Chas has a horseshoe up hi but. 08:30 -19 light wind we are sitting in our spots about 50 feet apart along a hydro line. 9:50 we say screw this it's cold, nothing is calling back so we pack up, hike out the 1km and decide to drive to the end of the road checking tracks. As we come back past our parking spot a wolf runs out in front of us across the road. We spin down the road take the next crossover road. We ran on to the hydro line Chas was able to make 2 calls ans 275 yard away the wolf stepped out onto the line bam. 275yrds one shot 3 spins dead........... He is a master.
Blew It On A Wolf - Season 7
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Looking forward to the pics and his story...
Thank you for sharing your adventures, always nice to hear and see the pics
Those horseshoes get cold after a while sitting in the bush...
Well Gunner 410 was working again today so you know how that always goes... was - 19 with a north east breeze dropping the wind chill to - 27. As My72jeep indicated, we called for an hour on our favorite spot and not a peep. so out we go and do a tour to see if anything running the hydro lines where they cross the road. On our way out, we just passed the spot where we had been parked earlier and I see a wolf running up the bank in towards where we had been calling. I looked at the clock and it was 10:22
We wheeled down the next road and stopped at the hydroline. My72Jeep ran up to the top of the ridge looking down towards where we had been sitting. I grabbed some gear, his winter hat, my hand calls and rifle and headed up about 45 seconds later. After giving him his hat, I sat down against a hydro pole and dialed my scope down to 3.5 power as I expected it to run out on the base of the ridge. I dug out the Primos double reed jackrabbit call and gave two calls and I saw the wolf walk out of the trail right where My72jeep and I had been sitting 45 minutes earlier.
Got the gun up, put the cross hairs on the chest and pulled the trigger on the .22-250. I had only loaded one round in the gun. The wolf starts doing "twirlies" and My72jeep yells "did you have an accident" as I am yelling "its down!". We walked down to the spot where I shot and there it is laying right where I hit it, stone dead! The double hydro poles are spaced 150 yards apart, and this was just shy of the second set of poles - so we figure 275 yards. After a couple of high fives, we call his wife to bring their truck as my wife wouldnt like to have a dead wolf in the escape, and driving through Tim Hortons and town with one tied to the roof my be a bit out of form.
Thats the 5'th wolf killed at 10:30 AM.....
When we took a closer look, My72jeep noticed that all but one of the claws and the entire pad of one of the hind paws had been freshly chewed off, we then noticed that it had been caught in a snare based on the marking around the haunch of the animal and where it had pulled hair out there. It was a nice male with a blocky head, but was definitely somewhat emaciated (or thinned out from pulling through the snare ) at the hind or the animal.
I didnt have my cell and My72jeep had a flip phone, and then his wifes phone froze up, so if we get any field pictures, i will post them. Here are the ones my wife took in town.
the hind paw:
Two happy hunters!
DAMN - NOW I AM TAGGED OUT TILL JANUARY 1
Well Gunner 410 was working again today so you know how that always goes... was - 19 with a north east breeze dropping the wind chill to - 27. As My72jeep indicated, we called for an hour on our favorite spot and not a peep. so out we go and do a tour to see if anything running the hydro lines where they cross the road. On our way out, we just passed the spot where we had been parked earlier and I see a wolf running up the bank in towards where we had been calling. I looked at the clock and it was 10:22
We wheeled down the next road and stopped at the hydroline. My72Jeep ran up to the top of the ridge looking down towards where we had been sitting. I grabbed some gear, his winter hat, my hand calls and rifle and headed up about 45 seconds later. After giving him his hat, I sat down against a hydro pole and dialed my scope down to 3.5 power as I expected it to run out on the base of the ridge. I dug out the Primos double reed jackrabbit call and gave two calls and I saw the wolf walk out of the trail right where My72jeep and I had been sitting 45 minutes earlier.
Got the gun up, put the cross hairs on the chest and pulled the trigger on the .22-250. I had only loaded one round in the gun. The wolf starts doing "twirlies" and My72jeep yells "did you have an accident" as I am yelling "its down!". We walked down to the spot where I shot and there it is laying right where I hit it, stone dead! The double hydro poles are spaced 150 yards apart, and this was just shy of the second set of poles - so we figure 275 yards. After a couple of high fives, we call his wife to bring their truck as my wife wouldnt like to have a dead wolf in the escape, and driving through Tim Hortons and town with one tied to the roof my be a bit out of form.
Thats the 5'th wolf killed at 10:30 AM.....
When we took a closer look, My72jeep noticed that all but one of the claws and the entire pad of one of the hind paws had been freshly chewed off, we then noticed that it had been caught in a snare based on the marking around the haunch of the animal and where it had pulled hair out there. It was a nice male with a blocky head, but was definitely somewhat emaciated (or thinned out from pulling through the snare ) at the hind or the animal.
I didnt have my cell and My72jeep had a flip phone, and then his wifes phone froze up, so if we get any field pictures, i will post them. Here are the ones my wife took in town.
the hind paw:
Two happy hunters!
DAMN - NOW I AM TAGGED OUT TILL JANUARY 1
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Sunday was an interesting hunt…
Since my last update, one of my hunting partners, Wayne, shot a coyote at the same spot I got my second wolf. Following day, another coyote came out but he didn’t shoot it as he didn’t want to use both of his 2016 tags on ‘yotes
Saturday was cold and fresh snow overnight. No tracks on the hydro line or roads. Ice was finally safe enough after a week of cold temps and no snow that we went up and put bait at our blind on the beaver flood off the highway. Not a track on the way up.
Sunday Am was -20 C with light wind and 4 of us went out to the hydro line. Gunner410 and Wayne went up on the ridge line and My72jeep and I set up across the road on the hydro line watching the other way. Wayne has an old school caller – it’s a 12 V cassette player and speaker unit – it has the highest volume of any caller I have ever heard and can really reach out there with no distortion…..
We got all settled in and Wayne let fly with some pack howls. All hell breaks loose ….
A pack immediately responds across the hydro line from where I shot the two wolves. They are howling and barking and yipping and growling and whining about 250 yards down the line from where Gunner410 and Wayne were sitting. This goes on for at least 45 seconds. Where My72jeep and I were sitting, one starts howling in the bush in front of us, probably 100 yards away, and another one further to our right but back quite a way in the bush.
Wayne lets go with another howl, and they respond again for about the same length of time, and they are closing the distance to him and Gunned410, but inside the timber line. They are really making noise now and G410 said he started thinking about where his spare mags were in case they got stampeded …
Meanwhile My72jeep and I are listening to this and both of us thought it was Wayne playing his caller!
Then the pack started again – right beside Wayne. I could see the double pole where he was sitting on the ridge and about 30 yards beside him in the mature jack pine, there were 5 or 6 ravens tightly circling over the trees. Now Wayne was getting uncomfortable as they were really growling and barking (interesting enough, in all of the time I have hunted wolves, I had never heard them bark before – just like a dog). They were no more than 40 yards from Wayne, but never came out on the line. Undoubtedly, the ravens were circling the pack.
I tried some howls on my call but no response. Things went quiet and after another hour, we packed up and left. Wayne and My72jeep walked up the road and you could see where the pack crossed the road (timber on both sides) and went into the bush in front of My72jeep and me.
We chatted about this after and this is the second time this has happened in two years (same location as well). When the pack started howling, we probably should have tried a pup in distress call to see if they would come out. I think the wolf pack howl just stirred them up for a fight, but they didn’t know how big the other pack was. We should have walked in the bush to see how close they actually got to Wayne (or maybe not J).
Drove up the highway to check the bait site. Tracks everywhere on the side of the highway (which were not there the night before). Started seeing moose tracks and wolf tracks close to the blind and when we got to the blind location, a moose had walked up our trail from the highway to the beaver flood. Two wolves were following it, on stayed on its track and another flanked it by 20 yards. The moose walked with 8 – 10 yards in front of the blind and back out the timber to the highway. The wolves didn’t touch our bait and followed the moose out.
Even though we didn’t pull a trigger, we had an exciting hunt.
Since my last update, one of my hunting partners, Wayne, shot a coyote at the same spot I got my second wolf. Following day, another coyote came out but he didn’t shoot it as he didn’t want to use both of his 2016 tags on ‘yotes
Saturday was cold and fresh snow overnight. No tracks on the hydro line or roads. Ice was finally safe enough after a week of cold temps and no snow that we went up and put bait at our blind on the beaver flood off the highway. Not a track on the way up.
Sunday Am was -20 C with light wind and 4 of us went out to the hydro line. Gunner410 and Wayne went up on the ridge line and My72jeep and I set up across the road on the hydro line watching the other way. Wayne has an old school caller – it’s a 12 V cassette player and speaker unit – it has the highest volume of any caller I have ever heard and can really reach out there with no distortion…..
We got all settled in and Wayne let fly with some pack howls. All hell breaks loose ….
A pack immediately responds across the hydro line from where I shot the two wolves. They are howling and barking and yipping and growling and whining about 250 yards down the line from where Gunner410 and Wayne were sitting. This goes on for at least 45 seconds. Where My72jeep and I were sitting, one starts howling in the bush in front of us, probably 100 yards away, and another one further to our right but back quite a way in the bush.
Wayne lets go with another howl, and they respond again for about the same length of time, and they are closing the distance to him and Gunned410, but inside the timber line. They are really making noise now and G410 said he started thinking about where his spare mags were in case they got stampeded …
Meanwhile My72jeep and I are listening to this and both of us thought it was Wayne playing his caller!
Then the pack started again – right beside Wayne. I could see the double pole where he was sitting on the ridge and about 30 yards beside him in the mature jack pine, there were 5 or 6 ravens tightly circling over the trees. Now Wayne was getting uncomfortable as they were really growling and barking (interesting enough, in all of the time I have hunted wolves, I had never heard them bark before – just like a dog). They were no more than 40 yards from Wayne, but never came out on the line. Undoubtedly, the ravens were circling the pack.
I tried some howls on my call but no response. Things went quiet and after another hour, we packed up and left. Wayne and My72jeep walked up the road and you could see where the pack crossed the road (timber on both sides) and went into the bush in front of My72jeep and me.
We chatted about this after and this is the second time this has happened in two years (same location as well). When the pack started howling, we probably should have tried a pup in distress call to see if they would come out. I think the wolf pack howl just stirred them up for a fight, but they didn’t know how big the other pack was. We should have walked in the bush to see how close they actually got to Wayne (or maybe not J).
Drove up the highway to check the bait site. Tracks everywhere on the side of the highway (which were not there the night before). Started seeing moose tracks and wolf tracks close to the blind and when we got to the blind location, a moose had walked up our trail from the highway to the beaver flood. Two wolves were following it, on stayed on its track and another flanked it by 20 yards. The moose walked with 8 – 10 yards in front of the blind and back out the timber to the highway. The wolves didn’t touch our bait and followed the moose out.
Even though we didn’t pull a trigger, we had an exciting hunt.
A hit and a miss
Well My72jeep almost got his ear nibbled on this morning and it wasn’t from his wife ……
Gunner410 had to work this AM so you know how this is going to go…
We have had a lot of activity in the area on the hydro line A pack moved in a couple of weeks ago and haven’t left the area. Usually they show up for a couple of days and then disappear for 7 – 9 days before they return. They aren’t doing that this year.
On Friday, G410, Wayne and I went out to the line and there were a pile of fresh tracks, but no response. Saturday, had 5 of us out and I managed to get one howl back at us, but it never showed.
So Wayne, My72J and Marc, the son of one of my coworkers, went out this morning. Wayne's caller had pooched so I set up my caller and headed to the side of the hydro line where I had shot my last wolf. My72J and Marc were sitting against the poles on the other side of the road watching the line on that side, and Wayne and I were up on the ridge.
I was on my knees getting about to get my gear out of my pack when I heard Wayne say “Chas they are coming”. I looked over where he was sitting and he was pointing down the line. I sat down and started glassing the line with my scope but couldn’t see anything. I t was snowing and very mild, almost like a fog hanging in the air. I looked over and Wayne was adjusting his scope. I looked back and couldn’t see anything still. Then there was a gunshot and Wayne waved at me.
I dug out my caller remote out of the pack and started with a pup in distress call. I called for 5 or 6 minutes and then scooted over to where Wayne was sitting. He showed me where the wolf was lying in the snow, about 250 yards away. The reason I couldn’t see it was that it was behind one of the hydro poles on the angle where I was sitting.
Played a couple of howl sequences and there was a gunshot from the other side of the road. We turned around and could see the other guys, Marc was waving an arm. Hit the pup in distress call again and played it on and off for about 10 minutes. After nothing showed, we got up and walked down to tag Waynes wolf and drag it back up the line. By now, the snow had turned to rain (almost unheard of for here in January).
Met up with My72J and asked what happened. He said after he heard the shot and then the pup in distress call, he knew to sit still and keep watching. After a couple of minutes, he caught a movement in the corner of his eye. He turned his head and a wolf was sitting on the edge of the powerline (a measured) 15 yards to his left. He tried to swing the rifle but the wolf bolted into the bush.
My72J got Marcs attention and indicated that he had seen one. Marc was panning the line on an adjacent pole, and after a couple of minutes, noticed a wolf sitting 60 yards down the line in front of My72J. He looked over at My72J, but he couldn’t see it for some long grass. Now I had given them my Primos Sit and Spin decoy and they had it out in front of them. Marc figures the wolf was looking at it, and seeing as My72J want moving, he lifted his .25-06 and got the wolf in the scope. When he cocked the hammer on his rifle, the wolf turned and looked right at him. He pulled the trigger and the wolf dropped from view, and he didn’t bother to reload. He looked at My72J and he was pointing down the line and when Marc looked up the wolf was running into the tree line. They went and followed the tracks in the snow, and it was peeing and dropping “nuggets” as it ran, but they found no blood.
So all in all, the hunt was over in 20 minutes.
Got to love small towns, we pulled into Timmies to grab G410's wife (who was working there) to show her the wolf. When we got into the parking lot, a couple of guys we know asked us if we got anything. We showed them and one wanted pictures with it and the next thing you know they have the tailgate dropped and it dragged out. I took a couple of quick pics and then shut the tailgate (which was visible to the restaurant). We are standing there talking (with three of us still in whites), when this lady comes out of Tims with a couple of coffees and walks right to me. I have no idea who she is. She says – “can I see it”, and I say “See what?”, and she says the “wolf”. I said how did she know and she said all of the staff were at the window looking at it from inside the restaurant. She was nice and had never seen a wolf before so I dropped the tailgate and showed her. Then we went to G410's place of employment and showed him.
Wayne and I weighed it at the house – it was a 70 lb female. He made a nice shot at 250 yards with his Tikka .22-250 with Hornday ammo – it never moved from where it was hit.
So thats three wolves and a coyote so far - and all from the same spot
In this picture, Marc was sitting behind one of the poles on the right, and My72Jeep on the left double pole - you can see how close the bushline / wolf was to him:
Well My72jeep almost got his ear nibbled on this morning and it wasn’t from his wife ……
Gunner410 had to work this AM so you know how this is going to go…
We have had a lot of activity in the area on the hydro line A pack moved in a couple of weeks ago and haven’t left the area. Usually they show up for a couple of days and then disappear for 7 – 9 days before they return. They aren’t doing that this year.
On Friday, G410, Wayne and I went out to the line and there were a pile of fresh tracks, but no response. Saturday, had 5 of us out and I managed to get one howl back at us, but it never showed.
So Wayne, My72J and Marc, the son of one of my coworkers, went out this morning. Wayne's caller had pooched so I set up my caller and headed to the side of the hydro line where I had shot my last wolf. My72J and Marc were sitting against the poles on the other side of the road watching the line on that side, and Wayne and I were up on the ridge.
I was on my knees getting about to get my gear out of my pack when I heard Wayne say “Chas they are coming”. I looked over where he was sitting and he was pointing down the line. I sat down and started glassing the line with my scope but couldn’t see anything. I t was snowing and very mild, almost like a fog hanging in the air. I looked over and Wayne was adjusting his scope. I looked back and couldn’t see anything still. Then there was a gunshot and Wayne waved at me.
I dug out my caller remote out of the pack and started with a pup in distress call. I called for 5 or 6 minutes and then scooted over to where Wayne was sitting. He showed me where the wolf was lying in the snow, about 250 yards away. The reason I couldn’t see it was that it was behind one of the hydro poles on the angle where I was sitting.
Played a couple of howl sequences and there was a gunshot from the other side of the road. We turned around and could see the other guys, Marc was waving an arm. Hit the pup in distress call again and played it on and off for about 10 minutes. After nothing showed, we got up and walked down to tag Waynes wolf and drag it back up the line. By now, the snow had turned to rain (almost unheard of for here in January).
Met up with My72J and asked what happened. He said after he heard the shot and then the pup in distress call, he knew to sit still and keep watching. After a couple of minutes, he caught a movement in the corner of his eye. He turned his head and a wolf was sitting on the edge of the powerline (a measured) 15 yards to his left. He tried to swing the rifle but the wolf bolted into the bush.
My72J got Marcs attention and indicated that he had seen one. Marc was panning the line on an adjacent pole, and after a couple of minutes, noticed a wolf sitting 60 yards down the line in front of My72J. He looked over at My72J, but he couldn’t see it for some long grass. Now I had given them my Primos Sit and Spin decoy and they had it out in front of them. Marc figures the wolf was looking at it, and seeing as My72J want moving, he lifted his .25-06 and got the wolf in the scope. When he cocked the hammer on his rifle, the wolf turned and looked right at him. He pulled the trigger and the wolf dropped from view, and he didn’t bother to reload. He looked at My72J and he was pointing down the line and when Marc looked up the wolf was running into the tree line. They went and followed the tracks in the snow, and it was peeing and dropping “nuggets” as it ran, but they found no blood.
So all in all, the hunt was over in 20 minutes.
Got to love small towns, we pulled into Timmies to grab G410's wife (who was working there) to show her the wolf. When we got into the parking lot, a couple of guys we know asked us if we got anything. We showed them and one wanted pictures with it and the next thing you know they have the tailgate dropped and it dragged out. I took a couple of quick pics and then shut the tailgate (which was visible to the restaurant). We are standing there talking (with three of us still in whites), when this lady comes out of Tims with a couple of coffees and walks right to me. I have no idea who she is. She says – “can I see it”, and I say “See what?”, and she says the “wolf”. I said how did she know and she said all of the staff were at the window looking at it from inside the restaurant. She was nice and had never seen a wolf before so I dropped the tailgate and showed her. Then we went to G410's place of employment and showed him.
Wayne and I weighed it at the house – it was a 70 lb female. He made a nice shot at 250 yards with his Tikka .22-250 with Hornday ammo – it never moved from where it was hit.
So thats three wolves and a coyote so far - and all from the same spot
In this picture, Marc was sitting behind one of the poles on the right, and My72Jeep on the left double pole - you can see how close the bushline / wolf was to him:
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Youre going to have to find more hunting partners before you run out of tags, lol. Here is a thought. Given how much wolves dislike coyotes have you ever thought of putting out a coyote decoy and playing some coyote sounds? I had a coyote on the run here a few weeks ago, it made it to the neighboring property before I could get a shot at it and I do not have permission to hunt that property. So as I am watching it lope off suddenly to my complete shock as this area is not known as wolf country a black wolf stepped out of an oil lease 200 yards away on the the same property(damned!). It sees the coyote which has about 150 yard lead on it and the chase is on. It took off after that coyote right now while I am sitting there both enjoying the show and cursing at myself for not having approached the landowner for permission to hunt their property.
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We have tried coyote howls to see if anything would come out but have not had any responses yet. It is interesting that we had a fair number of fox tracks in the area before the wolves moved in. Since they have moved in, the foxes have disappeared (either eaten or displaced out of fear).
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I have had a fox hanging around the house all winter and a small herd of Mule deer as well. I have taken out a large male coyote, a small male and two decent sized female coyotes within a mile of the house since November and since then all the other animals have returned. First time in two years. I have taken 16 coyotes out of an area 1 mile either direction of the house since moving here two winters ago and the neighbours kids have shot and trapped close to 75. No wonder there wasn't so much as a rabbit track around. Funny the same thing with crows and magpies? I put a smashing on them last spring right here in the yard with the e-caller and owl decoy and for the first time in three springs according to the landlady we had the nesting boxes full of bluebirds and the garden and trees were full of nesting songbirds. It is truly amazing what some predator control can do. Last week I had two separate flocks numbering close to 50 huns in the yard!!
Things have been pretty quiet on the predator front – the pack that was in the area moved out but showed back up mid week. My72Jeep’s wife is now hooked after seeing a nice tawny wolf while putting some bait out on Thursday – it was about 300 yards and she elected to not take a shot with her .243.
I was out of town and unable to go yesterday, and Gunner410 was working this weekend. You now how that goes. My72jeep and his wife went out yesterday and saw nothing. They and I went out this AM and I set up on the ridge on the hydro line and they set up on the line across the road. I had discussed with My72jeep that I was going to try a different calling sequence than normal as we were starting to see lots of marking in the area along with spotting with blood in it, meaning that the females are coming into heat.
We had been set up for about 45 minutes, I started with some raven calls, followed by wolf pup barks and then into a lot of pups in distress calls. I generally don’t use too many pup in distress calls till later in the season as I don’t the local wolves getting use to it.
I had probably been into the pup in distress calls for about 12 or 15 minutes when I saw movement down the line. About 325 yards down the line a grey wolf came out behind a hummock and was heading for the groomed snowmobile trail. It stopped and was broadside, looking up at the ridge where the caller was playing. I had the cross hairs on it and it was a good solid rest with the bipod. I pulled the trigger and watched it drop down, then do a 180 and run at full speed into the tree line.
I waited for 20 minutes and then My72jeep came up and we went down to where the wolf was. We found two tiny specs of blood on the snow and followed the tracks into the bush. Inside the treeline looked like a freeway with a packed trail running parallel to the hydroline (explains how the pack moved so quickly inside the treeline a couple of weeks ago when they almost ran over Wayne….)
We followed the trail but the only blood we found was old and frozen in urine. After a ways, it turned into a maze of frozen high speed trails going in a number of different directions. We searched all around but didn’t come up with anymore blood or sign of the wolf.
So, one lucky and wiser wolf is still out there….
Of course, when I showed up at Gunner41o place of work, he immediately started swearing at me ….
I was out of town and unable to go yesterday, and Gunner410 was working this weekend. You now how that goes. My72jeep and his wife went out yesterday and saw nothing. They and I went out this AM and I set up on the ridge on the hydro line and they set up on the line across the road. I had discussed with My72jeep that I was going to try a different calling sequence than normal as we were starting to see lots of marking in the area along with spotting with blood in it, meaning that the females are coming into heat.
We had been set up for about 45 minutes, I started with some raven calls, followed by wolf pup barks and then into a lot of pups in distress calls. I generally don’t use too many pup in distress calls till later in the season as I don’t the local wolves getting use to it.
I had probably been into the pup in distress calls for about 12 or 15 minutes when I saw movement down the line. About 325 yards down the line a grey wolf came out behind a hummock and was heading for the groomed snowmobile trail. It stopped and was broadside, looking up at the ridge where the caller was playing. I had the cross hairs on it and it was a good solid rest with the bipod. I pulled the trigger and watched it drop down, then do a 180 and run at full speed into the tree line.
I waited for 20 minutes and then My72jeep came up and we went down to where the wolf was. We found two tiny specs of blood on the snow and followed the tracks into the bush. Inside the treeline looked like a freeway with a packed trail running parallel to the hydroline (explains how the pack moved so quickly inside the treeline a couple of weeks ago when they almost ran over Wayne….)
We followed the trail but the only blood we found was old and frozen in urine. After a ways, it turned into a maze of frozen high speed trails going in a number of different directions. We searched all around but didn’t come up with anymore blood or sign of the wolf.
So, one lucky and wiser wolf is still out there….
Of course, when I showed up at Gunner41o place of work, he immediately started swearing at me ….
As Chas has been keeping you up to date on the wolf front, I though I'd add about this weeks exploits. Friday the 11th of march my wife and I set out bait on the power line east of the road where we have been hunting all year. Now I had decided that with the activity we had been seeing on the west side of the road, and the increased number of people in our group I had set up a 2nd bait about 2 weeks ago. now I hadn't seen much on this 2nd bait till Saturday when the cam showed a coyote poking around.
Chas my wife and I hunted Saturday and Sunday with Chas on the east side and my wife and I on the west side but no luck. late on Saturday Chas and I went out and put a moose hide we were given. sunday showed some sighns of activity but my cam batteries had died.
so there went an another weekend. Monday I put fresh bait out as both my wife and I had Tuesday morning off, while there I downloaded the cam pics. when I got home to my surprise there were 22 photos of not one but two wolves.
if you look you can see the 2nd one sitting in the back right.
So 8am Tuesday morning my wife is sitting on the west side Im up on the ridge on the east side. it a fogy morning im using Gunners caller (now on both my wifes and my xmas list) when at 8:25 I hear a shot from my wifes .243. I quickly look behind me to see a wolf bolt north into the tree line. now going through my head is A. did she miss. B. did she shoot one and that was the second one running for cover. C. did she wound it and now we need to go bush wacking to find it. so as I hit the pup in distress call I sit and stew........ after about 15 minutes I walk down to where my wife is sitting with her rifle still pointed down range watching the line all I see is the blood running down her nose. what happned I asked (knowing it was scope bite) "rookie mistake she said, I was so excided when I saw it I wasn't watching where the scope was" At this point she was convinced she missed as it had maid the tree line. so off we go, At 107 yards from where she was sitting the blood trail started and what a trail, for 70 yrds the snow was red ending at the bush line. now just in side the bush about 4 feet was a nice tawny wolf.
85lb.8:25am, .243, 107yrds.
Needless to say my wife is now hooked big time.
Chas my wife and I hunted Saturday and Sunday with Chas on the east side and my wife and I on the west side but no luck. late on Saturday Chas and I went out and put a moose hide we were given. sunday showed some sighns of activity but my cam batteries had died.
so there went an another weekend. Monday I put fresh bait out as both my wife and I had Tuesday morning off, while there I downloaded the cam pics. when I got home to my surprise there were 22 photos of not one but two wolves.
if you look you can see the 2nd one sitting in the back right.So 8am Tuesday morning my wife is sitting on the west side Im up on the ridge on the east side. it a fogy morning im using Gunners caller (now on both my wifes and my xmas list) when at 8:25 I hear a shot from my wifes .243. I quickly look behind me to see a wolf bolt north into the tree line. now going through my head is A. did she miss. B. did she shoot one and that was the second one running for cover. C. did she wound it and now we need to go bush wacking to find it. so as I hit the pup in distress call I sit and stew........ after about 15 minutes I walk down to where my wife is sitting with her rifle still pointed down range watching the line all I see is the blood running down her nose. what happned I asked (knowing it was scope bite) "rookie mistake she said, I was so excided when I saw it I wasn't watching where the scope was" At this point she was convinced she missed as it had maid the tree line. so off we go, At 107 yards from where she was sitting the blood trail started and what a trail, for 70 yrds the snow was red ending at the bush line. now just in side the bush about 4 feet was a nice tawny wolf.
85lb.8:25am, .243, 107yrds.
Needless to say my wife is now hooked big time.
