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Post by Jrbhunter on May 20, 2008 7:16:04 GMT -5
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Post by bobwendt on May 20, 2008 8:22:18 GMT -5
common eastern coyote. wolves have feet as big as grapefruits. I run into them in wyoming and they are easy 3-4 times the size of those dead coyotes. heads as bifg as basketbnalls. the average guy having never seen one can`t comprehend it. it`s like thinking a sheep is a cow. uh uh.
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Post by furbuy46 on May 20, 2008 9:03:58 GMT -5
I bought a pelt from a trapper from eastern Indiana that looked more like a wolf than a coyote. It was a very heavy, long furred animal with a broad head. It was in ni way a common coyote and it also was not a dog or a dog coyote cross. It had shorter ears than a yote and it's ears were also covered very heavy with fur. The snout was also not long and tapered like a yote is. I know it was not a timber wolf or a gray wolf, but suspect it to be a wolf hybrd of some kind or the other. It defiantly was a different typ canine than I am used to seeing come from Indiana. I have bought many thousands of coyote from this state, and it was not your common coyote.
I also know it was not a husky of any kind, nor a domesticated dog of any kind.
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Post by furbuy46 on May 20, 2008 9:07:18 GMT -5
Your average timber wolf is as big as most men and do have very large feet and very big heads. A good friend of mine caught a timber wolf in minnesota that he says was close to 150 lbs.
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Post by Jrbhunter on May 20, 2008 15:21:44 GMT -5
common eastern coyote. wolves have feet as big as grapefruits. I run into them in wyoming and they are easy 3-4 times the size of those dead coyotes. heads as bifg as basketbnalls. the average guy having never seen one can`t comprehend it. it`s like thinking a sheep is a cow. uh uh. Bob, these things make two of your hefty old 74 pound coyote. They'd be some unique coyotes- very unique indeed. I have my theories on where they came from. |
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Post by mac6 on May 20, 2008 15:57:43 GMT -5
I ran into some locals in Orange Co. a few years back that told me the DNR released 3 pair near my farm down there. I didn't pay much attention to the comments until I noticed some large K-9 tracks in the forestry. They weren't your average coon hound's tracks and they sure weren't the tracks from a "big" yote. I still run across them from time to time while turkey huntin and deer huntin.
2 years ago I seen, what at first, seemed to be a big yote. It got w/in a 100 yards or so when I thought to my self there's no way that's a yote.........if it was it was a 100lbs yote and really really pale! A 50lb yote looks big to me and this critter would have made 2 of 'em.
I'm not saying it was a wolf, and I'm not saying it's true what the locals down there have said but....................from what I've personally seen this story doesn't surprise me at all.
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Post by bobwendt on May 20, 2008 16:50:33 GMT -5
I used to trop for george harrel, johnson co sheepman. he had a red st bernard cross guard dog. one time the coyotes finally got him down and killed him before george could run them off of him. anyways, all the coyotes I caught there for years were way over size and red. I told george it was just a lovers spat, what killed his guard dog.
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Post by Delmar Morgan (mask bandit) on May 23, 2008 7:27:54 GMT -5
Furbuyer that was me you bought that hide off of.I talked to a guy that shot a wolf about 15 miles from me was killen his calves.Was confirmed by a warden said it was a red wolf and that was last year.
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Post by furbuy46 on May 23, 2008 9:32:49 GMT -5
How ya doin Delmar? I know it was you that had the pelt. It was a dandy speciman of something. The news just had a story of the [Wolf Dogs] On the tube last night
They had a picture of 4 dead animals that did not look like a common yote. They did not show a good close up of nothing but the canine teeth and very end of the mouth of the animals. They did have a good distance shot of the animals, but it was not real clear.
They had a CO at the location and he kinda acted like these animals were not you real true blue yote.
Delmar I think you and I talked about that fella when you were down here in feb. of this yr.
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Post by bobwendt on May 23, 2008 11:07:19 GMT -5
"warden said". lol. anythging the dnr says is now suspect, and it trickles down to all levels, deserved or not.
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Post by 0trapper on May 24, 2008 21:48:09 GMT -5
if you have wolfs in indiana, I suggest the 3 S's or the anti's will have all trapping and huntin shut down faster then you can wink, Oh wait, they are tryin that anyways.
Bob Wendt for President ;D
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Post by trapperknox on May 25, 2008 8:53:54 GMT -5
My uncle's state just opened up wolf season next Feb. 'Bout time to, the Wolf Lover Association kept saying, No!, finally their DNR got wolves to have a management plan. Before you could hunt or trap them unless, they were killing livestock and it had to be a family member to manage 'em.
MI they just took the wolf off of the endagered species list of their state. Still wondering when their going to allow a management plan, they're still in discussion about it.
In N. Iowa, I mean like the boundry line of IA and MN theirs a small gray wolf population. Basically, a half of a normal pack.
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