Wolves at J Clark Sawyer

[Mr. Pike]

I'm sure they've moved on by now, right?

Hunters, locals address grey wolf sightings in J. Clark Salyer Wildlife Refuge https://share.google/u5dDdpwtpZkANAgnF

 

[Davy Crockett]

No reason for them to leave that I can think of.

 

[tikkalover]

When it’s time for them to go they will load them up in the trailer that they delivered them and whisk them away.

 

[bucksnbears]

I think I know wolves Purdy well.
As long as there is a prey base there, they will stay.
They are very smart animals but if it's a family group and they grow in numbers, they will need to expand thier range eventually.
Young males being first.
Don't be surprised if in the near future there will be some " big coyotes" shot near minot,velva, bow bells ect.

 

[riverview]

there have been wolves passing through the northern red river valley for over 30 years.

 

[Zogman]

there have been wolves passing through the northern red river valley for over 30 years.

I saw a lone one near Concrete 2 years ago. Looked significantly larger than a coyote.

Saw a pack of 7 single file on a game trail at the NW Angle. 4 pups. 2 mature and 1 very big one.

About 10 or more years ago visited with an old timer for about an hour. He used to trap them for the turkey producers around Greenbush, Roseau and Warroad. Very interesting. He had it down to a science.

Bottom line I don't know diddly squat about Wolves but I am very interested in them.
The hide in my avatar came with the cabin. I did shoot the deer.

 

[Twitch]

Their howls are unmistakable….if you talk to people and they say it sounded like a coyote then it wasn’t a wolf. My first archery elk trip we were out later than we wanted to be one evening trying to get on a bull. On our trek back to camp in the pitch dark a pack cracked off a set of howls that made the hair on my neck stand up on end. Never saw an elk the next day or heard a bugle. Every other day we were in elk thick and had opportunities

 

[1lessdog]

My youngest Son and I hunted the Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge up by Thief River Falls we would hear Wolves every night. Once you hear one, you will never mistake them for Coyotes. We seen lots of tracks buy no animals.

 

[PrairieGhost]

I see. a wolf two years ago while muzzeloader hunting. I was dumb enough to call the Game and Fish. The lady biologist was so condescending I wasn't about to tell her I had been a biologist for 36+ years and I know a wolf when I see one. A coyotes back doesn't reach to the next to top wire on a fence. This year I seen that same wolf and it's moved three miles away and has a friend. They have been hanging in a relatives pasture and even his yard all summer. I don't need to be talked to like Im five years old so I think Ill skip calling the Game and Fish.
I didnt have a deer license this year, but my grandsons other grandfather has terminal cancer and wanted to deer hunt once with his grandson, so the four of us who with no license took him hunting. I had very recently purchased a Seekins HST on 6.5 PRC and worked up some new loads with.Berger 140 VLDs for coyote. When we were done with deer I wanted to check it's accuracy beyond 300 yards. I glasses a nice round rock that my reticle estimated at 10 inches at 820 yards. When the bullet hit the rock that wolf got up out of a brush patch a couple hundred yards to the left and beyond. I suppose if the Game and Fish woukd have been watching they woukd have thought I was trying to shoot that wolf. It explains the lack of coyotes we seen this year, but it's home so I like to hunt there. I guess I'll have to be careful when night hunting.

 

[SDMF]

3 of us hunted Caribou on the N Slope of AK in 2011. We'd been hunting several days an hadn't seen a predator bigger than a big fluffy Red Fox that hung around camp. About midnight one night the unmistakable howl of wolves woke me up.

The following morning was very foggy and while watching the coffee perk, sure enough, there's a wolf just sitting on the bank of the river. I carefully took a couple steps to nab my rifle, Binos, and sticks out of the tent. I can't get a range, the fog is too thick. That fact should've been a giant, glaring, stop thinking so hard, he CAN'T be that far moment, but it wasn't.

The wolf was sitting down just looking and smelling. It was on a small point that stuck out into the river and I was 100% certain it was the same point I had ranged a day before @ 300yds, there was too much fog for the LRF, it ranged "everything" @ 65ish yds. Someone not quite so "excited" about killing that wolf (season was open and I had 2 tags) would've taken a second to "think" about the upcoming "300yd shot". You couldn't see 300yds in any direction. Alas, I leveled the horizontal cross-hair on top of the head, between the ears, and sent a bullet over the wolf's head. 14yrs later, that one still stings, a lot.

I'd seen wolves in the wild before that. I've seen them since. But that day on the foggy river is the only time I've put one in the rifle scope as it's the only time it was legal to do so.

Maybe someday........

 

[Davy Crockett]

Been a few years now since I've heard one but we've had them in the hills for many years. If you "think" you saw a wolf you probably didn't see one because they are so much bigger in real life, like the size of a deer with lots of fur. I watched 3 of them right across from my driveway at about 200 yards with binos and spotting scope , a big male was facing away and looking over his back at me. The head and neck on that thing looked just like a big black bear.