Coyotes are a problem a little.

I wonder if these boys like goldin marlin? If they come to far south we will find out!

They may get a taste of it up here before they ever make it that far!!

Check out these trail cam pictures.

Been seeing alot about wolves lately. There has been 3 or 4 ''confirmed'' DNA tested wolves shot here in my County in Illinois, the last of which was shot literally just down the road from our lodge. My hunters have seen a huge black one 3 times on our property this fall.

Wolves DO NOT belong OR have a place in the Illinois' outdoor scheme of things!!!!

And that my friends ''is all I have to say bout that''!!!

That black wolf would make a nice mount!

We have plenty of coyote's here that's for sure, I would have never thought a coyote could take down a healthy mature whitetail. The last known wolf in this area was killed way back in 1982. I was in jr high then and remember seeing it when it was brought in to the deer check station and it was bigger than some of the deer that were there. Now we have hog's some how getting to this arae of Illinois and we for sure dont want them they will be a disaster if we dont get them stoped.

Here in South Dakota the mountain lions are so out of control they have about wiped out the new elk and deer crops the last few years. In the Black Hills of western SD they collared 70 elk calves this summer and out of 70, one made it to the fall without being killed by lions. They figure there is 125 breeding age females inthe Black Hills that will have an average of 3 cubs each, the season ends when they kill 70 lions or 50 females and this year they killed 14 the opening weekend with no snow and are NOT allowed to even use dogs. The last time i did the math, 3 cubs times 125 females is about 375 new ones born each year. Why in the heck would anyone in the DNR think killing 70 would help the problem, it looks to me like its a good time to start a high fence hunting ranch here. If you can keep the cats and DNR biologists out it just might be the only place left to hunt, deer and elk that is. The remaining deer are getting rubbed out by all the doe licenses they are giving away along with free proccessing vouchers if you donate it to the hungry, every trigger happy killer is shooting the heck out of the buck producing does along with probably 10-20% button bucks. I really think the high fence deer hunts will be a thing of the future if you want to hunt where there is big bucks with a rifle. The end product MOST of the low fence sportsman want is shooter bucks, your not going to make more shooter bucks if you butcher all your does and a high percent of your button bucks right, the common sense is about gone in this country I'm afraid. It too bad for the sportsman but good for the deer farmer I guess. Times are a changin.

RLAwhitetails said:

We have plenty of coyote's here that's for sure, I would have never thought a coyote could take down a healthy mature whitetail. The last known wolf in this area was killed way back in 1982. I was in jr high then and remember seeing it when it was brought in to the deer check station and it was bigger than some of the deer that were there. Now we have hog's some how getting to this arae of Illinois and we for sure dont want them they will be a disaster if we dont get them stoped.

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I'm with you RLA. I would never have thought that a coyote would/could bring down a healthy adult whitetail. In fact, I still don't believe it.

Those ''coyotes'' in the pics are pretty 'leggy'. They look more like a wolf to me, but it's hard to tell in pictures sometimes just what is what.

But...if they are indeed coyotes, then I believe the buck was sick/injured before they started in on him.

Deerchaser said:

That black wolf would make a nice mount!

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Boy would it ever Brett, but they won't let you keep them here, and sooner than later they are going to quit accepting the excuse of ''I thought it was a coyote'' and put the hammer on people.

Actually, it isn't really an exuse at this point, cause wolves are not indigenous to our area, so it's only natural to think you are looking at an extra large coyote before you shoot.

Now, as time goes on, so does the awareness and then the hunter's responsibility.

You know what a wolf is worth in Wiscosin, which is just north of me 35 miles? Your gun, your truck, a big fine, and the loss of your hunting priviledges for a period of time.

Yep...I don't want them in my hunting area, and like I said in my other post ''that is all I have to say about that''.

Wolves are the problem up here, these pics were taken in Montana.

The DNR say there are 3500 T-Wolves in the state of MN. But there are at least 7000, give or take 5000 by my guess. One Wolf will eat at least 2 full grown deer a week!

Is that a collar on that wolf?

wow that wolf is huge

Yeah that is a collar, DNR...... I think.



Here is the story... names have been removed to protect identies...



Look at what was lurking in the neighborhood!!! He was shot this morning real near ***** house, which is about 10 miles from ours in a straight line. The wolf was about 300 yards from the house when ***** saw him. The wolf had some yearlings ewe lambs wadded up against a fence. He killed one that I know of and another had blood on her neck. ****** jumped in a pick-up and took off in hot persuit. **** hit him in the hip on the run and then one in the shoulder to finish him off. I heard he weighed right at 100 pounds. Notice the collar. Also check out the difference in size of the coyote and the wolf.******shot the coyote on the way over to look at the wolf.

Looks like you guys have a serious dog problem.

Well That was in Montana...



We do have quite a few in our area as well. I have only seen one though.

Rumors are that they (wolves) are here in southeast Minnesota,too. But if you shoot one, they probably have a chip in their ear. I wonder how a chip would get in their ear??

Probably imported. Guess who did that?



Rumor has it that there will be a T-wolf season next year in MN... I will sign up in a heartbeat.

If I lived there it would have been open season already for me. The old timers did not shoot them off for nothing.

I would aim at the ear! I don't believe they would survive in Alabama.