!!!!!
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So there it was, 30 feet straight down a vertical bank and across the river. This fat boy needing 2 knee replacement s said I ain't going down there. So M72J, QHP and Bob slide down the bank. What you can't see in the picture is M72J is wearing my floater snowmobile pants and coat, my ice picks, my wife's ski poles to test the ice and is tied off with climbing rope and a throw bag rope to Bob and QHP. It took 265 feet of rope to get him across the river. Also the river is wide open approximately 1/4 mile upstream and has 4 hydro dams on it.
Once he returned with the wolf, they threw the throw bag to me and my wife. Wrapped it around me and we were the anchors as they pulled themselves up the bank using the rope. Hauled the wolf up tied into the sleigh.
Quite the adventure. By the time everything was skinned out we were all bushed.
It's unfortunate both wolves had mange. Bob's only had a patch around the a$$, but M72J's had it on the hind, belly and legs. The back, chest and head were salvageable and nicely furred. We had a mange outbreak here 20 years ago that wiped out the fox, we don't like seeing it in the wolves. Will post some trail camera pictures from last year and This year of infected wolves. Interesting enough, haven't seen any manged coyote yet.
Another adventure in the books....
And our first double dog day!
Once he returned with the wolf, they threw the throw bag to me and my wife. Wrapped it around me and we were the anchors as they pulled themselves up the bank using the rope. Hauled the wolf up tied into the sleigh.
Quite the adventure. By the time everything was skinned out we were all bushed.
It's unfortunate both wolves had mange. Bob's only had a patch around the a$$, but M72J's had it on the hind, belly and legs. The back, chest and head were salvageable and nicely furred. We had a mange outbreak here 20 years ago that wiped out the fox, we don't like seeing it in the wolves. Will post some trail camera pictures from last year and This year of infected wolves. Interesting enough, haven't seen any manged coyote yet.
Another adventure in the books....
And our first double dog day!
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Agree 100%
Well today’s follies went like this..... at -23 this am and an 11yearold home sick in bed we decided not to go out in the morning. So we did chores early and went out at 1:00. As we pulled up to the line we saw 6 sets of fresh wolf tracks on the road an about 30 sets of snowmachine tracks that weren’t there yesterday. There was nothing on the west side of the line were I bait so we walked up the ridge to look at chas’s bait. As we crested the hill I went down on one knee so as not to block QHP’s view. All we saw was a raven sitting next to the bait. As I looked around the raven took off and the bait stood up. Turns out a wolf was laying on the bait. I tell my wife, wolf on the bait as she looking elsewhere, where she asks as she was just looking at the bait, I say the bait is the wolf. She sees it takes three shots from a standing posision, but to no avail. Yes she’s off to the range tomorrow for remedial target practice.
Reread this and it sounds like I’m saying my wife can’t shoot, well she can she’s a good shot. But she has missed the last two wolves with a total of 6 rounds. Time to check both her and the scope.
Reread this and it sounds like I’m saying my wife can’t shoot, well she can she’s a good shot. But she has missed the last two wolves with a total of 6 rounds. Time to check both her and the scope.
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Only one and it was verified as it was brought into our office as a road kill by someone I knew and trusted.
Shortest hunt ever..
So Gunner410 was working today (you know where this is going), My72Jeep is tagged out and his wife QHPenny, had taken their daughter out of town shopping and to see a movie. I have a list of things I wanted to get done (including fixing the toilet in my wife's en-suite bathroom) before I have to have my knee surgery next week, but M72J really wanted to go out even if he couldn't hunt.
So we met up this morning and walked down the road to the power line we usually hunt. I had taken a drive out yesterday and there were all kinds of fresh tracks made from the previous days snow.
As we get to the line, we peek around the trees and low and behold, there is a wolf munching on the cowhides that M72J and QHP put out on "their" side. We stoop down, drop the packs and seats, and move down the road to where there was a rut in the bank made by a snowmachine. Now we are both about 6" 4" and the bloody snow banks on the road are so high, we didnt have to bend over very far to remain hidden to the wolf.
I crawled up the snowmobile track, over the bank and popped out the bipod, lay on my stomach and got the scope on the wolf. It was still standing there, 150 yards away broadside, so I looked it over for a few seconds to make sure it didn't have any visible mange. Put the crosshairs on the chest, pulled the trigger, it spun once and landed on its back, with its 4 paws in the air. First wolf I have killed with the .22-250 Ruger rifle. I was using a 55 grain Ballistic Silvertip handload.Total elapsed time, 4 minutes of which 3 minutes were loading up and walking down the road. Then off to Tim's to show hunting partner Wayne who is having a hard time tearing himself away from a warm cup of coffee to go hunting. And of course, Gunner410 at work!
Nice female, weighed between 65 and 70 lbs on the game scale. What is really neat is that she was standing in front of M72J's trail camera as I shot her, and you can see her as she spins from getting hit:
When we picked her up, first thing we noticed was a relatively fresh puncture wound in her hind quarter. Didn't make sense as wasn't close enough to where I shot her to be a bullet fragment, and was about 1 1/2" long - if you look in this trail camera picture you can see the puncture was there before she was shot:
When we skinned her, there was a fair amount of bloodshot tissue on the hind leg and M72J was able to stick a (gloved) finger well into the puncture. As I kept skinning I started finding small birdshot pellets in the chest, neck and head - someone dusted her at some point with a shotgun but they were all healed over and no bruising so I think it was done a while ago. Was a very nice pelt (hoping M72J will post a pick of it)
Got her skinned out, disposed of the carcass, showed a few friends who are in town for the fish derby the pelt, and by the time i got home the day was pretty much over.
Last hurrah for me till next fall.
And yes I got the toilet fixed....
AND M72J has promised QHP that he will go out with her tomorrow AM .....
So Gunner410 was working today (you know where this is going), My72Jeep is tagged out and his wife QHPenny, had taken their daughter out of town shopping and to see a movie. I have a list of things I wanted to get done (including fixing the toilet in my wife's en-suite bathroom) before I have to have my knee surgery next week, but M72J really wanted to go out even if he couldn't hunt.
So we met up this morning and walked down the road to the power line we usually hunt. I had taken a drive out yesterday and there were all kinds of fresh tracks made from the previous days snow.
As we get to the line, we peek around the trees and low and behold, there is a wolf munching on the cowhides that M72J and QHP put out on "their" side. We stoop down, drop the packs and seats, and move down the road to where there was a rut in the bank made by a snowmachine. Now we are both about 6" 4" and the bloody snow banks on the road are so high, we didnt have to bend over very far to remain hidden to the wolf.
I crawled up the snowmobile track, over the bank and popped out the bipod, lay on my stomach and got the scope on the wolf. It was still standing there, 150 yards away broadside, so I looked it over for a few seconds to make sure it didn't have any visible mange. Put the crosshairs on the chest, pulled the trigger, it spun once and landed on its back, with its 4 paws in the air. First wolf I have killed with the .22-250 Ruger rifle. I was using a 55 grain Ballistic Silvertip handload.Total elapsed time, 4 minutes of which 3 minutes were loading up and walking down the road. Then off to Tim's to show hunting partner Wayne who is having a hard time tearing himself away from a warm cup of coffee to go hunting. And of course, Gunner410 at work!
Nice female, weighed between 65 and 70 lbs on the game scale. What is really neat is that she was standing in front of M72J's trail camera as I shot her, and you can see her as she spins from getting hit:
When we picked her up, first thing we noticed was a relatively fresh puncture wound in her hind quarter. Didn't make sense as wasn't close enough to where I shot her to be a bullet fragment, and was about 1 1/2" long - if you look in this trail camera picture you can see the puncture was there before she was shot:
When we skinned her, there was a fair amount of bloodshot tissue on the hind leg and M72J was able to stick a (gloved) finger well into the puncture. As I kept skinning I started finding small birdshot pellets in the chest, neck and head - someone dusted her at some point with a shotgun but they were all healed over and no bruising so I think it was done a while ago. Was a very nice pelt (hoping M72J will post a pick of it)
Got her skinned out, disposed of the carcass, showed a few friends who are in town for the fish derby the pelt, and by the time i got home the day was pretty much over.
Last hurrah for me till next fall.
And yes I got the toilet fixed....
AND M72J has promised QHP that he will go out with her tomorrow AM .....
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elimsprint
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Kelowna, BC
Nice! Score another one and with cool TC pics, congratulations.
TacticalTeacher
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Georgian Bay, ON
Chas:
I just spent the Family Day Weekend with Shane and crew, down here at wife’s family (not mine) cottage in Port McNicholl. He says I should join you guys up there and pop some wolves! Hahahahaha
Great reading your adventures !
Cheers, Barney
I just spent the Family Day Weekend with Shane and crew, down here at wife’s family (not mine) cottage in Port McNicholl. He says I should join you guys up there and pop some wolves! Hahahahaha
Great reading your adventures !
Cheers, Barney
