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The wolf population must be gigantic for them to shoot that many on such short notice, in such a short season and with little to no ramp up. It's not like there were seasons in the previous few years and these guys just had to pull their gear out of the attic.
Wolf gear, Like what? Exactly. It's not like you can just dust of the Model 12 and restring the decoys.
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Wisconsin had three previous Wolf hunts - 2012-2013, 2013-2014, and 2014-2015 before the anti's shut things down. Going into the Feb. 2021 hunt the DNR estimated 1,195 wolves in the state which is a little suspect. Most likely you could double that. After five years with no season, the guys with hounds must have been chomping at the bit.
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After all the hunting dogs that have been killed in Wisconsin over the years... it's good to see some pay back....
We have a ways to go yet....
Well... we have come to the point.... where... the parasites are killing the host. It's only a matter of time now.
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Wisconsin had three previous Wolf hunts - 2012-2013, 2013-2014, and 2014-2015 before the anti's shut things down. Going into the Feb. 2021 hunt the DNR estimated 1,195 wolves in the state which is a little suspect. Most likely you could double that. After five years with no season, the guys with hounds must have been chomping at the bit. They just have been practicing on the down low LOL
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Wisconsin had three previous Wolf hunts - 2012-2013, 2013-2014, and 2014-2015 before the anti's shut things down. Going into the Feb. 2021 hunt the DNR estimated 1,195 wolves in the state which is a little suspect. Most likely you could double that. After five years with no season, the guys with hounds must have been chomping at the bit. IIRC, the last time there was a season, the trappers got most of them. Good to see the hound hunters do so well
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There is some Large Beast's in those photo's...
Wow. Think I saw the bad boy in that first pic up the hill behind Ino Bar one night a while back...
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Who was the wolf expert we had BrentD ?
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
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Roundoak,
What else do they use hounds for in Wisconsin?
My concern for the hounds are if the hounds are turned out on a pack of wolves, the wolves split up and the hounds split up too. 3-4 hounds can easily take care of a black bear, I suspect 3-4 hounds on a wolf is fine, but I would hate to see 1 on 1 or 3 on 3.
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Roundoak,
What else do they use hounds for in Wisconsin?
My concern for the hounds are if the hounds are turned out on a pack of wolves, the wolves split up and the hounds split up too. 3-4 hounds can easily take care of a black bear, I suspect 3-4 hounds on a wolf is fine, but I would hate to see 1 on 1 or 3 on 3.
Bear, Bobcat, Coyotes, Coon and a occasional Mountain Lion. My neighbor and others I have talked to with experience with hounds on wolves, say that they seek out a single track.
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Roundoak,
What else do they use hounds for in Wisconsin?
My concern for the hounds are if the hounds are turned out on a pack of wolves, the wolves split up and the hounds split up too. 3-4 hounds can easily take care of a black bear, I suspect 3-4 hounds on a wolf is fine, but I would hate to see 1 on 1 or 3 on 3.
Bear, Bobcat, Coyotes, Coon and a occasional Mountain Lion. My neighbor and others I have talked to with experience with hounds on wolves, say that they seek out a single track. I thought bear hunting was still on the menu in Wisconsin. Good to know they're allowed to run coyotes with hounds. And I was wondering if they would avoid packs. Regardless, if I was going to run hounds after wolves those new flak jackets for hunting dogs they use in Europe to protect their moose dog from wolves could be a good investment.
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It's really quite amazing how quickly folks ramped up for this hunt. 216 in less than 60 hours.  Wow.....
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Sounds like you need a few more weeks of shooting them things.......
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I’ll say some of those are big beasts!
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Good lord ! They are huge ! Way to go ! 👍
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i would think if over 200 wolves are killed in a couple days Wisconsin has a serious wolf population problem ? probably should have killed 500 wolves ? i think someone is not telling the truth on the real wolf population in Wisconsin ? living in Minnesota us hunters know the DNR management team here in Minnesota has lied about the Wolf population for years ,we know the wolf population in Minnesota is out of control too. > nice to see all the pictures of dead wolves, most sure have nice hides too ! good shooting guys ! Pete53
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/kn2gmwE.jpg) [/quote] That is the prettiest one to me. Are those Plott hounds?
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All big wooly basterds. A whitetail deer wouldn't have a prayer if a group of those got ahold of it.
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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!
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