How to kill a wolf?

Bait...the most effective.

You can usually get them to howl all around you if you howl, but they rarely show themselves.

Cow moose call works for some guys.

They're very smart and patient, and it usually takes all day to get them to show up.
 
I cover myself in pigs blood and lay down in the middle of the field with a rabbit squeeler. No gun just 2 big knives. When they get close enough its like something outta a comic book. I can usually get a couple before they retreat. The trick is to be patient enough for them to get real close. You have to wait till the first one actually mouths you or they are gone too fast.
 
mlehtovaara said:
I cover myself in pigs blood and lay down in the middle of the field with a rabbit squeeler. No gun just 2 big knives. When they get close enough its like something outta a comic book. I can usually get a couple before they retreat. The trick is to be patient enough for them to get real close. You have to wait till the first one actually mouths you or they are gone too fast.
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Classic.

Soon to be somebody's sig line, i am sure.
 
Villain said:
Why would you want to hunt wolves? They are not a good game animal and are very good for ecology.
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In my area there is a No Bag Limit on them right now because there are too many which are wrecking the ecosystem around here.

As for the topic on hand....

In an old trapper book (from about 1898) stated that this trapper would cut a tiny hole in the ice of the lake and stick the handle of his knife in it so it would freeze there. Then he would coat moose blood over the blade and let it freeze. According to him the wolves would come lick the blood off the knife and slice their tongues to ribbons and eventually bleed to death.

Whether this was all BS or not I have no idea. :eek:
 
There's two sides to every issue. Wolves are critical to ecology, for sure, and the sad fact is there are too many elk and deer, acting far differently than their ecologic niche, because of the lack of wolf predation prior to the population rebound. Very good article in the latest National Geographic on how messed up the ecosystem of Yellowstone became with their elimination. Streams widened and shallowed, wiping out fish stock, due to elk and deer grazing the lush stream banks down, which destroys the root systems, and lets banks erode shallowing and widening the channel to a trickle. Wolves hunt streams, due to them being a natural, open corridor down which they can sight prey. With the rebound of wolves, streams regrew and deepened again, fish stocks started rebounding, and new aspens started to sprout, essentially no new aspen growth had occurred in Yellowstone since the elimination of wolves there not a century ago, due to overgrazing by unabated elk populations not afraid to graze in the open.

Truth is, elk and deer herds being in abundance is a human aspiration, it's not the natural way, and it throws a lot of things out of whack. We need apex predators desperately for a healthy environment, that said, I'm all for sustainable hunting of predators. We're trying to micro-manage a self-managing system, self-managing that is, if proper predator numbers are allowed. Those numbers are a lot higher than even many fish and game departments realize, in my opinion. I'm going culling herd animals in Africa next week, due to a sharp decline in predator populations, in large part due to over-hunting and killing of predators, especially lions and leopards, for stock protection. Lions have dropped in numbers to record lows, and if the ungulate herds aren't culled back, the ecosystems can collapse into a far less diverse, unhealthy environment. People don't think of fish stocks in mountain rivers when they think of wolves. Or the multitude of other species perdators allow to flourish, instead of the shortsighted focus on just the big, visible ungulates. Wyoming for instance, just had the Fish & Wildlife branch overruled federally when they were going to allow essentially unregulated wolf hunting (like we have, but they also have far less wolves too). Thank goodness too. People in cattle country, and traditional elk and deer hunting areas experiencing new, heavy predation, get some pretty absurd notions of conservation. Like culling predators heavily...

I shot a hybrid this past winter here that killed a lot of our stock, and attacked our dog too. It was very aggressive, and not wary of people. So I'm not a greenpeacer that's out to lunch, I know the stakes, and what it's like to lose your own stock to predation. It's a frustrating balance we try and run.

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drache said:
As for the topic on hand....

In an old trapper book (from about 1898) stated that this trapper would cut a tiny hole in the ice of the lake and stick the handle of his knife in it so it would freeze there. Then he would coat moose blood over the blade and let it freeze. According to him the wolves would come lick the blood off the knife and slice their tongues to ribbons and eventually bleed to death.

Whether this was all BS or not I have no idea. :eek:
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If it's true, this "method" has nothing to do with hunting and the person practicing it needs his a$$ sliced to ribbons. :mad:
 
Definitely two sides to every story as Ardent explains very well.

People I know who hunt wolves seriously (besides trappers who snare them) use bait and then lie 150 - 300 yards away. One way that I have been told is great is to drill a hole in lake ice (not too far from the shore) and stick a moose leg (or other large peice of bait with a big bone in it) partially in the ice and let it freeze. Making a bit of a mess with blood and some extra gore doesn't hurt either. Breezes on the lake will carry the smell quite a ways and being frozen in place keeps your bait from being dragged off. I haven't tried this myself yet, but I plan to.
 
drache said:
In my area there is a No Bag Limit on them right now because there are too many which are wrecking the ecosystem around here.

As for the topic on hand....

In an old trapper book (from about 1898) stated that this trapper would cut a tiny hole in the ice of the lake and stick the handle of his knife in it so it would freeze there. Then he would coat moose blood over the blade and let it freeze. According to him the wolves would come lick the blood off the knife and slice their tongues to ribbons and eventually bleed to death.

Whether this was all BS or not I have no idea. :eek:
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Sounds like a little BS to me.....wolves are not dumb and I don't think would injury themselves THAT badly for a little COLD blood.
 
the story i heard was it was like an icicle with a knife frozen in the center, the more the wolf licked, the colder the tongue got, and by the time he got through to the knife the wolfs tongue would be so numb he wouldnt feel the knife blade slicing his tongue. and as hes tongue bleeds more the wolf licks more (hes tasting his own blood) and he can't stop himself from licking over and over. thus leading to loss of blood and death.
 
Until the Angels Fall said:
Sounds like a little BS to me.....wolves are not dumb and I don't think would injury themselves THAT badly for a little COLD blood.
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Stranger things have worked in the past for trappers.

Another old and very cruel way to trap/kill mammals, was to take a handy piece of scrap iron and coat it with bacon grease in the cold winter months.

Said wild animals licked the iron, tongues then froze, and were bitten off in a dire effort to ecape. Apparently this worked as well!
 
You say there is no bag limit, if that is true it probably means they are eating livestock. Hunt like you would hunt a bear, bait and wait. A long range flat shooting rifle would also be nice. There is no easy way of hunting wolves.
 
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