Wolf down!

220Swifty said:
If you don't hunt, stay out of the hunting forum, and stop stinking up my thread.

You must fit right in at that national park. Do the granola crumbs in your saquatch beard ever end up falling out and jamming your keyboard?
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LOL nice. :D

Actually i am not really a fan of park laws. I have to drive 200kms to shoot but mind you it is cool to see elk walking on the sidewalks and bears walking by every night with in yards of you without care.

Like i said i don't mind shooting them if they are attacking livestock, In fact this Friday i am going coyote hunting near a farm that has been having troubles, the old guy is even paying me :D

I'll bugger off now :nest:
 
A-zone said:
So, have you considered what you'll do if a timber wolf shows up instead of a coyote?
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I will not lie, i would shoot it. I am no stranger to shooting problem animals around the farms. I'd rather see what my 7mm would do to a coyote though, lol
 
Just to make sure.

1. I was told that i do not need a hunting license to hunt coyote in Alberta as long as i am allowed to hunt on the land.
2. do you need to wear orange in Alberta?
 
1. Yes, covered under "other species" control of livestock predation. As an Alberta resident, you do not need a licence on private lands with the landowner's permission.
2. No you don't. Unless you are in Camp Wainwright hunting deer under thier rules.

Here you go:

http://www.albertaregulations.ca/huntingregs/

Then go to General Big Game regulations tab, then Attention Bear & Wolf Hunters, scroll down to the section on Coyotes.
 
johntrace said:
The way i see it is if my fridge has food in it then i don't need to hunt, this way the moose, deer or what have you do not need to die needlessly and then neither do the wolves.

If someone needs to hunt to sustain themselves then power to ya.

If wolves or yotes kill your livestock and therefore effect your livelihood then by all means take the furry buggers down.

I am only trained to shoot people and paper so until i need to hunt to live that is all i plan to shoot.

my 2 cents. :)
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And many hunters don't see the need for civilians to own handguns and "assault" weapons like the AR platform.
United we stand, divided we fall.
 
johntrace said:
Just to make sure.

1. I was told that i do not need a hunting license to hunt coyote in Alberta as long as i am allowed to hunt on the land.
2. do you need to wear orange in Alberta?
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Now in BC you don't need a species license at all for Wolves from what I understand whether they are on private land or not for resident hunters.
 
Jeepguy said:
didnt realize there were wolves in the valley old hound but there sure are lots of coyotes
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For sure. There are lots of wolves in Alqonquin. They are protected. They follow the deer so are lots of them in the townships around the Park, where they are protected as well. Where there is wolves, there will be deer. Problem is maintaining the deer population. If the snow is deep some deer yards literally get wiped out. Most of farmers problems come from the coyote.
 
drache said:
Personally the way I look at it, if there is a NO BAG LIMIT on wolves in your area, there must be a reason for it, shoot them.

Black Bears though don't tip the scales of wildlife like a Wolf does so I see no reason in wanting to just up and shoot every one you come across.
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That is BS.

There is an area in Saskatchewan called the Cumberland Delta. There was an article in Western Sportsman years ago, about a study Sask F&W did on the moose in that area. They found 65% of calf moose mortality was due to adult male black bears, that hunt calf moose in the spring.
They trail up the pregnant cows and take the calves almost as soon as they are born.

Sask boys feel free to respond...



Watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDEW-nIg844
 
old hound said:
For sure. There are lots of wolves in Alqonquin. They are protected. They follow the deer so are lots of them in the townships around the Park, where they are protected as well. Where there is wolves, there will be deer. Problem is maintaining the deer population. If the snow is deep some deer yards literally get wiped out. Most of farmers problems come from the coyote.
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Ontario 'did it' to itself by ceasing the provincial wolf bounty program, in the winter of 1988.
I know this fact because, the clerk for the township office of Petawawa, had to cut me a cheque.
 
Demonical said:
That is BS.

There is an area in Saskatchewan called the Cumberland Delta. There was an article in Western Sportsman years ago, about a study Sask F&W did on the moose in that area. They found 65% of calf moose mortality was due to adult male black bears, that hunt calf moose in the spring.
They trail up the pregnant cows and take the calves almost as soon as they are born.

Sask boys feel free to respond...



Watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDEW-nIg844
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Are grizzlies and cougar on your list as well ????

Watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tolJbFKJcQ0
 
^ I am sure grizzlies take their share of calves, but those bears we cannot kill.

FWIW, black bears are in many ways worse than wolves, because their populations are not cyclical like the wolf, and they are omnivores that do not depend on moose to survive.
Due to the huge moose die-off in our huting area, there is a chance some of the wolves are gonna die of starvation... but not the black bears.
 
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.220 Swifty, nice wolf and a great shot.

Thanks for sharing your adventure with us! :)

(big fan of the Swift as well, and can I assume you are too?? ;))
 
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