Its turning out to be a bit difficult to find a wolf on purpose. Happenstance seems to provide better odds of success.
Broz, do you know how much it would cost a nonresident to purchase a wolf tag ? Would the ranchers let say a nonresident that would obey there rules come and shoot a wolf from there ranch ? or am I just dreaming ?
BigBuck
No I am not sure of non-res tags... you would need to look on the MT FWP site.
The problem getting permission on private might be that the season is also during big game season. So ranchers may not want you in there.
Jeff
Oh I can understand that . The reason i had mentioned the ranchers is because i figured they could tell you exactly were they have seen dead steer . I wonder if it would be legal to bait and hunt them . I can tell you how the cattle farmers would handle it were I'm from . But then again I would say the same way Montanas ranchers are probly already handling it
BB
+100%Everyone please be sure to keep the tag in your pocket and hunt. Lets hope this year the quota never gets filled. If it does we have to quit hunting wolves for the year and all wildlife looses if that happens. Please don't fill the quota. 186 wolves will never be missed in this country. At this point we must kill 3000-5000 wolves to even begin to make a dent in the massive wildlife losses we are seeing here. Moose are extinct now in areas that were thick with moose and that took 100 years and millions of dollars in restocking programs. Many areas that were full of elk and offered great hunting opportunities now do not hold huntable numbers of animals due directly to wolve predation and to a much lesser extent calf losses due to the explosion of grizzlies. The following is a direct quote from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Federal wildlife officials are perplexed because of the significant decline in bighorn sheep populations in the mountain ranges surrounding Yellowstone and Teton parks. We have ruled out wolf predation because our research indicates that wolves don't eat sheep". When we get this kind of ineptitude from the feds it forces good citizens to make the right choice and eliminate the problem.
Hunters much unite on one mission for the next few years to save what little remains of our western big game herds. It is called "Wolves SOS", shoot on site.
Why such a huge disconnect between the obvious/what's needed and the folks who study this stuff and set such low quotas???
One thing, this stuff is deadly to canine, so don't let your dog get into it or he will be a gonner too.