Monster Alaskan Wolf

[Welsh_red 4,694]

this is a mahossive wolf I seen on YouTube ages ago 

 

 

[gazjon5 845]

1 hour ago, Welsh_red said:

I listen to the meateater podcast every week and I have to say the American model for wildlife management sounds incredibly controlled and thought out . The way tag limits can rise and drop over the years to meet the population is a great way to run things 

If a set number of a certain species needs to be culled in a year then I'd rather it be by hunters whose money goes back into funding of animal research and conservation.  I can't remember what the "act" or law was but basically all tags for animals goes straight back into wildlife and has zero talen on it for other government spending . 

Me personally I don't know if I would like to shoot a wolf or a bear . I'd love to see one and gauge its size . With big predators like this I've always wishes I could be invisible just so I could stand next to them and see them real up close 

That being said even though I wouldn't really fancy shooting one I could quite happily go along side someone hunting them for the experience 

I was the same when I first got over here and had no interest in hunting bears or wolves. I think a lot of that I was down to the image the media / Disney/ antis portray of them. But after a couple of years I realised for me  it's no different to hunting fox back home, there is a ton of them here and they do cause problems. Plus spring time is boring as f**k (you can't fish April / May with the ice break up) and bear season is the only thing to do. 

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9 hours ago, gazjon5 said:

I was the same when I first got over here and had no interest in hunting bears or wolves. I think a lot of that I was down to the image the media / Disney/ antis portray of them. But after a couple of years I realised for me  it's no different to hunting fox back home, there is a ton of them here and they do cause problems. Plus spring time is boring as f**k (you can't fish April / May with the ice break up) and bear season is the only thing to do. 

For me I don't think it's the Disney disneyfication,  I think it's more the fact that because I've never been around them I'd just be fascinated in seing them.  Obviously I know the damage they can do but because its never effected me or I've never seen it effect anyone I know my first instinct would be to just watch them 

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Fiends up in Canada have just lost all their goats and ponies to coyotes.even after shooting a dozen or so.

[gazjon5 845]

7 hours ago, Welsh_red said:

For me I don't think it's the Disney disneyfication,  I think it's more the fact that because I've never been around them I'd just be fascinated in seing them.  Obviously I know the damage they can do but because its never effected me or I've never seen it effect anyone I know my first instinct would be to just watch them 

That's a fair point, i still love to watch bears when i come across one, or listen to wolves howling at night, its just i now have no issue putting one down when needed. I am sure most on here love watching wildlife, even though we hunt. I have seen some pretty cool stuff since been over here, without a doubt the best was sat in a treestand with my son when a pack of 6 or 7 wolves of came past at about 50yds, leapfrogging each other while the stopped ones scanned ahead, it was awesome.