WOLF TRAPPING IN THE US

[Brent Sinclair]

Looks like you fellas south of the border will have a chance to kill some wolves this winter...
Get together with everyone you know in your area and make plans as to where your going to trap.
This IS a KEY factor in your success.
If everyone just heads out with a couple wolf traps and a hand full of snares all your going to do is educate your target.

Get together and have a plan , try to stay area specific from one and other and you will kill more wolves than if your trompin around every place you can over top of your neighbor....

Get baits out as early as possiable, where it is legal to put them, let the wolves feed as long as you can before setting your snares..
Keep your snares at least 300 + yards away from your baits, this is important!!!!!
Get your traps ready as soon as you know your going to be serious about killing some wolves.
Set your pan tention at 8lbs ....this is the optimum weight, it will let coyotes and stray dogs walk over them and not set them off in most cases.
locate sign as early as possiable, if you know where wolves are traveling watch for scent trees and places where they mark their territory and make a mental note of it, take some dog urine when your going to make your set and use that as your lure...it is the best you will ever have..

I just got 6 tanned wolf hides back today of the 13 I trapped and snared last winter, most were taken on a pee post set....

Good Luck

[dwalton]

I don't think we can trap them yet. We can only hunt them. We love wolves down here, they are such a part of the balance of nature. It is a shame that we can kill them. If left alone, that might stop all killing of wildlife by hunters because there will be nothing left to hunt. When they are all gone up north you guys can come down here and get some to reintroduce them up there. You know that the wolves only kill the weak and sick. They keep the wildlife healthy...... Wolves are a good thing and if you believe this I have a bridge in Brooklyn I will sale you. Dewey

[hounddude]

YOU CAN IN IDAHO
5 a year

[Brent Sinclair]

[quote="dwalton"]IYou know that the wolves only kill the weak and sick.

What the antis and pro wolf people fail to reccognize or believe is ......wolves in most cases chase the prey until it is so weak it becomes sick from exhaustion and then they kill it!!!!!
This is a proven fact!!!

Here in Canada wolves can run real fast........but they die tired...!!!!

[Machias]

Great stuff Brent, thanks for sharing. I won't be able to trap for them this year, but I hope to do it next winter. Thanks again!

[JasonBB]

right on Brent those are some good liking hides,keep on catching those dogs,man would i like to experience one of those elk killers in a trap !!!!

[chilcotin hillbilly]

Brent, I am giving it a go this year with a handful of iron sitting at my feet and a box of snares. Wolves killed a 4 point today so i dragged it off and started my bait pile where I want it. Started watching the travel routes and making a mental note of the piss posts.
Its to bad I scared the wolves off the deer with my quad I might of had a crack at one.
I may call you and pick your brain a little.

[R Severe]

Very good advice Brent.

You Idaho guys have a chance to do something that we never thought we'd have a chance at in the lower 48. Go for it.

[Troudt]

Ya, Idaho still has good legislators. You guys in Oregon need to get more hunters to the polls
Oregon is getting overwhelmed

[LDB]

BTT, for those looking. Let's do something about these suckers folks. The next thing we are going to need to do is make wolf trapping regs in Idaho a little more hound friendly, but first things first, lets kill some wolves.

I have no doubts that there is more than one anti hunter who has accessed this site and will be reading this so to you I will say I am not a bloodthirsty killer, I am nothing more than another predator, as natural as the wolf himself, I do not kill for a thrill, I do it for one simple reason I am a natural predator. There is very little separating me from the wolf, we both do it for the same 3 fundamental reasons, to feed ourselves and our family (pack), to limit competition for the resources available, to teach our young the traditions of all predators. Your continual efforts to stop us from limiting the competition for the resources available will never change this fact. I have four canine teeth and I am not in denial of this, the thing that does separate me from all the other predators is that I feel compassion and apply reason to where, when and how I harvest from the resources available.

Wolves will exist as long as man will. The reason for this is that man has gained control to a degree in this eternal struggle. Left without human predation the cycle of wolf predation is not feasible, it will be long periods of very low deer, elk, moose & even black bear numbers until wolves disperse to other areas looking for food. They will move back in as soon as deer, elk & moose populations recover. Within a few years the cycle starts all over again. Soon the western states will be completely inhabited and there will be no more game rich areas to disperse into, at this point packs turn on one another, and even kill pack mates to limit competition for the resources available. Like the wolf we have a brain, central nervous system, heart, lungs, four appendages, four canines but we have more right to be the predator at the top of the food chain because we do feel compassion and apply reason to where, when and how we harvest from the resources available. This will result in a healthier ecosystem in the long run period. The wolf was never meant to be the apex predator, man was. In order to have a free state you must let others be free to be themselves. I am a predator.

There is a storm brewing in this country and it is being fueled by the liberal agenda to control others and remove the freedoms that have made this the greatest nation to live in that there has ever been. You people just don't seem to understand that. I am not going to be the one to champion a movement, political or otherwise. I have a family to raise and feed and have no interest in becoming a politician or a martyr. I am actually a rather passive person who enjoys solitude and nature but just keep in mind we are predators by our DNA composition. No law that the masses of completely out of touch with nature people in the cities passes will ever change this fact. Peace has always been a great slogan for the liberal agenda so I will say to you, if you really want peace then quit trying to cram your ideals down our throat. If your compassion is so uncontrollable that you can not bear to see an animal die, then don't participate or watch others participate in hunting and trapping. I think you will find that by not constantly visiting subjects that you do not like you will find more personal peace and harmony with your fellow countrymen.

[Brent Sinclair]

Very good advice Brent.
I trapped a couple wolves this fall to radio collar them. Real learning curve for sure. Lots of coyote experience but that only helped a little.

Hopefully the work I helped with will hurry up the delisting process and give our state some management tools to work with. I'm sure gonna push for a trapping season on wolves when we get to that point.

You Idaho guys have a chance to do something that we never thought we'd have a chance at in the lower 48. Go for it.

Get your hounds out and make a few pee post sets where you are legal to trap wolves...or any dog for that matter, it works..
Three wolves today and they are dumb when it comes to a pee post, they can not resist to check it out.

[livetohunt]

Thats awsome Brent thanks for sharing. You guys need to come get this one running around California and take it back up there where you can kill it while your at it.

[Brent Sinclair]

I'd love to have that chance , if I caught it though it would look alot like this one from today!!!

[Brent Sinclair]

Have recieved several pm's on how to make a wolf set so tried to get a couple photos to show where I pick a spot to put in a leghold trap.
Find a big fir along a trail or road where you have seen wolf sigh, and look for a side of the tree that helps place the wolves foot in a natural location about 16" from the base on a 45angle.
I like to let my biggest hound walk around the area I am wanting to make a set and they will tell you almost exactly where to make it....watch his foot placement, he's alot like a wolf and if you put your trap where he has stepped chances are your going to get your wolf.
Put your trap inside a light produce bag from the supermarket and make sure it is bedded firm in place...no movement at all...then cover it with what is removed from the place you took the ground out to make room for the trap...try to eliminate any unecessary disturbance of ground you can...
Place a plascit pail over your trap and let your hounds out of the dog box to walk around the area, if they will , let them take a pee on the tree your trap is by but any tree or shrub close will work..
do this in a week or so to freshen up the set...paitents it works!!!

[stephen]

hey brent thanks for the info on the post! Im taking the Idaho Trapping class this Friday but it doesnt really give me enough time to go out and make sets being that are trapping season is only till the 16th. I have a couple of questions.

What size traps are you using?
And do you do very well with snares? and if you do what is your recomened set up is it with bait or do you use them around your footholds?

thanks, steve