gigantor Posted October 20, 2017 Admin Share Posted October 20, 2017 Norse, I really gotta come visit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted October 20, 2017 Admin Share Posted October 20, 2017 Anytime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted October 26, 2017 Admin Share Posted October 26, 2017 More ideas! http://www.crazycrow.com/primitive-camp-shelters/canvas-wedge-tents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatFoot Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 On 10/19/2017 at 10:02 PM, gigantor said: Norse, I really gotta come visit... He's got a great setup, right? Any luck with the elk Norse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted December 11, 2017 Admin Share Posted December 11, 2017 Nope. Saw just two cows. And griz tracks and wolves. Thinking about moving my camp to the peninsula next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatFoot Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Actually saw wolves or the tracks? I'd have to imagine a close up wolf encounter would be very intimidating, much like a grizzly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted December 11, 2017 Admin Share Posted December 11, 2017 I heard them and my buddy saw them and took pics. Nah, they are no where as scary as a grizzly. They see you and start trotting off. I suppose in the right situation they could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatFoot Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 I picture sitting at a camp fire and then multiple sets of eyes start to glow just outside the light of the fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted December 11, 2017 Admin Share Posted December 11, 2017 I’ve kinda had that happen at the LeClerc creek camp. Something was in the horse feed in front of the tent. So I jumped up and grabbed my 44 and light and unzipped the tent flap. Two giant orbs stared at me roughly chest high. I cocked and aimed scared half to death. And then I recognized in the light a angus cow munching on sweet feed meant for my horses..... Doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWWASAS Posted December 11, 2017 BFF Patron Share Posted December 11, 2017 (edited) I had no idea wolves were in Clark County WA until a couple of years ago. I knew wolf packs had been working their way West from Eastern WA. I went down a trail in my research along a creek where I had seen coyotes playing the time before. I came back out the same muddy trail, and was started to see a very large prints in the mud that had not been there before when I went in. It had followed me for quite a while before leaving the trail. Photographed it and compared it to my tracks and scat book. Definitely wolf rather than dog. The pads in the back of the paw are different. Was a big one but was alone. I contacted the DNR and sent them the picture. Found out the wolf had been sighted before in the same area the week previous. Based on several sighting reports it looked to me like the DNR was trying to avoid people knowing that they are out there. Attacks on humans are very rare but they wreak havoc with livestock herds. That is why they were nearly killed off 100 years ago. I suspect it just watched as I went past. I think the packs might have a different dynamic when they are in a pack rather than a solitary wolf. Some dude close shot one he said was attacking him in a pack. The animal rights people wanted him arrested. But he contacted DNR and told them what happened. If he had killed it for sport he would not have contacted DNR. But since the wolf appeared to have been shot in the side the animal rights people wanted him arrested. It would never occur to some of those morons that if attacked, his first shots might have missed and the wolf turned away at the last second because of the gunshots and got shot in the side. It is a strange world where human life is less important than everything else. Edited December 11, 2017 by SWWASAS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bipedalist Posted December 12, 2017 BFF Patron Share Posted December 12, 2017 (edited) Reward for two killed in WA as we speak, endangered species still. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/12/reward_for_information_on_slai.html http://www.bartleby.com/246/1131.html See wildlife photos in campfire chat in MT http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~clifflamere/Misc/MI-LogRenWyck.htm It is war in ID and MT against these critters, helicopter shooting of packs in many instances.in ID..... so glad I try not to spend much money in Idaho! (hard to do with all the beauty in that state) Takes a real man to shoot from a helicopter and gas them in their den. Pick your poison so to speak. i'll go with the wolf pack anyday over a lieing SOB! Easy out to state you are a victim of wolf attack, when documentation over hundreds of years indicates you can count on one hand such incidents! I wear a T-shirt if in the field, it says, "...the strength of the pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the pack." ~~~Rudyard Kipling http://www.bartleby.com/246/1131.html Oh, hot-tenting for me is being roasted by a campfire on one side and then plenty of long-underwear and down to keep in the heat from the brandy! Edited December 12, 2017 by bipedalist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bipedalist Posted December 12, 2017 BFF Patron Share Posted December 12, 2017 (edited) Heck I'm not bothered by a hot tent or wolves as much as: https://idahostatejournal.com/outdoors/xtreme_idaho/hundreds-of-wild-turkeys-menace-north-utah-city/article_a0dae266-9aa2-5ca5-b13b-53f7a5c333ba.html#tncms-source=article-nav-next Why gas wolves when you can send them to Utah! Better tenting not having to dodge all the poo! Edited December 12, 2017 by bipedalist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted December 12, 2017 Admin Share Posted December 12, 2017 I hope they eradicate them....not that they will. It takes arsenic, and that will never be implemented again. It kills anything that eats on the bait. So wolves are here to stay. And many ranching families will continue to suffer. All you can do is beat em back from the herds. Canids are prolific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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