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• CaliFFL Senior Member Posts: 5,486 Senior Member

  November 2019 #2

  Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation along with Idaho F&G have given grants to a group called Foundation for Wildlife Management to fund the bounties. The ads claim $1000 per wolf, but the grants total less than $50K. Not everyone with a wolf carcass will get paid. 
  
  Non-hunters are complaining loudly, but the wolf numbers are increasing by ~1000 per year. IMO, the wolf numbers could be kept in check if the elk and deer hunters didn't hang up their rifles when the ungulate seasons end.  
  
  Wolf trapping is a PITA and expensive. There's an eight hour mandatory class. There's a pile of regulations concerning non-target species. In winter, it's nearly impossible without a snowmobile. The hides aren't worth anything. Just not enough hobbyists participating. 
  

  When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.
  
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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  November 2019 #3

  Maybe an guide/outfitter/tourist oppertunity for savy businesses???

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• CHIRO1989 Senior Member Posts: 14,207 Senior Member

  November 2019 edited November 2019 #4

  They need to run the wolf rifle season consecutively with deer and elk season, hunt those gut piles. 

  I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11

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• CaliFFL Senior Member Posts: 5,486 Senior Member

  November 2019 #5

  CHIRO1989 said:

  They need to run the wolf rifle season consecutively with deer and elk season, hunt those gut piles. 

  The seasons run consecutively. In fact, wolf season is 6 months long on public land and open season if private property. Tags are cheap. Only a small percentage of hunters pursue wolves.  
  
  
  https://idfg.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/seasons-rules-big-game-2019-2020-wolf.pdf
  

  When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.
  
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• CHIRO1989 Senior Member Posts: 14,207 Senior Member

  November 2019 #6

  CaliFFL said:

  CHIRO1989 said:

  They need to run the wolf rifle season consecutively with deer and elk season, hunt those gut piles. 

  The seasons run consecutively. In fact, wolf season is 6 months long on public land and open season if private property. Tags are cheap. Only a small percentage of hunters pursue wolves.  
  
  
  https://idfg.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/seasons-rules-big-game-2019-2020-wolf.pdf
  

  Dang, ONE season like that in MN and the deer population would be much happier.

  I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11

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• Jayhawker Moderator Posts: 18,118 Senior Member

  November 2019 #7

  We had a wolf season in MI a few years back....the hunt produced less than half of the numbers DNR wanted to cull...a lot of folks thought that hunting wolves was like hunting coyote....
  

  Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"

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• CaliFFL Senior Member Posts: 5,486 Senior Member

  November 2019 #8

  Jayhawker said:

  We had a wolf season in MI a few years back....the hunt produced less than half of the numbers DNR wanted to cull...a lot of folks thought that hunting wolves was like hunting coyote....
  

  I'd say hunting the two canines require similar techniques, but different calls. 
  
  
  

  When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.
  
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