Was I being hunted?

Have to agree that you were being considered being asked home as (sorry-for) lunch!!!

Thats definately one from the been there -done that file as well . I was hunting deer in the Huntsville area in the winter just after snowfall . I was wandering into the bush and settled into a blind . There was noise all around me for a while and then got quiet . I don't know what was worse. On the walk out there was again noise off to the sides of me , I began to see images of myself with an apple in my mouth !!! Fortunately I was a bit late comming out and my buddy who dropped me off met me half wa in the trail with his rifle . When I asked what the gun was for he walked me back a few yards and showed me where there were my tracks in the snow from my walk in and right on top of them were alarge wolf prints that looked as if it was right behind me all the way off . A bit of scouting off to each side of my walk in were bunches of prints paralleling my walk. Coupling the prints with the fact that I was late meeting him he was a bit concerned and came in to me with the rifle to make sure I was alright and not going to find a lower place in the food chain . Not alot of fun , shoot 'em all
 
I at least shoot AT every wolf I see. :mrgreen:

Just doing my part for the ungulates, I'm not scared of wolf attacks. But I think buckshot would be very effective in a wolf charge... :mrgreen:
 
Gatehouse said:
I at least shoot AT every wolf I see. :mrgreen:

Just doing my part for the ungulates, I'm not scared of wolf attacks. But I think buckshot would be very effective in a wolf charge... :mrgreen:
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now will that be alternating buckshot and slugs :lol: or just straight buckshot :lol:

its just so confusing slugs no slugs, 00 or 000 buckshot

I just guess I need more shotguns :lol:
 
NOOOooo, not buckshot Gatehouse, how could you do that to this thread!!! :lol:

I chuckled about the slug vs buckshot threads while loading a shell of #4 in my shottie when looking for the bobcat on my property last week. Then I filled the tube with slugs which I felt redeemed me a little bit. Of course I came pretty close to a mom with two small cubs in the same spot about 10 days before, so that might have been part of the reason for the slugs. ;)
 
Foxer said:
According to this weeks Dryden Observer we have(had ) a 1000 pound black bear in this area .
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Seriously? Seems unlikley. That'd be a pretty good sized griz, never mind black bear.
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That black bear must have been on the same diet as the Eastern Coyotes (80 pounders, if I recall correctly...)! What's going on Eastern brother's? Too much nuclear leakage??

Troutseeker
 
I understand if they wanted to kill me it would all be over. I understand that if they knew I were human, they'd probably pass. They didnt know I was human until I let them know. If they had of discovered for themselves, I could lose an ass cheek. That would spoil my hunt. :mrgreen:
 
boonerbuck said:
I understand if they wanted to kill me it would all be over. I understand that if they knew I were human, they'd probably pass. They didnt know I was human until I let them know. If they had of discovered for themselves, I could lose an ass cheek. That would spoil my hunt. :mrgreen:
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And their appetite I'm sure! :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
cariboo_kid said:
boonerbuck said:
I understand if they wanted to kill me it would all be over. I understand that if they knew I were human, they'd probably pass. They didnt know I was human until I let them know. If they had of discovered for themselves, I could lose an ass cheek. That would spoil my hunt. :mrgreen:
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And their appetite I'm sure! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Bad day for everyone! :lol: :lol:
 
True, wolves have attacked humans on occasion, but it very rare, and it sounds like these guys were just checking you over. They knew you were a human for sure. Had they wanted you, you wouldn't be here now.......which says, well, they weren't interested.

Not surprisingly, you, I and everyone else, have a greater chance of dying from an MVA each and every time you climb into your vehicle and drive than from an attack from any animal. Statistics don't lie. We just don't contemplate the odds of crashing and injury before we drive. Have you never had "a near miss" while driving? Hummm.

One critter I am extemely vigilant of while in the bush is a nest of angry hornets, particularly the ones that nest in the ground. During Sept. scouting excursions, I've stirred them up on more than one occasion, and trust me, it doesn't take much to agitate them. Just walking unsuspectingly with-in 10 feet of the nest will do it. If you are at all sensitive to wasp venom, which can occur over a period of years, just one sting can result in anaphylaxis and it could game over in short order. Now, imagine 50 or more stings? Even without a sensitvity, you may or may not survive. When I stumble into a nest, I beetle outa' there and fast!

You got to see a wolf pack at close range.....cool! Many people will go a lifetime in the bush and never experience that.
 
Old Voito is about 90 now and in a nursing home and spent his whole life trapping and never had a job where he answered to anyone . He once told me a story of when he was on snowshoes pulling a sled across the northern tip of Dog Lake long before there were any roads in the area .

Out on the ice a pack of wolves walked parrallel to him about 2 hundred yards out . 12 or 13 wolves . This went on for half an hour when Voito decided to try something . Voito would walk a few steps , fall down , moan , groan and wail and then get up dragging a leg and do it all over again .

The wolves started running a circle around him and with everytime he'd go into his injured preformance the circle would get smaller . When the pack was about 75 yards out Voito went down and thrashed around like he couldn't get back up all the time wailing in imaginary pain .

Half the wolves broke from the running circle and came straight at him . About 30 yards out Voito came to his knees with the Enfield firing full metal jackets and in ten shots he killed 4 and hit one other . The wounded one escaped with the rest of the pack .

Voito set this up but it makes one wonder , what would happen if you really were injured under similar circumstances ? I've had wolves run circles around me in the bush just to check me out and presented no danger but had i been injured and wailing in pain ......
 
BigUglyMan , Voito is very cool . The Brits airdropped guns and ammo and Voito would watch the forest from a high position looking for Russian campsites . Him and a few friends would ski in after dark , each one of them with a couple of Stenguns , lay waste to the Russians and then ski out . He moved here right after the war , took up trapping and that's how he spent his life . With 13 to 1 odds the wolves thought they had him on a frozen lake in the middle of nowhere but what the wolves didn't realize is that Voito had played this game before .
 
BIGREDD said:
There is a common misconception that wolves do not attack people... It happened in Ontario to a grouse hunter in the 80's... He defended himself with bird shot.. he ran out of shells if I remember the story correctly... It was reported in Ontario Out of Doors Magazine I think.
I have some advice for you ... shoot every wolf you see :idea:
Here is a link to some very interesting facts...
http://www.natureswolves.com/human/aws_wolfattacks.htm
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Thanks for the link, that makes for some very interesting reading :wink:

BT
 
boonerbuck said:
ATR, you pose an excellent question. :shock:

Spokerider,

They knew you were a human for sure.
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Why are you so sure of that? I disagree completely.
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Your odour, upright stance, binocular features [ read preadator ], cadence and kinetics combined with their previous experience with man, thier intellegence, thier instinct, all computed [with wind in favor ] in a few miliseconds.
 
My feeling is that they were checking you out, trying to decide 1-what you where 2-if you could be taken down... Only 3 arrows to defend yourself with? What if you'd already used one on moose? :shock: I'll stick to my rifle and extra mag thank you :)
 
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