whyelkhunt
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Thanks for the answer on scents,they really are tying your hands. Perhaps you need to use the estrus whine.
130 is back open!!
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Get a trapping licensing and take her out "bobcat" hunting... tie her up near a bushy tree that you cant see in very well and get her barking... if anyone comes, she treed a cat but you cant see it in the tree (big fir/spruce/cedar...)
Had to shoot the wolf that was coming in to kill my dog at the tree.
Had to shoot the wolf that was coming in to kill my dog at the tree.
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By the way Dra... I talked to a game warden (as I'm sure you have) and he is not writing tickets if someone is using a game cam during seasons... as long as they are not using it to scout. I only use mine to get pictures of wild animals... and I get better and more pictures when I'm not sitting there distributing scent and making noise... plus I dont see well in the dark, and the game cams do.
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You tried a wolf howler yet?
I got one made by Bugling Bull game calls. I haven't tried on the wolves, but it sure makes my bird dogs go crazy
I got one made by Bugling Bull game calls. I haven't tried on the wolves, but it sure makes my bird dogs go crazy
You tried a wolf howler yet?
I got one made by Bugling Bull game calls. I haven't tried on the wolves, but it sure makes my bird dogs go crazy
I got the same one as a Christmas gift.
It sounds more like a really loud one of these than a wolf.
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drahthaar
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I was a hundred yards from some guys blowing one of those, sounded like a trumpet to me. I sat there quietly, they didn't know I was there. No wolves answered.
I laughed out loud on that one.... it gave me a visual of Randy sitting in a blind filming an episode of OYOA with cockapoo as bait
I am getting desperate here. Don't be surprised if Lilly shows up in the episode. I have done stranger things while seeking my quarry, but none that carries this level of marital risk.
drahthaar
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If you're gonna do it, I'm gonna do it.
Back in Oct I tried calling in some wolves I could hear howling on a ridge about 1500 yards away from me. I started off howling back and although they traded howls with me for a few minutes they never moved closer.
About an hour later after I had moved about a 1/4 mile up the ridge I was on they started howling again from close to the same spot,. This time I started barking like crazy. They stopped howling almost as soon as I started. I wasnt sure if that was a good thing or not but just in case I moved to a spot I would be able to see a little better in the direction they would likely come from and started barking again.
About 15 minutes later I heard something moving through the woods about 50 yards to my left. I waited a while but after not hearing or seeing anything else I decided to head over and see what it was. It turned out three wolves had run right past me and after following their tracks 1/2 a mile it seems they just kept on running. Not sure if they winded me or not but I am pretty sure they came my way to investigate the barking.
I was just using my voice to bark which is kind of rough on my throught but apparently it sounds pretty good (I have called in two groups of hunters since then and both said they were convinced I was a wolf or a lost dog). The packs I have been hunting have been shot at and I am sure they have heard quite a few people howling at them.
I have been trying to stay away from howling and focusing more on deer distress calls and barking. I haven't called any in since that first time so I cant really say my strategy works. I have also spent a few very long days on fresh tracks and never had any indication I was anywhere close to the wolves making them. Educated wolves have to be one of the hardest things to hunt, not that anything is easy to hunt in the thick steep country around here. I am headed to the missoula area in a couple of days to give it a try, at least there are a few places around there I might get a chance to see one further than 50 yards away.
About an hour later after I had moved about a 1/4 mile up the ridge I was on they started howling again from close to the same spot,. This time I started barking like crazy. They stopped howling almost as soon as I started. I wasnt sure if that was a good thing or not but just in case I moved to a spot I would be able to see a little better in the direction they would likely come from and started barking again.
About 15 minutes later I heard something moving through the woods about 50 yards to my left. I waited a while but after not hearing or seeing anything else I decided to head over and see what it was. It turned out three wolves had run right past me and after following their tracks 1/2 a mile it seems they just kept on running. Not sure if they winded me or not but I am pretty sure they came my way to investigate the barking.
I was just using my voice to bark which is kind of rough on my throught but apparently it sounds pretty good (I have called in two groups of hunters since then and both said they were convinced I was a wolf or a lost dog). The packs I have been hunting have been shot at and I am sure they have heard quite a few people howling at them.
I have been trying to stay away from howling and focusing more on deer distress calls and barking. I haven't called any in since that first time so I cant really say my strategy works. I have also spent a few very long days on fresh tracks and never had any indication I was anywhere close to the wolves making them. Educated wolves have to be one of the hardest things to hunt, not that anything is easy to hunt in the thick steep country around here. I am headed to the missoula area in a couple of days to give it a try, at least there are a few places around there I might get a chance to see one further than 50 yards away.
drahthaar
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oops try again
Randy49er
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You guys are having wayy too much fun with this post. Good stuff!
MT has the best managed preditor populations (probably) in the lower 48. Way to much restrictions on preditors and not enough on ungulants period!
OK i think some of the best wolf hunting is to come in the open units. I am out lion hunting every weekend and am always looking a tracks and stuff. In late january i start seeing the females starting to drip blood, when they start doing this they are really close to there dens. Tracks in the snow should lead you right into there lap! Most hounds are killed by wolves this time of year...near there dens. I think wolves are very aggresive near there dens. Just my two cents.
OK i think some of the best wolf hunting is to come in the open units. I am out lion hunting every weekend and am always looking a tracks and stuff. In late january i start seeing the females starting to drip blood, when they start doing this they are really close to there dens. Tracks in the snow should lead you right into there lap! Most hounds are killed by wolves this time of year...near there dens. I think wolves are very aggresive near there dens. Just my two cents.
drahthaar
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About ready to throw my hands in the air on this wolf deal. I was as close to a wolf as one could probably be and not get one. Basically resorted to cutting some tracks in fresh snow, and "dogging" it until something good happened. It wasn't in a hurry just cruising through a regen unit, stopping and digging at places where bunnies were messing around. There was snow falling, but not snow in the tracks when it hit the dark timber. I knew I was CLOSE. Tried bunny squealing to no avail.
See I had just walked up an old road in the creek bottom, where the tracks headed for. He left the little trail I had been following him on and headed down xcountry. I could see him basically sliding down the hill himself, judging by the skids he was leaving. I knew I was close but wanted to see if he would cross my tracks in the creek bottom. I couldn't follow him down that way, I had to go around on the atv trail.(hard to explain, but much of the ground at that elevation and aspect is nothing but a sheet of ice from the snow-melt-freeze we have had). I went as fast as I could down the trail to the atv path I walked up earlier, 5 minute walk up my tracks from the morning, and right there, I could here the SOB struggling to get back up the hill, scratching and clawing its way back up the the sheet of ice that I had to walk around. He hit my tracks from the morning just as I was getting to that point as well, must have heard me coming and scrambled back across the creek and headed up the other side. It was only 35 yards away and I couldn't see it!!!! Too thick. I could not get through the brush fast enough to get to the opening of the creek where I might have a shot. That bastid scrambled back up that hill. No way for me to follow, you would literally need crampons. I turned around and legged it back down the road and up the other trail he left in the first place. I just flat ran out of gas. Realistically, I knew that wolf wouldn't let me anywhere near him again anyway.
Called my buddy and he was kind enough to pick me up a long way from my rig, and give me a ride back down.
These wolves have my frustrations reaching an all-time high.
See I had just walked up an old road in the creek bottom, where the tracks headed for. He left the little trail I had been following him on and headed down xcountry. I could see him basically sliding down the hill himself, judging by the skids he was leaving. I knew I was close but wanted to see if he would cross my tracks in the creek bottom. I couldn't follow him down that way, I had to go around on the atv trail.(hard to explain, but much of the ground at that elevation and aspect is nothing but a sheet of ice from the snow-melt-freeze we have had). I went as fast as I could down the trail to the atv path I walked up earlier, 5 minute walk up my tracks from the morning, and right there, I could here the SOB struggling to get back up the hill, scratching and clawing its way back up the the sheet of ice that I had to walk around. He hit my tracks from the morning just as I was getting to that point as well, must have heard me coming and scrambled back across the creek and headed up the other side. It was only 35 yards away and I couldn't see it!!!! Too thick. I could not get through the brush fast enough to get to the opening of the creek where I might have a shot. That bastid scrambled back up that hill. No way for me to follow, you would literally need crampons. I turned around and legged it back down the road and up the other trail he left in the first place. I just flat ran out of gas. Realistically, I knew that wolf wouldn't let me anywhere near him again anyway.
Called my buddy and he was kind enough to pick me up a long way from my rig, and give me a ride back down.
These wolves have my frustrations reaching an all-time high.
Man, that is close.
I haven't been busting tail as hard as I probably should, but I've been out every weekend. It is frustrating stuff. They're just such a hard animal to predict and pattern in this country.
It'll all come together at some point, stick with it.
I haven't been busting tail as hard as I probably should, but I've been out every weekend. It is frustrating stuff. They're just such a hard animal to predict and pattern in this country.
It'll all come together at some point, stick with it.
thecrittergitter
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Keep at it fellas, it is the most frustrating of all animals i've tried to hunt. You just need to catch a lucky break, and the only way to catch that break is to keep going.
Anyone want to borrow my lucky green howlerLOL
Anyone want to borrow my lucky green howler
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