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We had a season on them here for a couple of years. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/8fPzNn5.jpg)
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How many breeding pairs left? At an average of 4-6 pups a litter, in another month or so, your wolf pop will have again doubled, negating that miserable harvest. Nice healthy looking BIG wolves there. Pelts look good from here.
Any problems with lice, like we have in SC Alaska?
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What las said x10. Only an anti would think they hurt the population. I would vote to leave it open year around and revisit it in 20 years and they will still have a lot of wolves then. It was a different world when we eliminated them years ago and would be hard to do again.
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Some cool pics, you wolfy cheeseheads! Hopefully, I get to hunt some wolf some day!
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How many breeding pairs left? At an average of 4-6 pups a litter, in another month or so, your wolf pop will have again doubled, negating that miserable harvest. Nice healthy looking BIG wolves there. Pelts look good from here.
Any problems with lice, like we have in SC Alaska? Have not heard about lice among the wolves taken, but in the three seasons that started in November, there were comments about wood and deer ticks.
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How many breeding pairs left? At an average of 4-6 pups a litter, in another month or so, your wolf pop will have again doubled, negating that miserable harvest. Nice healthy looking BIG wolves there. Pelts look good from here.
Any problems with lice, like we have in SC Alaska? yep, its a shame cant keep open year round, allow trapping too.
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It's pretty clear the WI DNR has been outright lying about the wolf population for years. A fair chunk of wolf territory deer hunters will SSS a wolf on sight, and I always assumed the DNR thought lying about the population might discourage poaching a little. The number harvested in a couple days pretty much proves the point, but I'm guessing DNR will stick to their "estimates."
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It is funny (and sad) that the local news articles I read at the close of the hunt just parroted the same spiel that WI hunters killed way too many over their quota and were responsible for killing almost 1/4 of our population. That would be so impressive if in all of THREE days 1/4 of our population of wolves were killed.... pretty obvious there are a hell of a lot more than 1000 ish wolves in this state. During the last hunt a friend of a friend and his buddy set 17 sets on a 700 acre tract of private property trying to fill two tags. On the first trap night they caught NINE. Had to release 7! It's all in how they were "released"....... 
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Who was the wolf expert we had BrentD ? He's the resident wolf expert at HuntTalk.
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It's really quite amazing how quickly folks ramped up for this hunt. 216 in less than 60 hours.  There were rumors that there was a wolf behind every tree  Number could have doubled or tripled had the season run its full course. But we're told that wolf numbers aren't that high by the WI DNR (Do Nothing Right or Damn Near Ridiculous). In the long run, while 216 wolves were harvested, that's actually pretty close to the full quota. We knew from the git-go that the 80 some quota that the Indians were awarded (part of the total 216) would go untouched.
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Just out of curiosity, what do you guy consider a good wolf rifle?
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If Montana had a standing army, a 270 Win with Federal Blue Box 130's would be the standard issue.
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Just out of curiosity, what do you guy consider a good wolf rifle?
Okie John a good deer rifle usually makes a good wolf rifle. I like the 6mm stuff.......22-250 type rifles will work especially with larger or harder bullets.
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Just out of curiosity, what do you guy consider a good wolf rifle?
Okie John a good deer rifle usually makes a good wolf rifle. I like the 6mm stuff.......22-250 type rifles will work especially with larger or harder bullets. Thanks. Okie John
If Montana had a standing army, a 270 Win with Federal Blue Box 130's would be the standard issue.
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What was the quota?
Any wrights on those woofs?
IIRC, 25% can be removed from the population annually, and the population will remain stable.
So like las said, nice work, but long term, a drop in the bucket.
The news stories lamenting the “overharvest” simply have no idea of biology.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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As LAS said, this wolf harvest will have little if any impact on wolf populations.
ADFG figures that 40% of wolves die every year and most wolf deaths are caused by other wolves.
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You guys are off to a good start, many more to go.
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Just out of curiosity, what do you guy consider a good wolf rifle?
Okie John not in wisconsin, but here anything you have in your hand is a good wolf rifle. know of several woofs done in with a rossi pump 22wmr.
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