Pack of wolves in game camera, 1 mile from scene of confrontation, in 2019.
Posted on 02/26/2024 5:06:25 AM PST by marktwain
On February 8th, 2024, my brother had started his morning exercise walk. It was 6:27 am his time when I received the phone call; it was still dark in northern Wisconsin. It wasn’t what I expected.
Only 200 yards from his home, on a lonely country lane with dense forest and brush on both sides, he was confronting a pack of wolves, their reflective eyes easily visible in the beam of his headlamp. The pack of six was less than 30 yards away. Wolves are common in the area. Common and protected. The brush was fairly thick; the eyes were relatively low to the ground. It was clear what the animals were. Their behavior was alarming. He shouted. He made short rushes at them. They were not intimidated or alarmed. He had a Glock 23 and a spare magazine. He dropped my call and called his wife, only two hundred yards away. She arrived in a couple of minutes, bringing his 12 gauge tactical 870 with tac light forend and red dot sight, stoked with buckshot. As the vehicle approached, the wolves left. My brother said the feel of the 870 in his hands was comforting.
Just a few months ago, in 2023, a black wolf had closed to within 15 yards of the 15-year-old daughter of a close friend while she was hunting deer. The wolf had run off when Sarah turned around with her rifle. Her encounter happened only 300 yards from where my brother confronted the pack. He and I came across a road-killed young wolf in the fall of 2022, about a quarter mile in the opposite direction.
The picture of a pack of wolves from a game camera, taken in 2019, was taken about a mile from his home.
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Pack of wolves in game camera, 1 mile from scene of confrontation, in 2019.
As time progresses, more people will be killed by large predators in the United States. There was a reason our forefathers worked hard to rid the land of large predators. They are not fun to live with when you depend on production from the land to survive.
True words.
I feel so much better knowing that these animals are being reintroduced to the wilderness by insane biologists.
The people in the country are getting a glimpse of what living in the cities is like.
Gun or no gun this 85-second video of a cop in Russia as a wolf pack runs by illustrates how bad the odds are.
RUSSIAN COP JUMPS INTO CAR TO AVOID MARAUDING WOLVES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_pdTLZOOvM
The irony is that those same people:
1. Fight against 2A & abhor guns,
2. Gripe about feeling unsafe on their beloved nature hikes,
3. Live in denial of the effects of their leftist policies upon the urban poor - overwhelmingly the black population - and hypocritically avoid the danger posed by feral blacks by existing in their liberal urban bubble.
'Wolves' in one respect then becomes a metaphor.
I don’t suppose there’s a Cougar problem in North Wisconsin.
One would certainly hope not!
Loitering wolves are enough to deal with.
I am more concerned with wolves in Washington DC.
My grandmother grew up in rural Northern Wisconsin during the early 1920s. When we were kids, she liked to tell us a story about neighbors saving her from wolves which were closing in on her as she walked to school.
At that time a bounty was paid to hunters and trappers who brought in dead wolves in Northern Wisconsin. This was more because the wolves were considered a threat to livestock than children walking to school. Of course, as kids none of us appreciated the seriousness of the situation that our grandmother described to us.
“Common and protected.”
Protected? Not if they challenge me.
Archery Hunter Kills Mountain Lion in Self-Defense (In Wisconsin)
“Farley Mowat was a fabulist”
Mowat was a grand storyteller but he was full of shite, and I think there’s enough evidence out there to indicate that Mowat’s life adventures and experiences were fabrications, but his experiences in the Canadian wilderness gave authenticity to the ruse.
There is a reason wolves were wiped out in the US back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Soon we will have to learn that lesson all over again.
SSS(Shoot, Shovel, Shut up!)
Well, what do you know!
A lot of Wild Things still roaming the earth, only X number of miles from the nearest McDonald’s.
From an ancient farmer’s lament..
“I raise animals, the wolves destroy them.
When I defend my animals, I am arrested,
Because a GREAT MAN who is above raising animals,
Would be in need of wolves.”
Should have called the wife first thing instead of the brother.
Those wolves try to don sheeps’ clothing. Some fall for it, some don’t.
Lots of critters around here but haven’t seen a wolf. Thankfully, the wild hogs were eliminated. They’re dangerous especially digging in people’s yards.
But we learned from Little House on the Prairie, Season 4 Episode 5 that the wolves were falsely accused and that it was white people's dogs run amuck that caused all of the trouble. In the episode Laura Ingalls and friends were rehabilitating a poor mother wolf who was caught in an evil white person's trap and taking care of her pups. When their evil white neighbors found out, they wanted to kill the wolves. If you are an Amazon Prime customer, you can stream the episode from here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0CRSJB37K/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s4
Even in the 1970s we were being inundated with silly storylines on family shows.
You are correct. Wild animal attacks make the news.
A black bear breaking into a home and attacking a couple in Wisconsin makes the news.
A wolf defense shooting in Wisconsin makes the news.
An archery hunter having to shoot a mountain lion in self defense makes the news.
As these incidents increase and are reported, more people will arm themselves.
As they arm themselves, the number of incidents will rise. Then people will demand their legislatures act, and wolves and other predator numbers will be reduced.
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