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I was speaking to an outfitter yesterday and he referenced a change in the game laws. Apparently a non-resident can purchase a wolf tag for hunting in Saskatchewan this year. The only caveat is that you can no longer use it after you’ve used your deer tag. That seems like a strange way to set up the regulations and create demand for the wolf tag. I suspect the chances of shooting a wolf while targeting deer are pretty slim to begin with but I don’t think I will be compelled to spend the extra $300 for a wolf tag knowing it becomes void if I use my deer tag. I’m curious to think what our friends to the North think of it?

Canada has a lot of great people , although VERY FEW are allowed into Gov't positions.

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Good morning to you sir, well it's still just that here in BC, but it'll be afternoon Texas and Saskatchewan time, regardless I hope you're having a decent week.

With the preface to all my thoughts being that we left Saskatchewan nearly 40 years ago, haven't hunted there since and don't have family there that hunts much if at all.

Does the outfitter or outfitters believe you could kill a wolf if you bought a tag?

How they think your odds are of taking one would be my biggest reason to buy a tag or not, unless it's some crazy high price.

The reason I ask that is that we're allowed 3 wolves annually here in our management region, with no tags required, that is to say they go along with our general hunting license and the season is quite generous.

Despite that, I can count on one hand the number of people I've heard about shooting one. Now people do see them and some try to shoot them, but that's not a given.

We've tried to call them on a couple occasions where we hit steaming fresh tracks - was snowing so they were indeed fresh - but whatever I was selling they weren't buying.

Now for sure my lack of wolf calling prowess is likely the key ingredient here, but again in the circles of hunters I circulate amongst, there's not a whole bunch who've managed to kill one. If I'm not wrong, I'm not sure anyone has called one in either, they're just animals of opportunity which is more or less why they're set up for hunting that way here.

If you can swing the cost of the tag and the outfitter believes you have more than a snowball's chance of shooting one, they make a pretty cool trophy.

We've seen some very big specimens rugged up that came out of the northern edge of the farming section of Saskatchewan and because it's cold, they had beautiful pelts.

Regardless of your choice, I hope you have a grand hunt wherever you end up going.

Dwayne

I'd read that a month or two ago and I believe the price I'd read is $200.

I always liked the way Manitoba did it (it's been a few years since I've been back so have no idea if it's changed) - as long as you had an open deer, bear or moose tag, wolves were fair game (no additional cost or license).

It's also been 5-6 years since I hunted SK, but I don't believe non-res aliens could take a wolf at any point – but I could very well be mistaken. If that's the case, at least now there's an option. If not, it would seem it's merely an incremental sales boost for the ministry.

I believe he said the tag itself was $200 with and additional $100 resource tax or something of that sort - bringing the total to $300.

Wolf sightings had reportedly been down in the area I’m hunting. I was told they had seen mange in a good % of the wolves spotted in the fall and trapping #’s were very low over the winter. Will get updates prior to my hunt in mid-November and decide at that time on whether to get a tag.

Sounds like a good place to be deer hunting.

The tax makes perfect sense - everyone needs a cut.

Save your 300 bucks, Wolf sightings are rare and usually by opportunity, concentrate on a nice Buck and enjoy yourself, post your hunt back here so we can have a look.

Going off memory here...

In Alaska, one can use any BG NR tag for another species of equal or lesser value. I don't remember if one can then get another same original tag, but I think so. You do have to buy it again.

Wolf sightings anywhere are pretty rare, even if the wolves are not. The last one I saw crossed the road on a drive to Anchorage 6 or 7 years ago. The one before that was a few years farther back. It crapped on my lawn after I got the Lab in. The one before that has her pelt on my wall.

There’s plenty of wolves in northwest Ontario. No shortage of them. My neighbour shot 2 last winter in his field. I saw another one crossing the field behind my place. Didn’t have time to get him.

There is plenty of Wolves in and around BC too, but I wouldn't spend 300 bucks on the chance opportunity, nor would I encourage anyone else to spend 300 bucks on a chance opportunity.
I would reconsider if it was a baited hunt and I was sure I had time to put in the time to make it pay.

I wouldn’t pay $300 for a tag to go on a wolf hunt neither, not interested in wolf hunting at all. However, there are others who would happily pay 10x that much to do just that.