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Wolf/Wolverine Sightings
Posted by AlaskaTrueAdventure on Feb 28 2006
These targets of opportunity, wolf and wolverines, are always hoped for but seldom seen. But...
Personal hunts in AK for 17 years...wolverine- 2 sightings while hunting spring brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula. I called then in with a predator call just fooling around. Wolf-12 sightings, two separate packs of six in my favorite ram area! That was a tough year to find sheep and it took a week to find a legal ram, my elevinth. The next year, 2005, the wolves were gone, very few wolf prints were in the creek bottoms, and the rams returned and I had another ram harvested on the second day of the hunt.
Guided hunts mostly in western Alaska for the last 8 years...wolverine- 8 or 9 sighted, 1 harvested, 1 missed, 3 opportunities passed up. One client hunter passed because he was convinced the wolverine would not remain visible, but the wolverine dug out ground rodents of different sizes for three hours. One client hunters passed because he did not want to use a caribou tag. And while a wolverine was eating the remaines of a caribou kill, another passed because he was only concerning about finding a brown bear.
During one of these passed up opportunities I watched a wolvering through my spotting scope at only 400 yards off and on for more than four hours. During the time I watched it dug 23 holes on a hillside and made 23 rodents kills. It pulled a rodent out of every hole it dug for a 100% kill rate, which I thought was astonishing.
For the price of a wolf tag I advise client hunters to purchase one. I advise my hunters to tag wolverine with their caribou tag, because unit 17 caribou are gone anyway.
Dennis Byrne
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