Wolf chaps

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These are chaps made from wolf by one my fellow leathersmiths. Pretty darn cool and he also makes them from hair on elk and deer. See, wolves are good for somethings.....................

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We killed one the other day that had an 18 inch long patch of mange on its side and the whole belly was naked. The head, back and one side was not bad. Guy could use it for something like this, but for now that nasty ol mutt rots on the mountain.

Guy would not want to walk thru a patch of burs with those on, and I bet you might not get on my horse with them on! Other then those minor details that is a good use of a nasty mutt
 
We killed one the other day that had an 18 inch long patch of mange on its side and the whole belly was naked. The head, back and one side was not bad.

That's a shame. If it was sarcoptic mange it probably would have ended up being fatal. Ten years ago our coyotes started getting it and we quit shooting the infected ones so they would infect the others. It almost wiped them out. They are just now starting to recover but the last few months I've noticed several that still had it. The mites literally suck the blood out of them and their immune system crashes.
 
That's a shame. If it was sarcoptic mange it probably would have ended up being fatal. Ten years ago our coyotes started getting it and we quit shooting the infected ones so they would infect the others. It almost wiped them out. They are just now starting to recover but the last few months I've noticed several that still had it. The mites literally suck the blood out of them and their immune system crashes.

We did not know this particular wolf had mange.
I am not sure of the type of mange but she was fat! We kill the mange infested wolves because they are tough as hell and take a long time to die from mange, if they even do all die. I figure they have to kill something to stay alive and we need elk and deer numbers to rebound. We watched a nasty naked one last year thinking it would die and it just kept killing deer. Once the season is over I will post all our dead wolf pictures and stories. I do not want to send this thread off track, because it needs to stay on topic and start a world wide frenzy for everyone in the world to own wolf hide chinks!
 
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