[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:
Quasi everyone in the west is used to it, you just drive. Most folks have chains for their vehicles and what not as well.
Also on wolves- headline reads “625 wolves left in Montana, over 6000 permits to hunt them issued”
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/359034
I have no idea if the numbers are true, just found it interesting something was being done. A $19 wolf tag, I’d like to bag one.[/quote]
They are very very hard to find. It aint deer hunting. They likely won’t be hunted by “going wolf hunting.” They will be shot while someone is out doing something else.
This article is hideously inaccurate journalism. Montana has a strict wolf harvest quota system by district. When the quota is met in a particular district, that’s it, the season’s over in that district.
Yes, one can legally take up to five wolves in a season by a combination of hunting and trapping but it’d be very tough to do. You’d have to travel to several different districts to do it.
Only a fraction of the state, less than half, is open to wolf hunting and there is a season.
Also the comparison with Wyoming is misleading.
Thus, when the article says, “If only 2.1% of hunters issued a permit this year reach their bag limit, the wolf will disappear from Montana altogether,” this is pure, unadulterated bullshit.
“As wolves are pack animals, a single hunter will likely be able to kill several wolves in a single trip.” No, not legally. http://fwp.mt.gov/hunting/planahunt/huntingGuides/wolf/
Wolves were not last hunted in the '90’s like the article says. It was the 1930’s.
Last year, the state sold over 18,000 tags. 225 wolves were taken.
Deceit is strong with the Digital Journal.
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I should have prefaced, someone shared this on facebook. I only posted it cause of the relevance (or lack of it). I was familiar with some of the numbers but I did not know how few were taken.
