Monster Alaskan Wolf

[Welsh_red 4,711]

this is a mahossive wolf I seen on YouTube ages ago 

 

 

[gazjon5 851]

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. 

[Welsh_red 4,711]

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 

[.357shooter 1,241]

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

[gazjon5 851]

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.

[saluki bouy 740]

On 03/02/2025 at 10:14, gnipper said:

Greyhound foxes or something like that?

That was the one pal

[leegreen 2,196]

On 03/02/2025 at 09:23, king said:

That's a good watch mate..

I've just been watching a few of this lads videos..the dog knows his job luring the coyotes in fair play..

 

That's the strangest thing.  Thought it was a Lurcher bought off here 

[Rickshaw swami 4,155]

On 03/02/2025 at 17:09, gazjon5 said:

Nope never tried it pal but a lot of people do, (the griz are protected here and cannot be hunted, black bear are common though and an over the counter tag to hunt). Just to note over 60% of Alberta is crown land, and there is no need to get permission to hunt it, you just have to make sure you follow the seasons, bag limits etc. The fish and wildlife officers here have more power than the coppers and dont feck about lol... Edited to add the 60% includes some parks like Jasper / Banff where you cant hunt, (but there is still a ton of land where you dont need permission)

Black bear roast cooked in a crockpot for 16 hours is probably the best meat I've ever had.

[WataWalloper 679]

2 minutes ago, Rickshaw swami said:

Black bear roast cooked in a crockpot for 16 hours is probably the best meat I've ever had.

I’d love to try that 

 

[gazjon5 851]

On 08/02/2025 at 09:29, Rickshaw swami said:

Black bear roast cooked in a crockpot for 16 hours is probably the best meat I've ever had.

I think with bear a lot depends on what they have been feeding on. A fall bear that's been eating oats and berries all summer is meant to be superb. One that's had a lot of fish or been raiding trash for its diet is often on the other end of the scale, at least that's what a lot of people round here say.

[mackem 27,294]

7 hours ago, gazjon5 said:

 One that's had a lot of fish for its diet is often on the other end of the scale, 

I was told that grizzly when building up fat during the autumn salmon run are inedible due to their 100% fish diet,I have been 50 yards off the upper reaches of a salmon river at the ending of the run and you can smell the river before you see it,rotting dead fish,I can only imagine the taste of bear after eating salmon for a month.

[WataWalloper 679]

3 hours ago, mackem said:

I was told that grizzly when building up fat during the autumn salmon run are inedible due to their 100% fish diet,I have been 50 yards off the upper reaches of a salmon river at the ending of the run and you can smell the river before you see it,rotting dead fish,I can only imagine the taste of bear after eating salmon for a month.

I saw that on one the meat eaters or similar podcasts. But they also said get a bear that been eating blueberry’s an it’s amazIng 

[Rickshaw swami 4,155]

18 hours ago, gazjon5 said:

I think with bear a lot depends on what they have been feeding on. A fall bear that's been eating oats and berries all summer is meant to be superb. One that's had a lot of fish or been raiding trash for its diet is often on the other end of the scale, at least that's what a lot of people round here say.

That's interesting.The ones I ate came from Appalachian Mountains.1000 Miles from any salmon.Oats berries bugs was their diet as far as I know.