I've been thinking about booking a Wolf Hunt.I wonder, what are the average success rates for hunting wolves over bait?Does anyone here have a particular outfitter they could/would recommend?Any advice would be appreciated.

Where are you looking to hunt?

I've really been wanting a Wolf for some time & really looked for one last year in Alberta & will be looking again in a couple of weeks while hunting bears in Manitoba.

One day I look to book a hunt just for Wolf, but I want to call one in & all the guides I talk to think I'm crazy.

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Originally posted by sdeshazo:
One day I look to book a hunt just for Wolf, but I want to call one in & all the guides I talk to think I'm crazy.

Many years ago just for the helluvit I used some deer "apple scent" scent coverup (normally used where I hunted in southern Ontario) when I was in northern Ontario (where there are wolves).

I heard something making the tiniest of sounds, and getting closer to me. I saw nothing for ages, but there was something coming and it made me hold my breath because it sounded like it was damn close...

Finally I saw a wolf about 3 yards from me when he/she blinked and my eye detected the movement.

We looked at each other for a while, then the wolf just melted back into the vegetation as it moved back the way it came.

I'm sure that it was just curious about the odd apple smell which surely it had never smelled this far north. In retrospect, the apple scent must have covered my human scent fairly well.

To come eyeball to eyeball with a wild wolf at the length of a sofa was really neat. I could have shot it, but it was a small wolf and had a scruffy pelt, so I settled for the excitement of seeing one so close.

I used to know a guy who was determined to get wolf by calling one in -- and shooting it with a bow and arrow! Don't know if he ever got one though! By coincidence, this was Manitoba (Duck Mountains).

Good luck and enjoy Manitoba.

John (a Canuck in Sweden, if you are wondering!)

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Originally posted by SHOOTIST:
Where are you looking to hunt?

In the Alberta area.

There are some outfitters in Western Alberta that book hunts for elk, moose and deer. Some of them insist that all their clients buy a wolf tag as well. They don't like the fact that wolf numbers are up and the wolves are eating the game they guide hunters for. So they want their hunters prepaired to shoot a wolf if an opportunity arises.

I was hunting mule deer west of Rocky Mt. Hse. and saw some wolves chasing white-tails. I set up and used a deer, "fawn distress" call. Two wolves came running towards me and I shot them both.



Robin down under

Congratulations! This seems to be much more of an adventure than hunting deer!

The guy who owns the lodge where I moose hunt does wolf hunts:

http://www.winteringlakeresort.com/mainpage.html

Duffy4

Thank you for your good work!

What caliber is your Savage?

The savage is in .300 savage. I hit the farthest wolf (about 80 yards) and then swung and hit the second one that died at 40 steps away on the one shot. I had to go back at the other wolf and empty my magazine on him as he tryed to get away. I fired 6 shots in all.

A pretty exciting episode in my hunting career.

Robin down under

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Manitoba

Is a long way from Alberta. Different hunting regs too. Start here. http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/wildlife/hunting/index.html

Is there anywhere you can hunt wolves in the summer? I never really thought about it but it could be a fun hunt.

You want to hunt wolfs in January or Febuary that is when the pelt is at it's prime. They sure do make a great rug.

hello;
I live in south central Alberta and hunting wolves involved a major expedition in the past, but I got two last year, very close to home. You're allowed to bait them here and I know a couple of guys who've called them in accidentally with cow elk calls. Lots on the Ya Ha Tinda area and just about everywhere else, but they're endangered, you know.
Grizz

Yep, been hearing them each year, Grizz and I managed to miss a couple of pitch black ones, and every rancher you talk to along the foothills has stories... Grizz we might have to put in another effort this year, it's been 2 1/2 years since I killed one.

Frans

Hi Frans;
Talked to the rancher on that Grazing lease a couple of weeks ago and they're still some waiting for us there.
Grizz

dirtriderbike44:

Shootist asked you a very pertinent question. (Think about it) Read his last line. If you want simply to shoot the ancestor of all our dogs -then go to it! The last time that I ever posted in defense of wolves I got more posts of hatred than you could imagine. Let me see if I can start over again. Any wolf that is preying on cattle or sheep should be shot on sight. Any man/woman hunting wolves should be on their own. (BTW, game outfitters and guides don't impress me with their tales. What they object to about wolves is that -in the particular game season- the "client" won't get a shot -or that the animal will be "runty". They don't like "cycles" in Nature. Shooting a couple of hungry animals (as pictured) does not impress me)

WOLVES,To shoot or not is a legit debate.

First of all I would say it is very hard to find an area where ALL the natural systems of nature are intact. Man has such an influence on things. Alberta has a fairly large population of hunters and hunters want to have game to hunt. Moose permits are on a draw which means there are not enough moose to satisfy the wants of hunters. So the fewer moose being eaten by wolves the better for hunters. One could say that the hunters should wait in line and the wolves do have a "right" to eat moose.

A recent study in west centeral Alberta points out that the size of a wolf pack will dictate what they mainly prey on. I belive the transition number was 7 wolves. 7 or lower a pack will mainly kill and eat deer. (there are lots and lots of deer in Alberta right now.) A pack of more than 7 will mainly kill and eat moose and elk. With the abundance of deer it is not hard for wolf pups to get enough to eat and so a small pack can grow into a larger pack by eating deer.

One of the wolves I shot (pictured above) was wearing a radio collar and the pack was part of the wolf study. I spoke to the fellow doing the study when I turned in the collar and let him have the carcuses. The pack was right at the number 7 and so they may have been about to turn into moose eaters. I reduced the pack to 5 and so for a time anyway they would exist nicely on deer.

By putting out forest fires for a long time man has had a negative effect on moose and elk populations. Controling wolf populations and pack sizes will help moose and elk numbers to recover as proper logging practices provide more "post fire like" habitats.

Robin down under

duffy4:

It was nice to read your thoughtful (and gentlemanly)statement about wolves. I reread my post and hasten to say that I meant no insult to you in shooting the wolves. My argument is that there has to be a balance between what hunters want to do -and whether we want to preserve a "balance" in Nature. I read your post with interest and I respect you as a Canadian living in the heart of wolf country. (Wolves killed an old dog at a lodge I used to go to in Ontario -apparently luring him out on to the ice of the lake one night. I used to often pet that old dog (A Gordon setter) I would have happily shot those wolves if I had come upon them. My point is that while individual hunters may have reasons to shoot wolves that wolves are a necessary part of the "balance of nature" That's my only point)