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Well dang...Jack London!

I thought you was dead!

Did something bite you Neal?

Yep. Barn cat that was thought to have rabies. I was 10.

Hey, that will buff right out.

I don't know what the intentions were of the pack that surrounded and shadowed my dog and me a few years ago,just yards away in thick cover, but I got a nice wall hanging pelt out of it. And no rabies shots required.

That is a lucky gun I was carrying too. Took down two nice bull caribou for my wife and I this week. Even as a single shot. I gotta get that extractor fixed - might meet some more woofs!

the animals are beginning to fight back.

i've read about that before now.

surely, they aren't scared.

i believe it's territoriality?

Those crazy Canucks , remote camps in wolf and black bear country unarmed , they don't have handguns . I have seen plenty wolves and bears while fishing and wouldn't stay out there overnight without a firearm .

I’m betting it was rabid. Or maybe just wolves being wolves.

But I feel sorry for Canadian’s that CAN’t carry a gun in the outdoors.
That’s just wrong. And one more reason I’ll never visit the beautiful woods of Canada.

the beast might have been in crazed, starvation mode.

the campers in bear & wolf country should have been armed.

no sense in camping in a place where the resident animals are deadly.

Yes sir , It's usually a single wolf that is rabid or kicked out of the pack ,

My mistake, I had forgotten about that. They emphasize that the use of a firearm in the Park is still illegal, however. Ultimately, a person does not need a law to defend his life or his family. This is why, in either country, one may want to be armed with something.
I don't know where people get the idea that we can't carry a gun in the woods in Canada. Of course we can; just not in national parks. One may, of course use some other means of defense. As far as handguns are concerned, permits are possible, though not all that easy, to get. My take has always been, if an area is all that remote, nobody will ever know what you are or are not carrying. If it's not all that remote, you may want to think it over.
Like many rural Canadian residents, I live in an area where we have all large North American predators. I have hunted, fished, camped, and worked, alone, in remote areas for a good portion of my life. If I am really concerned, I'll have a rifle and, when I'm camping alone, I like to have a dog with me as an ealy warning system. In general, it's just not something that weighs heavily on my mind. I have to say, I feel a lot more confident camping anywhere in the Rockies than I do swimming off the North Carolina coast! GD

Well done.....

I hunt wolves quite a bit and have yet to get in range of one. Even placing a smoked porkchop in my wife's pack has not worked, perhaps I should go to Canaduh.



mike r

Woofs got to eat too.

Nope, he just likes nasty shots....here's your sign.

6 pages and I'll be the first to say way to go Russ! A good man did what he could to save the day. I've seen Canadian wolves thanks to the invasive ones in Idaho and think it would take a big set to run in and kick an angry one in the butt.

Bb

Hahaha, thanks, Kel.

I was trying to get a story out of him and ask if the critter died of food poison or lead poison.

But, the gubment said day’s gonna keep us safe so’s we don’t need no guns.

I think Matt deserves an "atta-boy you badass!", too.

OK here's the deal up here. You can carry a rifle or shot gun anywhere you want in the woods. Except national parks. Provincial parks, no problem in fact you can hunt in most of them. Our National Parks though think they've struck some Shangrala with their umpteen dozen stupid rules including no firearms. I don't go to National Parks I despise them. But I'm glad they're there that's where all the people go.

Someone said back there us Canucks like shorty shot guns for camp. There's a lot of truth to that I bet if you did an inventory of what people choose to carry for wildlife protection around here at least it would mostly be a Defender, short 870 etc. Mosberg J.I.C. and the like loaded with slugs. Personally I just use whatever rifle(s) I'm hunting with at the time, sometimes have an old Marlin lever of anything from 30-30 to 45-70 laying around as just a camp gun. Sometimes, often in the summer I don't pack anything when I camp but if that wolf hit my tent he'd have an axe in him pretty quick.


BTW working, recreating, camping in the woods for 40 plus years now here's the list of wildlife problems I've had in camp. Zero. It can happen but you have a better chance getting killed on the highways by far.