Hunter55
Active member
Unfruitful Wolf hunt
I’m passing this along so other hunters don’t hit a pothole in the road.
I’ve only been on 2 guided hunts of my life, one for hogs and the other was a Idaho wolf hunt. There are no hogs around here so the hog hunt, well was a hog hunt nothing spectacular but I got a hog.
A few years back a friend who knew this outfitter in Idaho talked me into a wolf hunt, sounds good right? Well we drive all the way to Idaho fly out of base camp and standing around the fire talking and the guide starts talking about the wolves they’ve been catching in traps I thought oh crap, my odds of success just plummeted. Of all the questions a fellow could ask prior to the hunt, I never pondered to ask, “Are you trapping wolves”?
Well as luck would have it, or not, we spent 5 days tromping around in the snow never to even see a damn wolf track. Course I fully understand hunting is hunting and I also understand if an outfitter is trapping, well, that don’t help the success rate of paying customers. So, if you ever consider a hunt of sorts ask the fellow if he traps.
I’m passing this along so other hunters don’t hit a pothole in the road.
I’ve only been on 2 guided hunts of my life, one for hogs and the other was a Idaho wolf hunt. There are no hogs around here so the hog hunt, well was a hog hunt nothing spectacular but I got a hog.
A few years back a friend who knew this outfitter in Idaho talked me into a wolf hunt, sounds good right? Well we drive all the way to Idaho fly out of base camp and standing around the fire talking and the guide starts talking about the wolves they’ve been catching in traps I thought oh crap, my odds of success just plummeted. Of all the questions a fellow could ask prior to the hunt, I never pondered to ask, “Are you trapping wolves”?
Well as luck would have it, or not, we spent 5 days tromping around in the snow never to even see a damn wolf track. Course I fully understand hunting is hunting and I also understand if an outfitter is trapping, well, that don’t help the success rate of paying customers. So, if you ever consider a hunt of sorts ask the fellow if he traps.