PorkNBeans
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Great story, good read. Might want to consider hanging what you harvest somewhere other than your front lawn 
Blew It On A Wolf - Season 4.....
- Thread starter Chas
- Start date
Another interesting hunt this week – went out yesterday with Gunner410 and a coworker of mine. At our first set, I set up the Alpha Dogg caller on a hydro line. A month ago, my wife and I drove out to check out our bait site off the highway, and there was some clothing and a small stuffed toy beaver on the shoulder of the road. I scooped the stuffed beaver and threw it in my pack – so I set it out from the caller in a location that could be seen for a distance. I hit the first series of snow shoe hare screams and a large hawk (at first I thought it was an owl) immediately comes out of the treeline and swooping down the hydro line heading for the call. The three of us were all thinking the same thing – there goes the stuffed beaver when at the last minute, it veered off and sat on a dead tree. It sat there and watched the call and the beaver for a couple of minutes before heading off. We had a good chuckle over this as we were picking up.
Although we didn’t see anything at this set, there has been activity at this site this week with our baitsickle – pictures got grainy due to very cold weather discharging batteries – wolves:
and something new – a fisher (who likes to stand on its hind legs a lot):
We headed to a second set along another set of hydro lines and I set Gunner410 to my left and my co-worker to my right. I placed the Alpha Dogg about 100 yards away and to the left of my co-worker. Started off with some raven calls and then into the different dying rabbit calls. I was set up under a jackpine tree just above the two track and when I looked to my left, a medium sized lynx was walking up the track towards me at a steady pace. It stopped 15 feet in front of me – looked up at me for a few seconds, and then continued on towards the caller. I turned the volume down and the lynx headed right for the caller and stuffed beaver. It walked within 2 feet of the caller and paid no attention to the stuffed beaver. As it would turn away, I would start the caller again, and it would turn back towards it. I must have done this 8 or 9 times thinking my co-worker was getting quite a show – turns out he never looked in that direction, and never saw the lynx.
I was having so much fun with the lynx that I wasn’t watching the two track to my left when I caught a flicker of movement out of my eye. I turned and there was a lynx kit staring at me at about 30 feet away. It was much more nervous than the bigger lynx but then started climbing the bank towards me (probably thought the giant white thing sitting under the tree was the worlds largest snow show hare..). It got in the timber behind me so I was more interested in watching it than the larger one 100 yards away – especially because I didn’t want it jumping on me. I watched it slink within 8 feet of me when I saw the legs and belly of a third lynx going through the trees behind the kit. Finally the kit angled off and I couldn’t see it – that is the closest I have ever had a lynx come into me. I looked back at the caller and that lynx was walking back towards me and disappeared into the timber between me and my co-worker.
When I picked up the caller, I showed him all of the tracks from the lynx and where the kit had climbed the bank towards me. We walked back to Gunner410 and he told us he watched the first lynx walk down the road towards the caller. It stopped in front of him, but never noticed him. Gunner410 lip squeaked and it turned and looked at him for a few seconds, and then continued down towards my location. After watching it walk past me, Gunner410 turned back to his left and there was another lynx sitting there looking at him. After a few minutes, it crossed behind him and he didn’t see it again.
I keep getting asked why I dont have a camera - because I have only two hands! I see Cabelas has the sunglasses with the built in camera on sale so I am going to order one!
We headed back to town where we dropped Gunner410 off as he had to go to work (more on this later). Off to Timmies for a drive through coffee and we headed out to a nearby town where wolves have been running the streets and have attacked at least one dog. Halfway there, a black wolf crosses the highway. We went up to where it crossed and couldnt see it – it is all 40 year old regenerated conifer cutover along the highway and thick. We turned around to find a spot to call and the wolf was back on the highway heading for the other side. We bailed out and found an old cut strip. I had grabbed my lanyard with the mouth calls and found a bit of an opening and started calling. After 10 minutes of calling, a reddish – blond wolf runs across the opening about 20 yards away before I could even lift the rifle up. Called for another 10 minutes but that was all that we saw.
There is one indisputable pattern emerging, every time Gunner410 goes to work, we see wolves
Although we didn’t see anything at this set, there has been activity at this site this week with our baitsickle – pictures got grainy due to very cold weather discharging batteries – wolves:
and something new – a fisher (who likes to stand on its hind legs a lot):
We headed to a second set along another set of hydro lines and I set Gunner410 to my left and my co-worker to my right. I placed the Alpha Dogg about 100 yards away and to the left of my co-worker. Started off with some raven calls and then into the different dying rabbit calls. I was set up under a jackpine tree just above the two track and when I looked to my left, a medium sized lynx was walking up the track towards me at a steady pace. It stopped 15 feet in front of me – looked up at me for a few seconds, and then continued on towards the caller. I turned the volume down and the lynx headed right for the caller and stuffed beaver. It walked within 2 feet of the caller and paid no attention to the stuffed beaver. As it would turn away, I would start the caller again, and it would turn back towards it. I must have done this 8 or 9 times thinking my co-worker was getting quite a show – turns out he never looked in that direction, and never saw the lynx.
I was having so much fun with the lynx that I wasn’t watching the two track to my left when I caught a flicker of movement out of my eye. I turned and there was a lynx kit staring at me at about 30 feet away. It was much more nervous than the bigger lynx but then started climbing the bank towards me (probably thought the giant white thing sitting under the tree was the worlds largest snow show hare..). It got in the timber behind me so I was more interested in watching it than the larger one 100 yards away – especially because I didn’t want it jumping on me. I watched it slink within 8 feet of me when I saw the legs and belly of a third lynx going through the trees behind the kit. Finally the kit angled off and I couldn’t see it – that is the closest I have ever had a lynx come into me. I looked back at the caller and that lynx was walking back towards me and disappeared into the timber between me and my co-worker.
When I picked up the caller, I showed him all of the tracks from the lynx and where the kit had climbed the bank towards me. We walked back to Gunner410 and he told us he watched the first lynx walk down the road towards the caller. It stopped in front of him, but never noticed him. Gunner410 lip squeaked and it turned and looked at him for a few seconds, and then continued down towards my location. After watching it walk past me, Gunner410 turned back to his left and there was another lynx sitting there looking at him. After a few minutes, it crossed behind him and he didn’t see it again.
I keep getting asked why I dont have a camera - because I have only two hands! I see Cabelas has the sunglasses with the built in camera on sale so I am going to order one!
We headed back to town where we dropped Gunner410 off as he had to go to work (more on this later). Off to Timmies for a drive through coffee and we headed out to a nearby town where wolves have been running the streets and have attacked at least one dog. Halfway there, a black wolf crosses the highway. We went up to where it crossed and couldnt see it – it is all 40 year old regenerated conifer cutover along the highway and thick. We turned around to find a spot to call and the wolf was back on the highway heading for the other side. We bailed out and found an old cut strip. I had grabbed my lanyard with the mouth calls and found a bit of an opening and started calling. After 10 minutes of calling, a reddish – blond wolf runs across the opening about 20 yards away before I could even lift the rifle up. Called for another 10 minutes but that was all that we saw.
There is one indisputable pattern emerging, every time Gunner410 goes to work, we see wolves
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