Wolf Hunt/Numbers

sealhunter said:
Planning my wolf hunt and wondering how the numbers are in Alberta/Saskatchewan. I saw a post that said numbers are up quite a bit this year, ... any truth to it?
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Any chance you can elaborate on how you would hunt wolf? Sounds like something I would be interested in sometime in the future. Are they usually in packs when you take one? Do you bait them? Does time of day matter? What size rifle are you using?

Thanks In Advance
 
I have only taken wolves with a 30/30 marlin, and was not hunting them speciically at the times.

People do bait them, and a good rifle would be the same as any other larger varmint rifle, I will be using a 22 250.

I have only seen wolves in packs twice, but singles and doubles much more often. I have never seen a wolf in the bush, but always on a river bed or similar. Usually trotting away looking back.
 
Wild wolves in the bush, BC at least, are very, very hard to hunt. They are most often shot by people who are in the bush a lot that just came across them. They usually are in family packs, averaging maybe 6 to 9 wolves. As far as bait is concerned, they likely would come, but it could be any time of the night or day, and maybe ten days or more, between visits.
Notice I said, "Wild wolves in the bush." Wolves that get around human habitation and find something to eat, are a different story. They soon lose their fear of humans and are much easier to see, or shoot.
 
Put your Elk draw in 418 and you will soon find it takes twice as long to get a tag. The biologists have blamed it heavily on the wolves culling the herds. Unless there is a kill or you fluke out catching one in the open I wish you luck in just going out and popping one off. They seem to cover a huge turf as H4831 mentioned. When they circle around again is anyones guess. We have tried to find them out there more than a few times. It has always turned out being a good excuse to have a long walk in some beautiful country.
 
sealhunter said:
I have shot them in the Peace Country north of GP and East of GP

While not hunting I have seen them in Rocky Mountain House, Hinton -Grande Cache,
and in the Parks
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So aside from the park, were you hunting them specific or came across them while after other big game?

*EDIT* Never mind, just reread your previous post.
 
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I live in Saskatchewan, and I have seen lot's of wolves the last couple years, and a lot of people have been seeing more. There has been more snow than usual along the forest line, giving the deer a harder time to feed come midwinter. The wolves have had some easy picking with the deer population being as high as it is. I wouldn't say the wolf numbers are increasing, (I have no idea) but it seems to me that they are coming into the farmland more readily to give chase to the deer. Just my thoughts.... take it for what they might be worth
 
I have shot/seen wolves in the Grande Cache area as well as West of Calgary around Sibbald Flats. Most local ranchers will tell you that there is no shortage of them.
 
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