Idaho wolf article from the Challis paper

[2rocky]

http://www.challismessenger.com/story.php?accnum=story-37-20120913

Local hunter kills wolf with bow and arrow

BY TODD ADAMS

Archery hunter Rick Pearce poses with his bow and the large black male wolf he shot last Friday while hunting elk. Photo courtesy of Rick Pearce
When Clayton archery hunter Rick Pearce found himself surrounded by six wolves last Friday, September 7, he was glad he had a couple of wolf tags. The wolf pack was aggressive enough that he wishes he'd been packing a larger pistol for added protection.

Pearce was hunting elk with his bow in the upper Squaw Creek and Bayhorse drainages last week. He'd been bugling and using a cow call for over an hour. About dusk, wolves started howling. Pearce kept calling elk.

Five wolves heard the dinner bell and came to within 70 yards of his position. The alpha female had two pups that started circling, one to the left and one to the right. "I knew they were flanking me and didn't want it to go farther," Pearce told The Challis Messenger.

Then, a sixth wolf Pearce hadn't seen before sneaked in behind him, coming within 40 yards. Pearce could hear the large animal, probably the alpha male of the pack, panting behind him.

"It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up," Pearce said.

 

[spook12]

Good for him! I wonder how long till someone gets taken out by a pack?

 

[idnative1948]

Way to get it done!

 

[Elkmagnet]

Sweet. Now thats a good day of elk hunting.

 

[canvsbk]

A nice job ...getting it done with a bow but sometimes in life a man just needs a shotgun full of buckshot.

 

[smarandr]

Holy smokes. My britches would have been painted brown for sure. I don't know that I would have had the composure for a shot with my bow, but I do know that I would have had my sidearm out and an empty cylinder.