Blew it on a wolf - Season 10!

Chas

Chas

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Its hard to believe that this is the 10'th year I have been posting about our wolf hunting experiences along the north shore of Lake Superior, and how it usually works out in the wolves favour. I just found out my date for knee replacement surgery (March) so hope to get most of the season in. AND I am putting a personal grudge on the large black wolf with the white chest patch that hangs around the beaver flood blind that we have not been able to kill since 2014 - it is still alive and has outfoxed us every year!

In addition to My72Jeep and his wife (who is hooked more than he is on predator hunting)(Damn it Murray - get her a user name on the site so I dont have to refer to her as "wife" this year), we have 5 or 6 hunters that regularly get together to chase predators once the moose and deer seasons close. Well, here we go again for another season......

We will also be doing a limited predator control hunt in the community with the municipality having passed another extension to the no discharge bylaw allowing a small group of us to hunt in 2 locations. My wife heard of a dog killed in a driveway on our street last week by a wolf and My72Jeep had one try to get on the school bus he was driving last week as well (no joke). So tomorrow AM we are taking the JR Carbines out to the snow dump at the end of my street to see if we can call it out.

Thanks for all of the positive comments we have received over the years - attached are the links that I could find for previous seasons (If anyone can find earlier ones please PM me and I will update the thread).

Season 5:
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1014161-Blew-It-On-A-Wolf-Season-5?p=9526543#post9526543

Season 6:
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1178227-Blew-it-on-a-wolf-Season-6

Season 7:
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...-On-A-Wolf-Season-7?highlight=blew+it+on+wolf

Season 8:
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...-On-A-Wolf-Season-8?highlight=blew+it+on+wolf

Season 9:
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...-on-a-wolf-Season-9?highlight=blew+it+on+wolf
 
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Not much to report no fur on the ground. Crazy weather alternating from above freezing to -28C. Got my .22-250 rifle tuned in with a new load and 55 train Nosler Ballistic Silvertip bullets. On Thursday went out to the hydro line with Wayne as temperatures plummeted while we hunted. Talked with a township employee on our way out and 1/2 hour after we left he saw 2 large wolves standing on the road where we had our truck parked.

Tried hunting the snow dump following morning with Gunner410 and his wife. Cold, crisp -28 C and one response to coyote call and then the township started plowing and dumping snow so we were done.

Saturday morning was -4C and Wayne, My72Jeep and his wife and me headed in to the hydro line. Pack of 5 coyote had tracks in the fresh snow in the road and 2 large wolf tracks walking up the road to the hydro line. Unfortunately we had very high southwest winds which were good for where Wayne and I sat, but very bad for M72J. Saw nothing and on our drive out was a coyote standing in the middle of the road.

Heading out again tomorrow morning. We will connect one of these days!
 
My cousin was in town for some vehicle servicing and had expressed an interest in wolf hunting so took him out this afternoon to the powerline where I had dumped a deer carcass to check trail cameras. Other than birds yesterday when I checked, there was no sign of canine activity.

When we went out today, there were tracks of wolves and coyotes all over the place and large piles of - well you know what - all over. The carcass other than the hide was gone. We walked up to the hydro pole where the trail camera is situated and I was pointing out the large deposit on the road to my cousin when I looked up and there was a wolf 30 yards away running 90 degrees from me down a logging road they put in last year.

There are a number of large hummocks on the line where they pushed the road in and I could only see it as it ran between the hummocks and couldn't get a shot. I "woofed"at it but it didn't stop and I couldn't get a shot. Turns out it was bedded down behind the hummock and didn't move until we were 30 yards from it and started talking, probably because the wind was blowing from it to us and didn't hear us.

Went back with Wayne for last hour of daylight but no response - attached is some pictures of a coyote at the carcass and the wolves that were there last night. I have multiple shots of the lone wolf with only its right eye reflecting - I am wondering if it lost its left eye.

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Thanks Chas, always enjoy your posts. Our season is just starting and we need some snow for tracking. Unfortunately, it was 6C here today, so no chasing coyotes tomorrow.
 
Out again to the hydro line with Wayne, another hunter and his 13 year old daughter. I set up where M74J's wife usually sits across the road from the ridge where I normally hunt so that the three of them could be on the ridgeline.

I played a couple of wolf howls on the FoxPro (thank you Youtube and Audacity free sound editing software!) and a wolf started howling in the treeline south of where I was sitting (sounded like it was only in there 60 or so yards). Then another started calling. We exchanged howls for a while but they never showed on the line. This has happened to us before at this location - its like a "form up on me" howling sequence and then they head for the rock ridgeline southeast of us).

Anyways, when she came down from the ridge 45 minutes later she was pretty excited - Wayne said her eyes were like saucers when the wolves started howling. Perfect day, mild, little wind and a great excuse to miss a couple of hours of Grade 8. I bet she wont forget that morning with her dad for a long time.
 
Fur down - finally!

Wayne, My72Jeep and I went out this morning - gorgeous -5C sunny and no wind. Unfortunately the loggers who cut the area last year and havent been present since last March started slashing and loading logs adjacent to where we were on the hydro line. It didnt bother the animals last year and about 800 we heard wolves howling from the rock ridge area where we heard them yesterday. After no response to the calls and 1 1/2 hours we went down to check the bait and trail camera.

What we found was the wolves had dragged the deer hide (broke the wire) across the treeline and munched on it in the cutover. I found two frozen beds where they had laid down and dragged the hide back to the bait and used it to cover the bait bucket.

We downloaded the camera onto M72J's card reader. First thing we found was that there was a wolf on the bait yesterday at just after 10 AM. We had left the ridge about 40 minutes before as M72J and I had to go and bring a sick school bus from White River to Wawa. Its too bad that it didnt show up while the hunter and his daughter were there. M72J said when he looked at the images on a larger screen, that it is missing big patches of fur so we may have another mange wolf. Also pictures of a wolf on the bait yesterday evening and night.

My wife and I drove up the highway to the beaver flood so I could put out more bait. No action there other than a couple of fat ravens. On our way back, I stopped at another spot I wanted to check out where the moose yard up near the highway. Lots of moose tracks and wolf tracks everywhere. Unfortunately I found where a local trapper had but out a bunch of beaver baits as he will be hunting after January 1 when he can get tags from the new licence system.

My wife and I took advantage of the above freezing weather to go and cut some firewood at the end of the hydro line where M72J hunts. He came out and walked in on a new logging road that crossed the hydro line. He found a barnyard as he went in and came up on the bank of the Michipicoten River.

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After two loads of wood I had an hour of light left so I dried off and changed into dry clothes and headed back out. I was supposed to meet Wayne but he wasnt at Tims and not where we park the trucks. I was sweeping the bark out of the bed of the truck when I heard wolves howling like crazy where M72J had walked into earlier that afternoon. I called him on his cell and told him to get his ass out here and set up where I had been cutting wood and I would set up on the other end of the hydro line. He lives close by and was in position by the time I set the Foxpro out and got set up. I tried some howls with my Rocky Mountain howler but no response. I heard a vehicle and saw Wayne in his truck and waved him over.

He parked out of site and hustled over and sat next to me. I said the wolves were howling like crazy and he replied " I know I shot one 20 minutes ago and the rest of them started howling". He got to the hydro line about 20 minutes before I got there and sat down. After a few seconds he realized a wolf was standing near the bait. It was a tawny colour and blended in perfectly with the grass. It started to walk out towards the centre of the line and he shot it with his .22-250 at about 170 yards. He heard the bullet hit and the wolf went about 2 feet straight up in the air. When it came down it started running but only went a few feet before it piled up in a heap. He had driven his truck over the ridge to retrieve it as I drove in!

We didnt get any more wolf howls and about 15 minutes before legal hunting was done a pack of coyotes started yipping and howling behind where M72J was sitting. I texted him and told him to watch his ass before a coyote sunk his teeth in it. Interesting enough, although we have shot coyotes at this location, we have never had them howl here. M72J walked across the main road and looked down the hydro line - you can see almost a kilometer across a large valley and he saw 4 coyotes moving on the far bank.

Got back to the truck and took a few pictures before we hung the wolf in Murrays pole barn. Forgot to see if this is the one eyed wolf! Tomorrow is a skinning day - after we hunt in the morning (we are all down to 1 tag left).

Sorry for the long post but it was quite a day!

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Edit - had 2 normal looking eyes, weighed 60 lbs on the scale
 
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If you can shoot it douse In gas and put it on pile of wood and burn it then the o hers won't catch what ever it has
 
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