Very often biologists and the state wildlife personnel do not know everything. Often some species is stated to be extinct and then they turn up alive and well. The problem with the remaining red wolf populations is that they hybridized with coyotes and also like with coydogs and coywolves that have canadian eastern grey wolf in them. There could pockets of them still in large forested swamp tracks. Whether it is wrong to shoot them is an issue that I am not sure about. If I know that they are red wolves of course I would let them go if they had not been causing me some problems. But when I see what looks like a coyote that is threat to my homestead, it dies.Me and Bruce has been lobbying a rather large land owner to allow us to hunt hogs and coyotes at night,using thermal.
Bruce told me that he was very "iffy" on targeting coyotes at night because they "could" be a red wolf.
How he knows or suspects this is unknown. --- SAWMAN
After three days of hard hunting The Mosquito Creek coyote tournament ended with this dog that weighed in at just over 49 pounds. They coyote was big enough to earn Denny McArdle a first place finish in a field of more than 3,000 hunters.
30 lb coyote can give a 70 lbs hound a good fight. A 50 lb coyote can whip most 80 lbs dogs. Coyotes are normally hunted by packs of dogs on a single coyote. But thing is coyotes attack single dogs in groups. Even a pack of dogs can be set upon by a larger pack of coyotes and be killed. The teeth on coyotes are bigger than a dog of equivalent weight and they kill for a living. Most dogs do not.would be interesting to know how many wolves were killed by 3K hunters during the hunt. 49 pounds is smaller than my house mutt.... if that's the largest one killed, must not be much of a problem in that area, I wouldn't think?
no doubt, I see a yote from time to time here and its pretty developed, Cantonment area. The yotes seem to pass through, I see them once on the trail cams, then don't see them again. mostly in the winter and early spring, young ones looking for their own territory. Not sure if you understood my comment on the size I mentioned. with a single 49 lb wolf, being killed, (at least that being the largest) I would like to think there would be a few other older, larger "Alpha's" in the area that was being hunted..... maybe 50 pounds is a large wolf for that area. I remember 100 plus pounders from Alaska, that took down the caribou and moose in and around Fairbanks... simply awesome creatures.
more details hereNoted naturalists documented wolf attacks on humans. John James Audubon, of whom the Audubon Society is named, reported an attack involving 2 Negroes. He records that the men were traveling through a part of Kentucky near the Ohio border in winter. Due to the wild animals in the area the men carried axes on their shoulders as a precaution. While traveling through a heavily forested area, they were attacked by a pack of wolves. Using their axes, they attempted to fight off the wolves. Both men were knocked to the ground and severely wounded. One man was killed. The other dropped his axe and escaped up a tree. There he spent the night. The next morning the man climbed down from the tree. The bones of his friend lay scattered on the snow. Three wolves lay dead. He gathered up the axes and returned home with the news of the event. This incident occurred about 1830. (Audubon, J.J., and Bachman, J.; The Quadrupeds of North America, 3 volumes. New York, 1851 -1854)
Here in NW Fla a 40lb coyote is pretty rare. I really do not understand why. They have plenty to eat and their target animals are available all year long.
As you go farther north they seem to get bigger. Most likely different genetics.
The coyotes that I have hunted in upstate NY as well as western NH are as large as the ones in Maine. --- SAWMAN
speaking of them passing through, here goes one, not sure when (within the past 2 weeks, checked the cams this morning) the dates on these cameras are all wrong.... may be sick and looking for a place to die, or losing its winter coat. I did see a mangy one a while back...