Ripp
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http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-an...4593ad121c.html
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ALL MEN DIE, BUT FEW MEN TRULY LIVE..
Edited by Ripp (15/12/16 08:57 AM)
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gryphon
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bad dog eh
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DoubleD
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Looks like a good wolf to me.
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DarylS
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Excellent - have heard close to 200 of them have been eradicated in Northern BC- Yahoooo - it's about time the Government just did what's necessary, instead of broadcasting it and then not doing what's necessary because some assholes got their panties & whatever the Dykes wear, in a knot.
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"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V
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Rule303
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Well that is a fair dinkum Lobo. Not a smaller variety I often hear of. Umm correction that should read "....was a..." not "..is a..." 
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DarylS
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The small wolves, the resident and natural wolves of the Northern States, same sort, it seems to the "Brush" Wolves of Ontario, Canada, have about been pretty much erased, made extinct, by these big buggers they imported from BC and planted in Wyoming.
Their population has exploded over the past 12 or so years and thus have spread to Minnesota in the East, to Washington, Oregon and 2 or 4 spotted in Northern California in the West.
The numbered 70 when first released. They now number well over 2,000.
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Daryl
"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V
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Ripp
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The small wolves, the resident and natural wolves of the Northern States, same sort, it seems to the "Brush" Wolves of Ontario, Canada, have about been pretty much erased, made extinct, by these big buggers they imported from BC and planted in Wyoming.
Their population has exploded over the past 12 or so years and thus have spread to Minnesota in the East, to Washington, Oregon and 2 or 4 spotted in Northern California in the West.
The numbered 70 when first released. They now number well over 2,000.
YEAH, NO SHIT...when this all started the greenies wanted 30 breeding pairs..well we have far far exceeded that number a LONG time ago...
I certainly plan to lower the numbers a bit before the winter is over...shall see...
Need to re-sight my rifle for those running shots..seems I am constantly hitting them too far back and never able to retrieve them ...
 
Ripp
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Shackleton
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Quote:
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The small wolves, the resident and natural wolves of the Northern States, same sort, it seems to the "Brush" Wolves of Ontario, Canada, have about been pretty much erased, made extinct, by these big buggers they imported from BC and planted in Wyoming.
Their population has exploded over the past 12 or so years and thus have spread to Minnesota in the East, to Washington, Oregon and 2 or 4 spotted in Northern California in the West.
The numbered 70 when first released. They now number well over 2,000.
YEAH, NO SHIT...when this all started the greenies wanted 30 breeding pairs..well we have far far exceeded that number a LONG time ago...
I certainly plan to lower the numbers a bit before the winter is over...shall see...
Need to re-sight my rifle for those running shots..seems I am constantly hitting them too far back and never able to retrieve them ...
Ripp
Good luck-and post pics if you get one. Love seeing successful big predator hunts.
I keep hoping I find myself stumbling onto a mountain lion that doesn't know they don't live this far north. Several shot every year in IA, and each one is a bit farther north than the last, but IA still "doesn't have a population of mountain lions". If I find one that didn't get that memo I'll have a large taxidermy bill, an annoyed wife, and some new meat to try(I hear mountain lion is delicious).
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mbogo3
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The Yellowstone pack has increased to 5 separate groups, having a party killing easy to catch livestock and fleeing back into the park to avoid getting shot.The fact it took near 200 years to get rid of them in the first place seems stunned to re-introduce them with the same predictable results.Who could have known.Similar to the Crusades and Europe's immigration policy..your future is your past if you didn't learn anything the first time around....Harold
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DarylS
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"Need to re-sight my rifle for those running shots..seems I am constantly hitting them too far back and never able to retrieve them ..."
Happens a lot, Ripp - don't let it bother you. Berger bullets should be good for wolves, either the match/match-type or the hunting/match-type.
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DarylS
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The Yellowstone pack has increased to 5 separate groups, having a party killing easy to catch livestock and fleeing back into the park to avoid getting shot.The fact it took near 200 years to get rid of them in the first place seems stunned to re-introduce them with the same predictable results.Who could have known.Similar to the Crusades and Europe's immigration policy..your future is your past if you didn't learn anything the first time around....Harold
Those who do not learn from History, are doomed to repeat it.
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Daryl
"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V
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mbogo3
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The Alberta MNR did a covert wolf plant here in Alberta on a large military base Suffield .Of course they didn't want to tell the area ranchers , the wolves tore their cattle apart as opposed to chasing the abundant elk that were harder to catch.Angry locals cured the problem with lead and only one black lobo male is still at large.My son seen him a couple years back on an elk cull 1/4 mile out and running hard.Harold
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Homer
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Wow, they certainly are Big Pups!
Doh!
Homer
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DarylS
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They are the Ace Predator on ungulates. These re-planted BC wolves have killed a minimum of 20,000 ADULT elk in Wyoming in the last 15 years - considering calf numbers and adolescents as well, could easily be 50,000 elk altogether - likely more.
That is the result of a 24,000 herd in 2000, being reduced to less than 4,000today. Considering through the years of # drop, from 3,000 to about 15,000 minimum #'s of calves surviving birth per year - well, my numbers are way too low. You do the math.
That is with only a few packs still in the Park and surrounding areas. The rest have spread from Michigan, Oregon to Washington and now 2 pairs were reportedly seen in Northern California.
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