Wolves surround boys duck hunting.

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Surrounded by Wolves, Duck Hunter Kills One With a 12-Gauge

A 19-year-old duck hunter in Wisconsin shot and killed a wolf last weekend as several other of the wild canines surrounded him and his hunting partners. Chase Melton told local outlet WJFW that he and his friends had set up their blind and decoys at a spot near St. Germain and were waiting for...

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[akmike47]

He could have touched it, 5 yards away. He has a 15’ arm I guess lol

 

[corsairpilot62]

Thats not normal behavior for wolves. Interesting….

 

[nockhunter]

APPLY the 3 "S's"

Shoot
Shovel
Shut up

Mike

 

[akmike47]

Thats not normal behavior for wolves. Interesting….

Wolves don’t run across people in camo or in blinds everyday either

 

[The D]

Wolves don’t run across people in camo or in blinds everyday either

Especially that far north in WI. There ain’t a lot up that way

 

[akmike47]

My guess, they know there’s water and potentially food. Wolves stumble on to camo heads popping out of a blind and are confused as fuck.

 

[Taylorbok]

APPLY the 3 "S's"

Shoot
Shovel
Shut up

Mike

I'm not sure the laws in WI but it doesn't really harm anything for people to know there's some aggressive wolves in the area

 

[232593]

Smoke a pack a day.

 

[232593]

APPLY the 3 "S's"

Shoot
Shovel
Shut up

Mike

^^^THIS^^^

 

[akmike47]

I'm not sure the laws in WI but it doesn't really harm anything for people to know there's some aggressive wolves in the area

Sounds more curious/confused than aggressive until the kid started making a ruckus

 

[Redlion]

Especially that far north in WI. There ain’t a lot up that way

About a 1,000 wolves in Wisconsin. I also bet that they get some bleed off from MN's 2,700 population as well. I was harassed by a group of wolves going out to my tree stand opening morning 2006. Northern MN on Potlach paper Company land. Followed me the last half of my trek. Howling and baying back and forth in front and behind me even once on stand. Happy to get into my perch.

 

[akmike47]

About a 1,000 wolves in Wisconsin. I also bet that they get some bleed off from MN's 2,700 population as well. I was harassed by a group of wolves going out to my tree stand opening morning 2006. Northern MN on Potlach paper Company land. Followed me the last half of my trek. Howling and baying back and forth in front and behind me even once on stand. Happy to get into my perch.

Cougars are what freaks me out, and fucking hogs lol. I got blindsided by a 200lb pig, I got the last laugh with pork steaks.

 

[The D]

About a 1,000 wolves in Wisconsin. I also bet that they get some bleed off from MN's 2,700 population as well. I was harassed by a group of wolves going out to my tree stand opening morning 2006. Northern MN on Potlach paper Company land. Followed me the last half of my trek. Howling and baying back and forth in front and behind me even once on stand. Happy to get into my perch.

I would be equal parts excited/awed and fucking terrified in this situation. Yikes

Cougars are what freaks me out, and fucking hogs lol. I got blindsided by a 200lb pig, I got the last laugh with pork steaks.

Lions too. I don’t like it when our lazy worthless house cats get uppity. Something 10x their size and attitude is fucking horrifying. Especially knowing that the CO front range around Denver has so many lions. And even more especially since ones like this exist. This guy is 6’4” and weighs 250lbs…

 

[akmike47]

I would be equal parts excited/awed and fucking terrified in this situation. Yikes

Lions too. I don’t like it when our lazy worthless house cats get uppity. Something 10x their size and attitude is fucking horrifying. Especially knowing that the CO front range around Denver has so many lions. And even more especially since ones like this exist. This guy is 6’4” and weighs 250lbs…

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My cousin had multiple in his back yard(In an enclosure), fuck those things lol

 

[232593]

My cousin had multiple in his back yard(In an enclosure), fuck those things lol

He shoot them?

 

[LMTMWS]

Thats not normal behavior for wolves. Interesting….

What is normal behavior? I know for certain that "normal" behavior in the past was for people to kill them so they would almost always run, just like every other animal. I also know that when animals are not hunted, like in Estes Park etc the animals don't run and that is "normal." Are these wolves being hunted? If not, this is going to be "normal."

 

[232593]

I would be equal parts excited/awed and fucking terrified in this situation. Yikes

Lions too. I don’t like it when our lazy worthless house cats get uppity. Something 10x their size and attitude is fucking horrifying. Especially knowing that the CO front range around Denver has so many lions. And even more especially since ones like this exist. This guy is 6’4” and weighs 250lbs…

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Nice.

What did you kill it with?

 

[Redlion]

What is normal behavior? I know for certain that "normal" behavior in the past was for people to kill them so they would almost always run, just like every other animal. I also know that when animals are not hunted, like in Estes Park etc the animals don't run and that is "normal." Are these wolves being hunted? If not, this is going to be "normal."

You hit on the problem at least in MN. Wolves are protected and not hunted. To my understanding, they are responsible for the reduction and almost extinction of Moose and Elk in MN. They should be hunted.

 

[KYAggie]

Thats not normal behavior for wolves. Interesting….

Depends on who you talk to I suppose. I was chatting with the owner of Buffalo Bore ammo years ago, like probably 20 years ago, and he and his wife were surrounded the same way by wolves in Idaho. From what I remember he ended up shooting one that came in for the attack and the rest would not leave. I can’t remember if he ended up shooting more of them or not, but I do remember him saying he reported it, it was investigated, he did not get charged with anything, but did get lots of death threats from the peta types; you know the ones who don’t really go outside, but want to save every animal and have the right to kill their unborn children.

It would be interesting to see how many attacks like this have taken place every where the wolves have been reintroduced.

 

[akmike47]

He shoot them?

They were his “guard dogs”

 

[The D]

Nice.

What did you kill it with?

I wish, but that’s not me. That’s Derek Wolfe, he used to play for the Broncos. He retired a few years ago from the league and came back here to live and hunt

 

[corsairpilot62]

Depends on who you talk to I suppose. I was chatting with the owner of Buffalo Bore ammo years ago, like probably 20 years ago, and he and his wife were surrounded the same way by wolves in Idaho. From what I remember he ended up shooting one that came in for the attack and the rest would not leave. I can’t remember if he ended up shooting more of them or not, but I do remember him saying he reported it, it was investigated, he did not get charged with anything, but did get lots of death threats from the peta types; you know the ones who don’t really go outside, but want to save every animal and have the right to kill their unborn children.

It would be interesting to see how many attacks like this have taken place every where the wolves have been reintroduced.

I camped a lot in Alaska/canada area. Summer months. The wolves never bothered me. The howls are unnerving as hell granted. I guess it all depends. Had more trouble with mountain lions in the Sierra Nevadas.

 

[918v]

Thats not normal behavior for wolves. Interesting….

Times are hard. They hungry.

 

[1911hombre]

You hit on the problem at least in MN. Wolves are protected and not hunted. To my understanding, they are responsible for the reduction and almost extinction of Moose and Elk in MN. They should be hunted.

MN DNR has fucked up everything they've touched for 80 years. Fitting, as MN is generally under Blue oppression because everybody that lives in the metro areas are commies. A national embarrassment.

 

[UKDslayer]

Times are hard. They hungry.

Didn't Biden want to put illegal migrants into the national parks?

 

[The D]

You hit on the problem at least in MN. Wolves are protected and not hunted. To my understanding, they are responsible for the reduction and almost extinction of Moose and Elk in MN. They should be hunted.

They should be managed, not just hunted

We’re dealing with this in CO right now. I feel so torn about it too. I love the idea of possibly seeing wolves while we’re out doing something in the mountains. However… I also understand where the farmers/ranchers are coming from. I wouldn’t want to lose any animals to any predators and I damn sure don’t want some pencil-necked gov bureaucrats telling me how or how not to manage my land

 

[Namekagon]

About a 1,000 wolves in Wisconsin. I also bet that they get some bleed off from MN's 2,700 population as well. I was harassed by a group of wolves going out to my tree stand opening morning 2006. Northern MN on Potlach paper Company land. Followed me the last half of my trek. Howling and baying back and forth in front and behind me even once on stand. Happy to get into my perch.

Yeah, I can tell you that number is COMPLETE horseshit. We see them constantly, tracks everywhere. Even in the south-central parts of the state, they are now present. Honestly, it’s probably more like 5,000, but I wouldn’t say 10,000 is an unreasonable estimate. Just look at how fast the hunters blew the quota during the last legal wolf hunt, it was like less than 3 days for 216 wolves. No way hunters eliminated a quarter of the entire population in 3 days, that’s just garbage.

The return of wolves has completely decimated public land deer hunting in northern WI from what it uses to be. The big bucks are gone. Which isn’t surprising because those 3-4+YO bucks tend to inhabit the same remote places that the wolf packs gravitate to. After the rut, those bucks are wore out and become easy prey. By WI DNR’s own admission, a wolf eats 20 deer a year. So a pack of 12 eats 240 deer a year. That’s a huge impact on local chunks of National Forest!!

I never bowhunt without a gun now, way too much risk. Cattle and hunting dogs getting killed constantly. It’s only a matter of time before it’s a kid, seriously. That is absolutely coming. These fucking moron judges in Madison and other liberal cities that protect them are lucky that 19yo had his head screwed on straight, cause there could easily have been blood on their hands with the younger ones in the blind. Trap the wolves and turn them loose in fucking Madison and see what happens then.

 

[Namekagon]

Rant continued…….

Only the government could possibly be dumb enough to try to reintroduce elk into WI, at the same time as wolves. They claim they didn’t reintroduce the wolves but I don’t believe that for a second.

They spent all this money to plant elk in Clam Lake, and over the like 15yr span of the program have seen next to zero population growth due to mortality. The two biggest causes of elk death are wolves and cars. And guess what, the wolves are the reason all the elk are standing on HWY 13 all day. The whole thing is the biggest waste of tax dollars ever.

The DNR KNOWS they’ve committed a giant fuckup. I once saw a pie graph of fawn mortality by predation in a WI DNR annual herd report ( or similiar document, but it was def created by the state). The pie was broken up by predator. Bear, coyote, bobcat, fox, and some others all had their own pie slices, comprising 2/3rds of the pie. The last third was “other predators”. Fucking wolves didn’t have a slice on the graph. The assholes know.

 

[Gemsbok]

This is from September.
As I recall that it turns out the boys spotted the wolf first and tried to call it in.
Boys being boys, I guess ... I'm glad they are OK, but hope also that the whole episode will teach them about FAFO.

 

[mosin46]

MN DNR has fucked up everything they've touched for 80 years. Fitting, as MN is generally under Blue oppression because everybody that lives in the metro areas are commies. A national embarrassment.

FWC (FL) is likewise superb at fucking everything up. they do get a lot of help here from the feds. their corruption is also a factor.

 

[KYAggie]

Trap the wolves and turn them loose in fucking Madison and see what happens then.

This is exactly what needs to happen. They need to trap at least 100 wolves, starve them for two weeks, then turn them loose at 2 am on a Friday night in Madison.

 

[mosin46]

don't know wolves or WI but sounds like a winner

 

[Aftermath]

In northern Idaho, the feds reintroduced wolves and nobody was supposed to be shooting them for quite a few years. They thrived and had litter after litter. The wolves got so they were not too much afraid of human activity. Around Weippe and the Cavendish area, we would see them just off of the road and many times right in the road. No fear, just watch you drive by. Not far from town and I would bet money they were in town at night. They decimated the mule deer population and elk herds.

Once a season was opened up, they figured it out real fast. It's too not hard to find and see wolves but at least they are mostly staying away from the towns.

In Alaska, they pretty much stayed away from the villages. Guys there hunted and trapped them with vigor and gusto. There were always wolves around when the Caribou herds were migrating and pretty easy picking then. I shot a big black one and had it tanned...unfortunately, not very professionally. I no longer have it.

I don't think there are any wolves near where I live now in Oklahoma. That's ok with me. I've seen enough of them. No griz either and that's definitely ok with me. I do have a bunch of coyotes I am just now getting to work on but I think the worst thing I have encountered, the thing that really gives me the heeby jeebies are the fucking scorpions and tarantulas and black widow spiders and the fucking copperheads and the fucking water moccasins (these fuckers are aggressive and will try to get in the boat while you are fishing). I'd rather have the wolf around than these snakes and bugs.

At 0200 about 2 months ago this fucker had a head and my bird dog was going crazy. I got him at too close range in my tightey whiteys and flip flops in the driveway under my old truck. About 54".