As I promised I will post the story just because this forum gave me so much about hunting. It's time for me to give something back to amuse some of you hopefully.
It was a very difficult deer season for me this year. I have several sweet spots all about 2 to 3 hours from home. Usually there are many deer running around, but barely see any foot prints this year. I blamed this is because we have too many hunters. Obviously I was wrong.
After several unsuccessful hunting trips(but I still enjoyed every each trip lol....), I decided to drive a little further to the north. I like to walk. I chose a small trail walking very slowly after parking my vehicle. How slow? 2 miles cost me about 3 hours! I did see some fresh deer foot prints this time, but not many. Way less than previous years. The weather was cold and after a while I though maybe I could sit a while to catch my breath and refresh myself......
Still no deer.... So, I decided to walk out of the woods. I saw a SUV coming. It's a hunter road hunting around. We talked a bit and he said he saw a timber wolf standing on a leasing road about 15 min ago not far from the spot where we talked, and then drove away. I became excited thinking if I could be lucky enough to get a timber wolf today. That's way better than a WT. I keep walking on the lease road with the wind on my face. It was so so cold, but I still leave my two ears stick out.... lol....
A deep slope ahead. I walked as slow as I could. After I climbed almost on the top of the slope, suddenly I saw two things moving just down the road about 60 to 100 yard away. One grey like coyote, anther one black. Instinct told me set up the rifle prepare to shoot. In about 2 to 3 seconds, I was ready and I saw from my scope, these are wolfs! To my knowledge, there is no black coyote, and coyote never stay together with a wolf.....The grey one was at the front and black one just behind standing side by side. Obviously they saw me as well because I could see from my rifle scope that they are standing looking at me nervously. Aim... release safety..... bang! I saw the grey one down!!! This certainly shocked the black one. She was still standing wondering. I aimed and pull the trigger.....no bullet in the chamber! load the bullet, aim again.... I saw the black one running like a crazy into the woods.....
The grey one lying there kicking and struggling. Obviously it was a clean shot. After about 5 min or so, he stopped moving. But I was still very nervously walking towards the wolf thinking I will be solid dead if he suddenly jump on me. He should be more than 100lb, big one. I leave my safety open holding the rifle aiming at the wolf until I was 100% sure he was dead.... It was a male timber wolf!
I thought of gutting the wolf and prepared everything after taking exciting pictures, but I gave up since I knew there was another wolf in the woods. Who knows what could happen? So, I packed up and drove home just be safe.....
End of story and thank you everyone for reading.
Last.... it would be very much appreciated if anyone could recommend me a tannery or taxidermist. Thank you in advance!
Some other photos for you lol.....
timber wolf hunting story
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