Well I made a mistake this spring that is going to haunt me until I kill my first bear. We found a nice bear on Sunday morning. He was moving across an
avalanche slide. We climbed up the mountain but was unable to find him in the thick brush. After going back down...I range finded the opening he came
across...I had a 250 yard shot and didn't realize it! Ugh. Those steep mountain sides are deceiving. I figured he was over twice that distance. It was
a fun weekend anyway...gotta love hunting the mountains. We saw elk, moose, a mountain lion, and I called in a wolverine. Anyone know the regs on shooting
wolverines?? I feel pretty confident about getting a bear next year...this area we saw the bear was perfect.
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2009 Spring Bear
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Posts: 1016 (06/02/09 02:28 PM) Sumo Cat |
Sounds like a sweet time! I bet calling in that wolverine got the adrenaline going!
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Posts: 170 (06/02/09 02:37 PM) Sumo Cat |
it looks like you can shoot them in every region except 6 and 7. season is dec 1 - feb 15...you can shoot them. allowed to posess one a season.
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Posts: 169 (06/02/09 02:50 PM) Stone Cat |
No doubt it does sound like a sweet time. Did the wolverine get listed for protection this last year??? I remember some storey like this in the paper not to
long ago. And have no idea what become off it. From what I know about wolverines you are very fortunate to see one. Congrats that would have been very COOL!
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Posts: 171 (06/02/09 03:58 PM) Sumo Cat |
from what i see, it looks like they were hunted this last season ending in january...here is the section on the FWP site. i think i am reading this right
anyways. looks pretty rare to see one...i agree!
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Posts: 170 (06/03/09 07:17 AM) Stone Cat |
I found the story I read in the Billings paper last fall. It looks like enviro groups were just pushing to put them on the endangered list. Along with others.
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Posts: 578 (06/03/09 10:45 AM) Moderator |
Spotty...I had heard the same thing. What I read on the fish and game website sounds like the population is okay and that they're pretty adaptable
animals...even living near humans. Environmental groups probably think they need to be protected because they just don't see them much.
So I suppose you have to purchase a trappers license to shoot one and then you can only shoot them during Dec 1 to Feb 15?? Sounds like a pretty unique animal...I'd like a tanned pelt of one...might have to try and call one in and shoot one during the season. Steve...we got more of the "oh sh!t" feeling because when we first saw it...we thought it was a grizzly bear cub. |
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Posts: 579 (06/03/09 10:52 AM) Moderator |
Here's that article I found.....it's a good read.
http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articles/portraits/wolverine.htm
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06/03/09 10:54 AM.
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Posts: 173 (06/03/09 12:24 PM) Sumo Cat |
ya...need a trappers license.
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Posts: 343 (06/03/09 06:01 PM) Blue Cat |
I would kill to see a wolverine they are such neat creatures! From what I have heard they are ferocious!! |
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Posts: 174 (06/10/09 03:54 PM) Stone Cat |
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/06/10/news/state/17-wolves.txt I
would love to know HOW IN THE FREAKING HELL they seem to think there are just 500 outside Alaska. Whatever I better go home before I lose it.
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Posts: 590 (06/11/09 07:44 AM) Moderator |
I'd like to know how they come up with their numbers. Some factual evidence to support something like this would be nice.
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Posts: 179 (06/11/09 02:21 PM) Sumo Cat |
ya im sure the animal rights people are out there counting them...haha.
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Posts: 200 (06/11/09 04:51 PM) |
doesn't the crazy mountains have the highest # in the lower us? thats what I heard a few years back, a friend of mine finally trapped one in 07 I believe.
I have only seen on in the wild, man can they move out fast.
Just got some word on were to go spring bear next year, buddy of mine seen 29 this year. He wants a brown color phased, and had one at 100yrds after a 2hr stock. Mountain was so steep he laid down to take the shot, well right as he went to squeeze one off, he started to slide down the mountain. Needless to say the gun went off, "finger on the trigger" and he missed. This guy is sick about it, loves to hunt bears, has a life sized, and one rug. |
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Posts: 178 (06/12/09 06:57 AM) Stone Cat |
I believe that is true about the Crazies.
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Posts: 596 (06/12/09 08:33 AM) Moderator |
Hardrocker wrote:That's funny. Animal rights people conduct research by driving roads and counting what they see. If they don't see any, they must be near extinct. Sounds logical...I mean how many wolverines have all of us seen while driving around?? |
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