Hunting Forum

Posted By Certified Angus on 12 Apr 2013 10:39 PM
A couple of years ago I grouse hunted with a couple of guys that claimed to have seen a wolf as they were walking down the trail. No shots needed to be fired then, but clean undergarments were needed.

-CA,

Good to here from you again. 

The above guys must have been very startled.  In my close encounters I was to busy yelling to have anything come out of the other end.

-MD

Mark, those above two guys were myself and CA's Father Tony. That wolf popped out so fast, and so close that Tony and I were both instinctively pulling up our shotguns... But the wolf was faster, and was gone before we got the guns to our shoulders... It happened pretty dang fast... Tony and I were left just starring at each other shaking our heads in disbelief at what had just happened I've seen many wolfs over the years, but can't recall ever having a closer encounter than Tony and I had that day, the exception possibly being the night I chased them away from my dogs, but it's a tough call to say which encounter was closer.

LD, can you learn to shoot from hip????

Tom, at that point in time I wasn't legal to shoot a wolf even if I were watching them attack my dogs. Pulling up the shotguns was more of an instinctive reflex than an intent to kill. Tho certainly not a lack of desire to kill, at least not on my part.

Did I hear Judge thru out suit and everything is full go?

Posted By TOM IN TENNESSEE on 30 May 2013 01:16 PM
Did I hear Judge thru out suit and everything is full go?

Tom,

I see you got your answer in the Miscellaneous Forum.  Now if someone would finance commercials of wolves savagely attacking Fifi and Fluffy for the Twin Cities market, they might understand that wolves are not big puppies.

-MD

Mark, I wish it was just the TC market. Sadly it's the metro's all across the nation.