A friend just sent me this pix along with some words to go with the pix.
These things are HUGE!!!

" First two wolves of the first five wolves (shot legally) near Pinedale and Big Piney, Wyoming after the season for wolves was opened up. I would venture to say they are 'just a little bit bigger' than the local coyotes! These were caught, with two others, in a calving pen, killing livestock.....not eating the livestock, just killing it. I'm thinkin' my 340 Weatherby isn't too much gun for one of these critters..... fortunately the wolves I saw on Wanda's place weren't near this size...... they were 3x the size of our coyotes though.....these guys have been eating really well! Actually, eating TOO WELL! It's no wonder the elk and moose calves only have a 20% chance of making it to 6 months old in the Yellowstone area with these big boys around! Amazingly, the Colorado Division of Wildlife has requested anyone catching a wolf or wolverine in a leg hold trap to "please try to release it alive"....... that could be a pretty good trick! I was expecting much smaller wolves to be in the 'not safe for wolves zone' ...... wonder how big the wolves are that ran these two out of the 'safe zone'?


Don't think I want to snowshoe or cross country ski in Wyoming anymore........ expect to see these critters in Colorado pretty soon.....coming to a favorite deer or elk haunt near you!"

HOLY SHEEEEYYYAAATT...THEY ARE HUGE!!! DANG!

they look like shooters for shure!

that pics has been sent to me about 10 times now, each time with a diff place attached to it.. WY, MT, ID, UT..... I think they were REALLY taken in the Yukon, if my memory serves me.

When I got it they were from Alaska......doesn't take away however, from the fact they are beautiful carnivores and a renewable, huntable resource....good hunting and congrats to whoever they are!

IV

They're on an Alaskan guide's website, from 2005.
Alaskan Wolves

I don't care where they were killed....I'm focused on the mass!! Dem sum beeg doggies!

Of course they are huge, a steady diet of elk calves any carnivore will grow., I have seen numerous reports they are from Pinedale area. Even the Casper paper carried it. You look at the rim in the left of the pic, and it looks like Wyoming.

i thought bison where the only remaining gigafauna

dire wolves?
WOW .. i don't hunt canines, but WOW, these are livestock destorying so and sos

They delisted Montana and Idaho today. But not Wyoming becuase of the dual classification. Needs to be taken to court. The recovery was for the three state area, and a population, not a state by state situation. All of the feds requirements were met and exceded in Wyoming, but they don't like Wyomings stance and law. More lies by the federal government.

Kudu 56

Are you sure, I haven't seen anything on Wyoming Game and Fish web-site or SCI


Thanks
Steve

It's true Steve, delisted except Wy- At least until we get a new administration, or another activist judge
http://www.idahostatesman.com/...es/story/632705.html

Well that really sucks, but with our goverment it doesn't suprise me.

A little Timk and a hamburger ball will...

Well you won't have to "S.S.S." L O L

Steve

Steve, I think the Shovel portion of that equation is completely unnecessary.

jcarr,

You are correct, waste of good energy

Steve